Kidnapping Thriller

He watches. A woman runs alone in the woods. She convinces herself she has no reason to be afraid, but she’s wrong. A predator is stalking the women of Grant County. He lingers in the shadows, until the time is just right to snatch his victim. He waits. A decade later, the case has been closed. The killer is behind bars. But then another young woman is brutally attacked and left for dead and the MO is identical. He takes.

This is based on a true crime story: In the bleak dawn of the 1950s, a young, unmarried mother's life was irrevocably fractured. The abduction of her son – a savage violation – became a generational wound, a festering sore that poisoned her existence for decades. This vibrant, hopeful woman, barely out of adolescence, had poured her soul into nurturing her child, only to have that love cruelly, violently ripped away.

Sonchai Jitpleecheep - the brash and beguiling Royal Thai Police Force detective who has been our guide through John Burdett’s five previous acclaimed Bangkok novels - is back. The former monk and devout Buddhist, forever battling to protect his karma from the assaults of morally compromising cases, is now faced with the most horrifying technological innovation to make its way to the streets of Bangkok and a conspiracy of almost unfathomable reach.

Book #11 of the Jab Boone Murder Mystery Series A dying ex-GI, known as The Doorman, is killing American Indian brujos and shaman. He’s holed up deep under the Owyhee Mountains, and he has booby-trapped every entrance with explosives. Jab’s team discovers his hide-out— only to become The Doorman’s prisoners themselves!

Book #18 of the Jab Boone Murder Mystery Series After convulsing and passing out in a plane, Jab decides to confront his lifelong fear: claustrophobia. He hires Ezra to investigate—himself! Ezra’s probes discover a connection to Jay Boone, Jab’s grandfather. Worse—the criminals involved are safely behind bars, making it next to impossible to solicit the truth and gain a confession!

In this 9th novel in the 10-book TY WARD ADVENTURE SERIES, retired bodyguard Ty Ward leaves Texas to find a new home. In New York City Ty is arrested by the Covid-19 cops and placed in quarantine. That leads to a series of adventures which throws Ty into prison and then into the sleazy cartel world of human sex trafficking. These criminal gangs never learn. Don't rile up this potent giant. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a retired Canadian lawyer who has penned more than 100 novels since his retirement in 2009. Please check out his Author Page on Amazon (and the Author Pages for ...

A peaceful cabin on the lake. A small town filled with friendly locals. Too good to be true? Absolutely.After a break-in leaves her family shaken, 16-year-old Katie Hickson is forced to say goodbye to her home in Los Angeles when her family moves her to a lakeside cabin in a small town in the country. Despite being unhappy about the move, she starts to change her tune when she meets some new friends. But it all takes a turn for the worse when Katie discovers the body of a teenage girl in the lake. When she learns that the dead girl was also from out of town, Katie feels compelled to learn ...

Acacia Pines, USA. Sheriff Cohen's life is falling apart – his father accidentally burned down the retirement home, his wife has moved out, and his son is bullying other kids at school. When high-school student Lucas Connor is abducted, Cohen sees a chance to get his life back on track – to win back his wife and scoop the reward money offered for Lucas's safe return. But as the body count rises, it becomes clear that Cohen's going to have to make the kind of decision from which there's no coming back...a decision with deadly consequences.

A vengeful female ringleader heads an expensive show horse kidnapping operation, selling to the black market. One couple loses a much treasured dressage mount. Will Cajun Magic make it back to his rightful owners? Can the Mob push back against the villain's dark ways?

What do you do when the unthinkable happens? August 8, 2000: A carefree birthday party goes horribly wrong. The children scatter to play hide and seek. But one little girl never returns. Three-year-old Grace has vanished without a trace. Fourteen years later: With the case long since gone cold, Grace's family has done its best to move on. But her sister, Elise, has never given up hope. And now Elise thinks she may have found her.... Is Elise going crazy? Could Grace really have returned? And if she has, where was she taken?

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?

He's dedicated his life to saving missing persons, but will it be enough to save himself? Alex Mercer traded in his troubled past to protect the powerless. His blog for tracking down missing persons got his foot in the door at the police academy. But on his first day of training, a heroic act drops him into the hands of the captors he once hunted. Zoey planned to tell Alex how she felt the night he disappeared. As she and Alex's family discover the bloody signs of his fate, past regrets and dark secrets begin to come to light. It's enough to tear Alex's loved ones apart.

Who took Magdalene Dacosta? Why? Where is she now? On the night of her parents' Winter Solstice party, three-year-old Magdalene Dacosta vanishes in the night, never to be seen again. But how did this happen? The home was locked up securely, and security cameras show no one entering or leaving the residence. Detective John Jordan must figure out how this seemingly impossible crime was committed and who is capable of such wickedness before it's too late for another innocent. John Jordan has never had a more baffling case, and the stakes for him have never been higher! Inspired by the real...

This was the reason he was here. This perfect creature he’d heard so much about. She had no clue what was about to happen. If she did, she’d be running for her life. HE wanted her dead. He was a moron. I refuse to kill her, instead I will be making her mine. Eventually she would come to love him. Owning one of the most exclusive clubs in the city, possibly the state, will gift you with some of the most prominent figures in society, from Hollywood stars to politicians, in your corner. But what happens when those acquaintances need to tie up loose ends?

Mina Rose Cabot, age thirteen, disappeared walking home from soccer practice in Devon, Pennsylvania. Eight months later her body is found in Battery Park, New York, speared through the chest by a three-inch piece of wood. Lt. Eve Dallas knows that whoever took Mina is responsible for her death. But who took her and where has Mina been for eight long months?

When an attack leaves one of the members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before he hurts anyone else. And Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco police department try to stop a series of kidnappings: children and their nannies are being plucked off the streets.

CODE PINK - Emergency! A child is missing! In 1980s Chicago, third-year medical student Joan Turner begins her specialty rotations. On her first day in pediatrics, a Code Pink bellows from the overhead sound system for one of the babies assigned to her. And that jarring event is just the beginning. Joan becomes embroiled in a search for the culprits of a baby-stealing ring that targets underprivileged women. While navigating her medical training and growth as a physician, and dodging her way through the hospital tunnel system, Joan becomes a target herself. Joan's dog, her roommate, and a ...

Jarron Rourke, The Apostle returns in the fourth installment of the series, titled Paradise. When the daughter of a powerful US Senator is kidnapped from Miami International Airport, the Senator turns to his old friend, Federal Prosecutor Bennington. The Senator’s daughter and her friend were on a Christmas break from college and seemingly vanished in plain sight. Bennington assigns the detail to Rourke, his top investigator. Teamed with his partner and girlfriend, Jane Diaz, Rourke dives into the investigation with little hope and sheer grit.. The trail in Miami, leads them to a sex ...

The crew of the Star Talon are experts in their field of expertise, but they didn’t start out that way. Sure Drake has always been an ace with the ladies, but Ice only ever succeeded in accomplishing two things before she joined the crew: disappointing her father and hacking the Solaris Corporation. Just because the world tells you that you can’t do more than data entry, doesn’t mean you have to take it lying down. Barbara aka Ice had a plan to get off Solaris One. All she had to do for their plan to succeed was learn to pilot a ship under the company's nose, and hope the two idiots ...

When her son disappears, a mother is forced to confront a past she thought she had left behind. When young Charlie is abducted from a hardware store, his mother Bria must uncover the secrets hidden within their small town of Hollow Oak, North Dakota. As winter sets in, Bria and her husband Lester rely on their tight-knit community and relentless determination to bring Charlie home.