Kidnapping Mystery

For ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, it’s the beginning of his worst nightmare: a car abandoned on a desolate stretch of Oregon highway, engine running, purse on the driver’s seat. And his estranged wife, Rainie Conner, gone, leaving no clue to her fate. Did one of the ghosts from Rainie’s troubled past finally catch up with her? Or could her disappearance be the result of one of the cases they’d been working–a particularly vicious double homicide or the possible abuse of a deeply disturbed child Rainie took too close to heart?

A mystery book set in New York and Philadelphia during the early 20th century, "Sophia the Wild" plunges readers into a spellbinding journey of secrets, suspense, and self-discovery. This exhilarating narrative unfolds in the extravagant Stanford Johnson Mansion close to New York City and in Philadelphia's labyrinthine streets.Delve into the decadent world of the early 20th century, where industries blossom, airships grace the skies, and secrets rest in the parchment of scrolls and the corners of grand mansions. Synopsis The story follows Sophia, the adopted daughter of tycoon Stanford ...

Forty-two passengers. One of them is a serial killer. When Holly finds a phone with pictures of murdered women on it on the bus to Miami, she realizes that one of the passengers is a serial killer. A game of cat and mouse begins after the owner of the cell sends Holly a message saying that he wants his phone back. Holly's shocked to find out that the killer knows her name and address. She races against time as she and her fellow passenger Nick Hayden try to figure out the identity of the owner of the phone. When he murders a young woman during one of the stops, Holly fears he'll kill her ...

To solve a high-profile abduction, one former police officer must confront a dark past. A child's abduction reveals a frightening pattern within a small town where nothing is as it seems. Katy Dowry's world shatters when her son, Denny, is abducted from his school. Amidst heavy snowfall and rising tensions, Katy uncovers a web of secrets involving the disappearance of the child.

In a small town in NC, an abduction was being planned. There was a time when children could play outside, go to a movie, or shop at the local mall. Times had changed, and one family desperately hoped their thirteen-year-old daughter would be found. By sending in his DNA, Ally Malcom’s employer, Gene Talbot, discovered a cousin he didn’t know he had. Through this act, he was in contact with several cousins he never knew he had. One of them, Trent Williams, was facing a parent's worst nightmare: their child was abducted. Gene had no idea he had employed an undercover FBI agent. Eliza ...

Super thief Riley Wolfe can do it all. He is a master of disguise, can scale a wall, and can vanish into thin air (thick air, too). He uses these unique talents to rob the richest. But this time, it’s the most powerful who have him in their grips.

Sleeping Beauties When the daughter of a prominent businessman and a wealthy debutante vanishes, Reese Lindley returns to her hometown to cover the case for her podcast. Confronted by the past and her estranged family, Reese learns that the quiet town has more secrets to hide than she ever could have imagined. The Professor When Nicole Costello’s boyfriend is kidnapped by a notorious secret society, she finds herself infiltrating the inner workings of the society itself in order to save him. In a race against the clock, Nicole uncovers the dark secrets of her parents’ pasts, but can she...

Book #9 of the Jab Boone Murder Mystery Series Jab’s town turns against him after his student trackers discover twenty dead girls were—drug-lord daughters of the Huerta Cartel! Soon the School Board fires Jab which splits the town wide open. But Jab isn’t convinced the Cartel is responsible for the subsequent reprisals. He feels the town—and the FBI are locked with tunnel vision. Jab’s determined to find the truth—and clear his name!

Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler, first introduced in The Various Haunts of Men, is on a painting holiday in Venice when he is summoned home by a telephone call. He has family problems to face, and the stress and grind of running a busy police station. When a little boy is snatched as he stands with his satchel at the gate of his home, waiting for his lift to school, an ordinary community realises that terror and evil are in their very midst.

When homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are called to a crime scene in a heavily-wooded city park, the setting is all too familiar. And when they discover a playing card on the victim's body, their worst fears are confirmed: There's a serial killer operating in the city for the first time in years. As the violence accelerates in Minneapolis, Magozzi and Rolseth soon realize their killer is planning to complete the deck, and they enlist Grace MacBride and her unconventional partners at Monkeewrench Software to help stop the rampage.

