Kidnapping Thriller

An unputdownable Small Town Kidnapping Mystery Boxset with a brilliant twist! When a child disappears from a winter hiking trip in the woods, a retired detective is forced to confront the past he thought he'd left behind. When a child disappears from a winter hiking trip in the woods, local police believe the child wandered off and got lost. Extensive search parties return from the woods empty-handed. The child has vanished into thin air. No footprints in the snow. Nothing.

Salem Wiley is a genius cryptanalyst. She’s also a loner who prefers a safe and familiar path. Until her mother disappears in the wake of a brutal murder, leaving behind a cryptic warning of threats to come. Forced out of her safe zone, Salem embarks with her best friend, Bel, on a dangerous quest that reaches back centuries into America’s hidden history.

Uprowadzona Wioleta dostaje ultimatum. Może odzyskać wolność, ale musi liczyć się z tym, że groźny gangster Massimo nie spocznie, dopóki nie uciszy jej na zawsze. Widziała zbyt wiele i słyszała za dużo, by mogła liczyć na spokojne życie. Może też wziąć udział w akcji, której celem jest pozbycie się Massimo. Czy kobieta znajdzie w sobie odwagę, by z ofiary przeobrazić się w myśliwego? I czy śmiałe decyzje przyniosą jej ratunek, czy okażą się gwoździem do trumny?

“Deliciously vicious and unsettlingly hilarious, Cruelty Free is a nasty, thrilling Hollywood take-down for the ages.” —JENNIFER THORNE, author of Diavola A disgraced movie star returns to Hollywood 10 years after the kidnapping of her young daughter intent on seeking revenge, for fans of...

The disappearance of two children leaves a small Florida town in disarray. A suspect remains at large, and investigators are baffled by conflicting evidence and anonymous calls to the police station by their alleged kidnapper. With Halloween approaching, two detectives find themselves racing against the clock to find the children before it’s too late. They soon realize they are dealing with a madman who has plotted his vengeance against the town for years, determined to carry out his plans to the fullest.

Luke's week in the mountains goes from pleasure to business in an instant when he is called upon to help find two teenage boys–one the son of a multi-millionaire Starbucks VIP–who have been abducted at gunpoint during a wilderness survival school expedition. Their captors and the foreigners calling the shots behind the scenes are desperate for their ransom money and willing to do almost anything to get it.

'Pyromanen - Rache' ist ein unvorhersehbarer und düsterer Kriminalroman und der dritte Teil der Brandstifter-Serie von Inger Wolf.

She lives in a utopian town, where nothing bad ever happens. But when officers Zachary Leebow and Annalise Baker are invited to join a new special-task team, the Smoky Mountain Investigative Force, their lives become even more intertwined than before. With everything around them changing and an unnamed body on their hands, they must decipher the clues to their individual cases, before kidnapping turns into murder.

What happened to Mallory Shubert? Two detectives, both coming off of recent tragedies, are forcibly paired together to recover a missing child. But as they pull back the layers of the case, they discover more secrets, more lies, and more trouble than either are prepared to face. It’s a race to find the missing girl before time expires, but the detectives must overcome their personal trauma in order to succeed. The Girl in the Tide Mysterious. Fraudulent. Deadly.

Ein grandioser, wuchtiger und emotionaler Gesellschaftsroman – das intensivste Hörerlebnis des Jahres! Der neue Roman von SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Autor Chris Whitaker ist ein Meisterwerk: zugleich aufwühlender Kriminalfall und dramatische Liebesgeschichte. Patch ist dreizehn, und weil er nur ein Auge hat, trägt er eine Augenklappe wie ein Pirat. Als er eines Tages aus seiner Heimatstadt Monta Clare entführt wird, bricht für seine beste Freundin Saint die Welt zusammen.

Both shocking and spellbinding, The Victim Donor tells the suspenseful story of a family man who struggles to discover why he has become the focus of a gruesome kidnapping plot. Stockbroker John Harris III is living the American dream with Cheryl, his physician wife and college sweetheart. They have four young children, a house in the mountains of Utah, health, love, and money. But their lives are suddenly turned upside-down when Harris is mysteriously kidnapped one morning on his way to work.

