Kidnapping Mystery

When he wakes in a pitch-black room with his hands bound, Roland Britten – accountant and champion steeplechase jockey – knows he’s entered a nightmare of someone else’s making. Wracking his brain to figure out who’s out to get him and why, he comes up empty, but somehow manages a death-defying escape. It isn’t long, though, before he’s recaptured.

In 2004, five high school girls disappeared from the rainy town of Doveport, Oregon. Only one of them made it home alive, but it wasn’t the FBI who found her. It was Bex Lennon, a seemingly insignificant 15-year-old girl. Fifteen years later, Bex returns to Doveport to discover that it’s happening again.

Dash Bellmont swore never to fall in love again; one broken heart was more than enough. He didn’t expect someone to challenge that promise. When he receives an email threatening his brother, he decides to use his special skills to find the bastard who sent it. After all, he did get his Delta Force nickname, Rebel, by not following the rules. Sometimes, that’s what it took to save lives. Evie was the definition of the girl next door... until her sister went missing. Now, she spends her time with drug addicts and the homeless, hoping to hear about anything that might lead to her sister. ...

A boy’s disappearance in the small town of Deerfield, CT, stokes distrust and resentment from its residents. Each local he interviews harbors a hidden agenda, keeping long-hidden secrets close to their chests. With trust in short supply, Sheriff Sean Callahan struggles to find answers to the child’s whereabouts, but every new secret he uncovers leads him closer to a horrifying truth.

From hard-hitting New York Daily News columnist Linda Stasi comes Book of Judas, a riveting religious thriller featuring beloved protagonist Alessandra Russo. When her infant son is placed in mortal danger, New York reporter Alessandra Russo is forced to save him by tracking down the missing pages of the Gospel of Judas, a heretical manuscript that was unearthed in Egypt in the 1970s. Do the lost pages contain a secret that will challenge Christianity's core beliefs about the creation of life, or that might hold the power to unleash Armageddon?

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.

The half-mad explorer Dante Caruso swears he’s found a fabled Russian relic called the Amber Room, and he’s attracting the wrong kind of attention. A ruthless team of Ukrainian relic hunters called R24 has kidnapped him and his family; they want to know where the Amber Room is - and they’ll spill blood to find it. Nobody knows treasure hunting like Guy Bodie and his crew. But abduction is the last thing they expect.

DCI Matilda Darke has been kidnapped and her nemesis, Steve Harrison, appears to be behind it. He’s currently residing in the supermax of Wakefield Prison and spends twenty-three hours a day in his cell, so how could he possibly be responsible? As Matilda’s team race to find her, they’re alerted to a body found in an abandoned car on the outskirts of Sheffield. With forensics scouring the woodland for clues, the last thing they expect is for the body count to rise. Meanwhile the search intensifies for the DCI when a video of her kidnapping is leaked to the media.

Tim McAndrews, a top Seattle prosecutor, has his near-perfect case record unjustly tarnished by a self-defense shooting and fears his career as an assistant district attorney is doomed to go nowhere. It's not all bad, though. Legendary FBI Profiler, Elias Cain has offered a job with his team. As he weighs his options for the future, Tim is fortified by the fact that he saved his wife and lover, the beautiful Daniela St. Clair, from death at the hands of a serial killer. Tim takes a much-needed ski vacation with his wife and best friends to Schweitzer Mountain Ski Resort. When a young girl ...

Alex Rider is a struggling detective with a career-ending secret, but she puts everything at risk when she tracks a homicide suspect to a luxury cruise liner, only to get trapped on board with the killer. Will Alex put the murderer behind bars or will she become a victim herself?

Heather Clemens never thought that life would turn out like this. Single, alone, and stuck fortune telling out of her house for a meager living, Heather could really use some good news. So she does what she vowed never to do: Read her own fortune. What she sees is shocking and impossible… but that’s when the impossible happens, and Heather finds herself looking into the eyes of Rhys Vandell, a fierce and sexy warrior prince from another world. Heather is his fated prize, the key to completing his rite of passage and earning his royal birthright: the power of the dragon shift. Now, ...

One unusually sultry spring night, Jane is woken by a scream from the nursery - and rushes in to find the Tyler children's nanny murdered and the carefully locked window flung open.

Hiding is no longer acceptable…she needed answers…but answers alone might not be enough…and they could prove deadly…there were no more secrets…they could be deadly too… Mick Johnson might be dead but his killer is unknown and the clues leading to them are non-existent. Completely non-existent…which according to Jackson never ever happens…then he finds one but how does he tell Simon… But Elijah Sullivan, the father she adored all her life left clues…she just has to unravel them even as she comes to terms with her feelings about Harper…and his for her. It’s the middle ...

Beware of Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing! When Max Harmon took the detective job in Rohm, he figured it was a nice little all-American town and a great place to spend his days until retirement. Boy, was he wrong! When a hitman comes to Rohm and assumes the role of the parish priest, something just doesn’t seem right. When everything you do is an uphill battle, sometimes the wise person reaches a point where enough is enough. As Max stands at a crossroads, he is faced with the daunting task of deciding to stay with the friends and colleagues he has taken him in, and face the continued Good ...

Everyone has a past, and everyone has secrets, no more so than Annie Munroe. In the quiet town of Pineville, Annie Munroe escapes from a thirty-year captivity, igniting a desperate search for her sadistic abductor. Meanwhile, three teenage friends, after witnessing their friend's abduction, team up with a retired detective haunted by the town's dark secrets. Together, they race against time to unravel a web of hidden horrors and bring the monstrous kidnapper to justice. With every twist and turn, the small town's facade crumbles, revealing a chilling past that refuses to stay buried.

A woman goes missing. Her car is discovered in the Australian Outback, burnt out but there is no body. Her husband, her son and the local gigolo are all suspects but the case comes to a dead end then Police Constable Elizabeth West is bound, gaged and abducted by a ruthless killer. Can Detective Bigfoot save her? 'Deadly serious and laugh out loud funny.' Revised and Rewritten.

"Don't kill her. She's no good to us dead." These words haunt Jane MacGuire after a shocking attack shatters her world in an instant. Was it a random kidnapping attempt, or the countdown to something far more sinister?

Not much happens in Deerfield, Connecticut. The sleepy little town nestled at the foot of Taconic Range near two pristine lakes is the stuff of Hallmark movies. Picturesque town square, friendly neighbors, the changing seasons… but Deerfield’s small-town charm will lose its allure after a girl goes missing.

When Dana Simmons was ten years old, her mother disappeared. Twenty years later, with a successful modeling career, Dana faces another loss after her father dies of lung cancer. She soon discovers her mother might still be alive and harbors a secret that could endanger Dana. As she searches for answers, Dana rallies through a deadly chase which lands her in the Witness Protection Program. Although the program promises to protect her, they strip away her career, her home, and her identity hoping she would never look back. Determined to find closure, Dana is left with a choice that could ...

Rejected by the Navy SEALs, Mitchum is content to be his small town's unofficial private eye until his beloved 14-year-old cousin is abducted. Now he'll call on every lethal skill to track her down - but nothing is what it seems.