Kidnapping Thriller

One unbearable mistake at the edge of the forest. In a moment of crisis, Ellis Abbey leaves her daughter, Viola, unattended - for just a few minutes. But when she returns, Viola is gone. A breaking point in an already fractured marriage, Viola’s abduction causes Ellis to disappear as well - into grief, guilt, and addiction. Convinced she can only do more harm to her family, Ellis leaves her husband and young sons, burying her desperate ache for her children deeper with every step into the mountain wildernesses she treks alone.

It was a crime so brutal, it changed the lives of even the most hardened homicide cops. The Haas family murders left a scar on the community nothing can erase, but everyone agrees that convicting the killer, Karl Dahl, is a start. Only Judge Carey Moore seems to be standing in the way. Her ruling that Dahl's prior criminal record is inadmissible raises a public outcry, and puts the judge in grave danger.

John Wells may have left the CIA, but it hasn't left him. A mysterious call brings a surprise meeting with the aged monarch of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah. "My kingdom is on a precipice," he tells Wells. "Powerful factions are plotting against me, and my own family is in danger. I don't know who I can trust, but I'm told I can trust you."

Rushing back to her seat, Makayla Rossi is relieved that all’s still quiet. But when she checks on her sleeping baby, relief morphs into fear. The bassinet is empty. Liam is gone. It was a long flight from Anchorage to New York, and with every flight attendant busy, Makayla reluctantly ran to the restroom, asking a seat neighbor to watch her son. She stepped away for just a few minutes. Yet at thirty thousand feet, he still vanished.

Marc Seidman awakens to find himself in an ICU, hooked up to an IV, his head swathed in bandages. Twelve days earlier, he had had an enviable life as a successful surgeon, living in a peaceful suburban neighborhood with his beautiful wife and a baby he adored. Now he lies in a hospital bed, shot by an unseen assailant. His wife has been killed, and his 6-month-old daughter, Tara, has vanished. But just when his world seems forever shattered, something arrives to give Marc a new hope: a ransom note.

Target: Dr. Kiana Avesta. Profile: Nuclear scientist. Mission: Extract and protect. Ethan Galaal and his team are sent to Iran to extract a nuclear scientist who has made a discovery that could transform uranium production. When a rival force arrives to take her out, things take a turn for the worse. A game of cat and mouse ensues as Ethan and his team move the scientist across Europe in a bid to save her. But no place is safe. The pursuers can’t be lost. When one of their own is captured, Ethan must make a choice. Give up the scientist or abandon his teammate to certain death. What would...

At first glance, Jellicoe Close seems to be a perfect suburban street – well-kept houses with pristine lawns, neighbours chatting over garden fences, children playing together. But there are dark secrets behind the neat front doors, hidden dangers that include a ruthless criminal who will stop at nothing. It’s up to DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent to uncover the truth. Posing as a couple, they move into the Close, blurring the lines between professional and personal as never before.

Deeper than the Dead introduced Tami Hoag's millions of fans to Oak Knoll, a small California town that, in the mid-eighties, seemed as idyllic as any . . . until the See-No-Evil killer shattered that notion. It took FBI agent Vince Leone and a new technique called profiling" to put an end to the trauma. Now Hoag returns once more to Oak Knoll for the third installment of this best-selling series.

Overthrow a government. Destabilize the world. And it all starts with a single murder. From Kenneth R. Overman, award-winning author of the Nathan Radcliff Thriller series, comes a heart-pounding international suspense novel where history, power, and terror collide on the edge of Europe and the Middle East. When the president of a small island bank is found dead under suspicious circumstances, Professor Nathan Radcliff is pulled back into a world of secrets and shadows. The murder points to a treasure buried beneath an ancient graveyard near Istanbul, hidden since 330 A.D. and powerful ...

I thought there was no way to escape my arranged marriage to a crime boss. Until my biker ex-boyfriend kidnaps me. I'm being forced to marry the heir to a criminal empire to save my family’s business. My fiance is filthy rich, diabolically ruthless, and my living nightmare. I'm trapped in hell with the devil himself. Until my ex-boyfriend appears. And kidnaps me. When I first met my ex, Jackson, he was just the boy from the wrong side of the tracks. The forbidden crush my parents forced me to stay away from. Now he’s back. With the road name Bullet on his biker cut With tattoos, ...

As IQ plugs a mysterious USB into his laptop, he's horrified to see what flashes across the screen: his girlfriend Grace is sweaty and bedraggled—her wrists wrapped with duct tape. Grace has been kidnapped by the likes of Skip Hanson, a brutish hitman with a vendetta against Isaiah. As IQ and Dodson attempt to locate Grace based on scant evidence, (read: a Sonic burger wrapper in one grainy image) they must wend through the stark, unrelenting East California landscape in search of clues.

The world thought Dmitri Melnikov was dead. Especially Quinn. Why would he have believed otherwise, since the bomb intended for Melnikov had nearly killed Quinn and several members of his team? But Melnikov is not dead. He has been taken by someone who wants to shut him up. And the former chess champion isn’t the only one who has been abducted.

Caitlyn Sullivan had come from a long line of Hollywood royalty, stretching back to her Irish immigrant great-grandfather. At nine, she was already a star - yet still an innocent child who loved to play hide-and-seek with her cousins at the family home in Big Sur. It was during one of those games that she disappeared. Some may have considered her a pampered princess, but Cate was in fact a smart, scrappy fighter, and she managed to escape her abductors. Callan Cooper was shocked to find the bloodied, exhausted girl huddled in his house.

Kelsey has lived most of her life in a shadow of suspicion, raised to see danger everywhere. Her mother hasn't set foot outside their front door in 17 years, since she escaped from her kidnappers with nothing but her attacker's baby growing inside her - Kelsey. Kelsey knows she's supposed to keep a low profile and stay off the grid for their protection, but that plan is shattered when her dramatic car accident and rescue by volunteer firefighter and classmate Ryan Baker sparks media coverage.

Every family has secrets, and Hope Novak's family is no exception. They're spies, with secrets that could shatter the foundations of nations. Novak journeys to Poland with a desire to reconnect with her long-lost family. But when she finally connects, her sister Ewa Krupa is viciously abducted, Hope's darkest fears are realized. Sworn enemies from her family's past have returned to hunt them down, and Hope must race across the globe to save her little sister before it's too late. With each step, perils deepen and Hope finds herself up against forces more powerful than she ever imagined. ...

In Moonlight Bay, children are disappearing. From their homes. From the streets. And there’s nothing their families can do about it. Because here, the police work their hardest to conceal crimes and silence victims. No matter what happens in the night, their job is to ensure that nothing disturbs the peace and quiet of Moonlight Bay. Christopher Snow isn’t afraid of the dark. Forced to live in the shadows because of a rare genetic disorder, he knows the night world better than anyone. He believes the lost children are still alive and that their disappearance is connected to the town’s most carefully kept, most ominous secret....

When Americas beloved pop sensation, Selah Lablanc, and handsome NFL player, Maddox Miller, go missing, the Attorney General assigns the case to the US Marshals. Tasked with the high-stakes mission of finding them, Marshal Stephen Wilton, renowned for his kidnapping expertise, is thrust into the dangerous case where he becomes an unexpected target.

One by one, children of New York's wealthiest are taken hostage. But the criminal doesn't crave money or power--he only wants to ask the elite if they know the price others pay for their luxurious lifestyles. And, if they don't, he corrects their ignorance - by killing them.

After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they’re deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry. But as soon as they set foot on the island, which is run by a tightly knit clan of locals, everything feels wrong.

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.