Emily Brown, a six-year police veteran, upends her life in California after her ex-husband moves himself and their eight-year-old daughter, Amelia, to a small, rural town in Beaker Point, North Dakota. But before Emily can unpack her suitcase, accusations fly when their daughter goes missing. With Emily pinned as the main suspect in her daughter’s disappearance, she must uncover the truth this small town has kept hidden before it claims another child.

Be careful exposing secrets—it could cost you everything. A bond between two sisters might be the key to uncovering the truth. Emma never expected the nightly news to bring her sister, Scarlett, a well-known Dallas journalist, back into her life—let alone announce she’d been missing for three weeks. Estranged for over six years following a family tragedy, Emma is determined to bridge the gap and help find Scarlett before it’s too late. Partnering with Jackson, the lead detective on the case, Emma discovers that the key to uncovering Scarlett’s whereabouts lies in her missing ...

James was handsome, successful, wealthy. Lucy was besotted. When he offered her an all-expenses paid trip to a luxury lodge in an isolated part of New Zealand's beautiful Marlborough Sounds, she didn't hesitate. This decision would test her survival skills to the limit and open her eyes to a world she never knew existed.

Blindness hasn't held her back...But it could get her killed. Syd Shaeffer used to be so much: career-driven and fearless, a stellar New York District Attorney, and fiancée to love of her life, Frank Spinelli. A viral eye infection changed all that. Now she's blind and runs a failing law practice out in the burbs. But when Frank goes missing in New Zealand and the ransom note tells his mother not to call the police, Syd may be the only one who can find him. Is Syd driven by honor? Or is she trying to prove that she's still good enough? And when the first dead body turns up, can she unravel...

Sixteen-year-old Patricia Columbo began working for pharmacist Frank DeLuca, a married father of five, in the 1970s, and the two soon entered into a sexual relationship. Against her father's wishes, Patricia and Frank moved in together. Then, in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, Patricia's father was brutally murdered, along with her mother and 13-year-old brother. Police were suspicious of Patricia's strange behavior after the bodies were discovered, and following their investigation, they arrested both Patricia and Frank.

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.”

You can’t keep the past buried forever… When private investigator Nikki Garcia comes to New Mexico, raging wildfires in the nearby mountains force her and her family to evacuate. In the ensuing chaos, people close to her, including her husband, mysteriously disappear. Join Nikki as she races across the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and the Colorado prairie in a desperate attempt to save her loved ones. Her search unearths decades-old secrets and an international spy network that will stop at nothing to steal secrets from the heart of Cheyenne Mountain. As she navigates treacherous terrain ...

Ten years ago, I was seventeen, spending summers with my wealthy family, and friends on Hawk Island. One terrible night, I blacked out. The next morning, my best friend, Melanie, was gone—vanished without a trace. Today, I go back. To the island. To my sister's wedding. To a group of privileged people with whom I've never belonged. To secrets that someone will kill to keep. A storm is coming. A storm that could allow a kidnapper to escape, or a killer to murder again, and reveal the true faces of All the Pretty People.

What drives someone to murder? Logan McRae's personal history is hardly squeaky clean, but now that he works for Professional Standards he's policing his fellow officers. When Detective Inspector Bell turns up dead in the drivers seat of a crashed car, it's a shock to everyone. Because Bell died two years ago. They buried him. Or they thought they did. As an investigation is launched into Bell's stabbing, Logan digs into his past. Where has he been all this time? Why did he disappear? And what's so important that he felt the need to come back from the dead?

The inhabitants of cell blocks Delta, Gamma, and Bravo had a choice: Life in prison or freedom on an alien planet. Freedom. Ha. Right. Being the concubine of an alien is hardly freedom. But still, that was a better deal than serving life in prison on Earth. That’s what Bianca thought. Until their spaceship was in a collision with a pirate spaceship. Until the captain of that pirate ship turned out to be a hunk. A hunk with a cause, and a whole lot of sexiness to boot.