Eine Serie perfekt inszenierter Entführungen bekannter Personen hält England in Atem und die Ermittler Bush und Grandison kommen nicht voran. Jetzt sollen sie das jüngste Opfer des Kidnappers "Trader", den Erzbischof von Salisbury, befreien – ohne öffentliches Aufsehen. Diskret sollen auch die Nachforschungen von Madame Blanche verlaufen, denn Mrs. Rainbird ist sich nicht sicher, ob der uneheliche Sohn ihrer verstorbenen Schwester Harriet und einzige Erbe ihres beträchtlichen Vermögens, auch ausreichend Seriosität für die gediegene Familie mitbringt.

En avril 2022, Alexis Jourdan, trois ans et demi, autiste, fils du riche promoteur Éric Jourdan, disparaît au lac de Peiroou en présence de sa mère. L'affaire médiatisée secoue la petite ville de Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Détaché de la capitale en renfort, Jésus Cortès, un capitaine originaire de la région, reprend l'enquête accompagné par Ana Rey, une recrue hyper connectée.

Working for the FBI, cryptanalyst and agoraphobe Salem Wiley vows never to return to the conspiratorial underworld her mother revealed to her. Until fieldwork draws Salem to an Ireland farm where a curious discovery has been unearthed: a near-perfect replica of Stonehenge in miniature—except for one extra stone engraved with the word mercy. When seven-year-old Mercy Mayfair, a child in Salem’s family’s care, is kidnapped, Salem knows it’s more than an unsettling coincidence.

Few marriages survive what Sadie and Allen Wilson’s did. They were lucky—they had each other, and their kidnapped daughter was found, unharmed. Now, just as their lives are getting back to normal, their neighbor turns up dead. Murdered. And Sadie feels the panic surge all over again. But this time, she won’t have her husband to lean on…because Allen’s disappeared. As Sadie and the police try to piece together what happened, she begins to wonder if she ever knew her husband at all. The lies keep piling up, along with the body count.

The disappearances of two girls within the span of a week thrusts a small town into panic.

Инспектор Скотленд-Ярда Алан Грант всегда с осторожностью относился к писателям и журналистам, — однако не сумел отклонить приглашение Лавинии Фитч в приморскую деревушку, облюбованную лондонской богемой. Очень скоро мирный, хотя и скучноватый отдых прерывает таинственное преступление. Бесследно исчезает красавец фотограф Лесли Сирл — и местная полиция тут же обвиняет в убийстве молодого радиоведущего Уолтера Уитмора. На первый взгляд, с выводами провинциальных служителей закона трудно поспорить.

September Day’s new Family complicates her world. Ashamed, but resolved to set right their wrongs, she’s determined to dismantle the sinister crime syndicate before her cop fiancé discovers the tainted relationship.

When a past trafficking victim confronts her and demands immediate justice, she’s mortified with guilt. Outraged her loved ones are also taken by the killer, September agrees to the ransom. She relies on her German Shepherd Shadow to locate the missing but must reluctantly accept help from her new untrustworthy “Family.”

Isabel Flores genießt ihren Cortado in der Bar Castell im malerischen Dorf Sant Martí, als der friedliche Sommertag jäh durch eine Schreckensnachricht verdunkelt wird: Ein kleines Mädchen ist verschwunden, am Strand entführt, und Polizeichef Tolo Cabot bittet seine ehemalige Kollegin Isabel um Hilfe. Als Ermittlerin war sie berühmt für ihren scharfen Verstand und ihre beinahe unheimliche Intuition, doch nun beginnt ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit.

Ein Mädchen verschwindet - und niemand hat etwas gesehen. Daisy, die achtjährige Tochter der Masons, verschwindet bei einer Party spurlos vom Grundstück der Eltern. Sofort beginnt die Polizei mit den Ermittlungen. Partygäste, Nachbarn, Mitschülerinnen - jeder scheint verdächtig, aber nirgends findet sich eine Spur des Mädchens. Detective Inspector Adam Fawley gerät in ein Netz aus Widersprüchen und Beschuldigungen, doch das Mädchen bleibt verschwunden. Erst als er weiter zurückgeht in die Vergangenheit der Familie, scheint sich ein düsteres Geheimnis zu offenbaren.