Kidnapping Mystery

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?

The constant threat of terrorism has left London under round-the-clock surveillance and in the tightening grip of privatised security firms. Journalist Antonia Conti suspects one such organisation—GRM—not only of being behind several women’s disappearances, but of financing the widespread violence it claims to fight. When a gang of hitmen use rampant state surveillance to track Antonia down, she narrowly escapes with her life. But then one of them turns up dead—covered in her DNA—and Antonia finds herself the prime suspect in his murder.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Rachel Benson thought her life was on track with a successful career in PR and a long-term relationship with a nice guy. When they meet for post-work drinks and dinner, she has no way of knowing that a series of seemingly insignificant decisions will send her down a terrifying path. Now she finds herself in the back of a stolen car with three violent strangers, not knowing where she's been taken or what's going to happen to her. She's in a fight for her life, trying to escape her captives and deny the changes she can feel happening to herself as she is led on a crime spree across three states.

On February 2, 1963, a tanker with 39 men aboard departed Beaumont and never returned. In the mid-spring of 1882, Billy the Kid's friend, foe, and equal escaped Huntsville Penitentiary and vanished. On December 9, 1961, a young boy in Wichita Falls disappeared without a trace. On November 18, 1936, a father and son were swallowed by a Walled Kingdom. On December 23, 1974, three girls went to a Fort Worth mall and were never seen or heard from again. This collection explores 20 baffling disappearances that investigators have studied for decades, to no avail.

Der 3. Fall für Eddie Flynn von Steve Cavanagh ("Thirteen"). Leonard Howells schlimmster Albtraum ist Realität: Seine Tochter Caroline wurde entführt und dabei schwer verletzt. Zwar schaltet Howell die Polizei ein, doch nur einem Mann traut er wirklich zu, Caroline zu retten: Eddie Flynn. Eddie weiß, wie es ist, eine Tochter zu verlieren. Und er schwört, Caroline sicher nach Hause zu bringen. Als ehemaliger Betrüger und jetziger Spitzenanwalt kennt Flynn alle Tricks, mit denen man seine Gegner hinters Licht führen kann.

Der 3. Fall für Eddie Flynn von Steve Cavanagh ("Thirteen"). Leonard Howells schlimmster Albtraum ist Realität: Seine Tochter Caroline wurde entführt und dabei schwer verletzt. Zwar schaltet Howell die Polizei ein, doch nur einem Mann traut er wirklich zu, Caroline zu retten: Eddie Flynn. Eddie weiß, wie es ist, eine Tochter zu verlieren. Und er schwört, Caroline sicher nach Hause zu bringen. Als ehemaliger Betrüger und jetziger Spitzenanwalt kennt Flynn alle Tricks, mit denen man seine Gegner hinters Licht führen kann.

Quantum physicist Matt Bronik is suffering from strange, violent seizures that medical science seems powerless to explain - much to the consternation of his wife, Brigid. Matt doesn't think these fits could be related to his research, which he has always described as benign and esoteric. That, it turns out, is not quite true: Matt has been prodding the mysteries of the quantum universe, with terrible repercussions for his health. And perhaps even for humanity as a whole.

Sam Capra is a brilliant young CIA agent. His wife Lucy is seven months pregnant with their first child. They are deeply in love. They have everything they could hope for...until they lose it all in one horrifying moment. Sam receives a call from Lucy while he's at work. She tells him to leave the building immediately. He does...just before it explodes, killing everyone inside. Lucy vanishes, and Sam wakes up in a prison cell. As the lone survivor of the attack, he is branded by the CIA as a murderer and a traitor. Escaping from the agency, Sam launches into a desperate hunt....

When the granddaughter of one of Florida’s most powerful judges disappears, it triggers a personal trauma for Detective Alice Garner: the kidnapping and murder of her own child. As a flood of painful memories comes rushing back, Alice sees herself in the guilt-ridden and emotionally fragile mother Charlotte Burke, who has become the target of a rush to judgment.

When NYPD undercover cop Laney Bird's cover is blown in a racketeering case against the Russian mob, she flees the city with her troubled son, Alfie. Now, three years later, she's found the perfect haven in Sylvan, a charming town in upstate New York. But then the unthinkable happens: Her boy vanishes. Local law enforcement dismisses the 13-year-old as a runaway, but Laney knows better.