Kidnapping Mystery

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.

Jenna, una joven de diecisiete años, desaparece de Mount Chester en un caluroso día de verano. Poco después, se descubre su cadáver en las remotas montañas de Wildfire Ridge. La detective Kay Sharp se apresura a llegar al lugar, recorriendo kilómetros hasta la base de la cumbre. Por las marcas que presenta el cuerpo de Jenna, está claro que fue brutalmente violada antes de ser asesinada.

Als Philipp Greenbush an einem Sommerabend die anonyme Nachricht erreicht, dass seine Ehefrau und seine kleine Tochter entführt wurden, beginnt für ihn ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Den Entführer kennt Philipp ganz genau: Es ist der schwarze Jerome Williams, sein ehemals bester Freund, der für den brutalen Akt, der sich damals in den Sümpfen Louisianas abgespielt hat, zu einer 25-jährigen Haftstrafe verurteilt worden war. All die Jahre hat Philipp geglaubt, ruhig leben und endlich vergessen zu können, muss nun aber, um die Forderungen des Entführers zu erfüllen, an jenen grausamen Ort zurückkehren, den er niemals wieder betreten wollte.

Saskia Frost’s world is blown apart when her dad dies. Without any family, she’s on her own now and up to her eyeballs in her father’s debts. He owed a lot of money to some very dangerous men – Joshua and Vincent Harper.

When a baby is kidnapped in broad daylight with no witnesses, an otherwise sleepy suburb is rocked by scandal and ten-year-old Flora Lanyon is terrified. Decades later, Flora takes a job as a live-in carer for elderly couple, Agnes and Abraham, moving into the decrepit watermill where they live. As strange and unexplainable occurrences start to happen, Flora grows increasingly suspicious. What dark secrets are hiding in the house? Is Flora safe there? And can she unearth the truth before the past catches up with the present?

Thirty-three years ago two little girls disappeared from a notorious run-down neighborhood in south London. One was found dead within a few days; the body of the other was never discovered. Today, the man convicted of murder three decades ago is back on the streets, and another girl vanishes. Hard-nosed investigative journalist Angela Tate reported on the old case and is back to cover the new story, determined to persuade the mother of the missing girl, Trisha Collins, to reveal a secret she’s been keeping about the original killing. But Trisha is terrified and refuses to talk.

Blind music teacher Emily Warner regains her eyesight through a transplant. But her newfound vision catapults her into danger. As she begins to investigate the strange things she sees, she realizes the visions she has belong to her cornea donor - and that her donor’s death was no accident. When she decides to prove that her donor was murdered, she draws the attention of the killer onto herself. But no matter the danger she’s putting herself in, she has to expose him, before another young girl dies, and before Emily becomes his next victim.

Situated in Northern California, Yuba County boasts vast wilderness, rugged terrain, and close-knit communities. However, the families of five local individuals were left to grapple with the heart-wrenching mystery of their sudden disappearance on a cold winter night in 1978. Even now, the mystery remains unsolved. On the night they went missing, Bill Sterling, Jack Madruga, Jack Huett, Ted Weiher, and Gary Mathias were affectionately known as "the boys."

De brute ontvoering van mediamagnaat Berndt Müller zet heel Zweden op zijn kop. Zijn vrouw en dochters zijn wanhopig en gaan, tegen het advies van de politie in, met de ontvoerders in gesprek. Maar wanneer ze het geëiste losgeld betalen, verandert er niets; Berndt blijft spoorloos. Als blijkt dat de ontvoerders allen hun eigen redenen hebben voor het misdrijf, slaat de vlam in de pan. Intussen ontdekt een klein meisje dat Berndt wordt vastgehouden op een onbewoond eiland voor de kust van Göteborg. Even lijkt zijn redding nabij, maar dan blijkt dat het meisje net zo gevangen zit als hij.

It is June 1995 in Sydney, Australia. Detective Chief Inspector Martin Janson is investigating a heinous crime: a small boy is missing. It appears random and motiveless. Janson is frustrated due to there being no witnesses and few clues.

Eleven-year-old Smiley was taken. He lived at the mission school where he was reconditioned. Smiley will tell you his story, how he lived and how he died. Francis Malachi Pratt, the mission school superintendent, had a deviant hunger.

Alex gets a call no parent should ever receive. A dagger to her heart. But she can't afford to stop. Forced to carry out the wishes of the captors, Alex is threatened at every turn. It defiles her, but she'll do anything to get her daughter back. Will it work?

Mandy Rose...vulnerable, scared, clearly in big trouble. No match for the men who would do her harm. All her money and status don’t matter in dark and dangerous New Orleans. Yet here she is...and all alone.

When 15-year-old Abby Lang disappears in the dead of night, Seattle Police Detective Jayne Moore is assigned to the case. Within days, it becomes clear Abby was lured by an online predator calling himself “Shyboy".

Mit dem Muttersein sind zwei Gefühle untrennbar verbunden: die bedingungslose Liebe zu einem Kind und die Angst, es zu verlieren. Isabel liebt ihre sechs Monate alte Tochter Leonie abgöttisch. So sehr, dass alles andere unwichtig wird. Als Leonie am helllichten Tag spurlos verschwindet, wächst Isabels Angst um sie ins Unermessliche. Auf der Suche nach ihrer Tochter offenbart sich ihr eine Wahrheit, von der sie lieber nichts gewusst hätte. Ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit beginnt.

Salem is a private investigator hired to find a young girl abducted from her school in the middle of the school day. Local authorities have had zero leads and no good suspects for months and have hit a dead-end. Salem has his own theory, but it leads down a much darker path than he anything the local police could imagine or are equipped to deal with. His investigation is nearly cut short before it could really get underway, when on his first night in town, he finds himself trapped at the beginning of a murder investigation; the killer working very hard to make sure he's the prime suspect.

Reminiscent of the best in today's suspense, from Jeffery Deaver's roller-coaster twists to James Patterson's cinematic pacing, Run the Risk introduces a blazing new talent in Scott Frost. As one of the writers behind Twin Peaks and The X-Files, he knows something about creating eerie and atmospheric tension. In this brilliant novel, he gives us a heroine who faces a challenge no one can ever be completely prepared for and a story as urgently and viscerally told as any in recent memory.

It has been two decades since Detective Francis X. Loughlin solved his first big case, the brutal murder of a woman doctor. The young man convicted of the killing, Julian Vega, is back on the streets now, released on a technicality after years of appeals. Not long after his release, another murder takes place, one so similar to that long-ago case that Julian is the first suspect in Detective Loughlin's sights.

National parks are a place for family fun, camping, and adventure. Millions of Americans and foreign tourists flock to national parks around the globe each year. But for some, they go through the entrance, never to come out again.

A scream in the night wakes Private Investigators Troy and Eva Winters from a sound sleep during their well-anticipated vacation in a posh hotel along the Columbia River Gorge. Guns drawn, they run next door only to find the young girl Eva had befriended earlier is missing, and her mother dead.