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The disappearance and murder of a lonely San Francisco insurance clerk puts a relentless crime reporter and a legendary homicide cop on separate tracks in their pursuit of a killer. The suspect lures solitary women out of their quiet worlds and into his nightmare as he races the clock and travels the globe searching for the one woman who will forgive the unforgivable.

On a flight from Mexico City, Wanda Stroud sees troubling content on the laptop of a passenger seated ahead of her. The next day, Wanda fails to show up for a coffee date she's made with her friend. Ray Wyatt investigates the story while clinging to his last thread of hope that his son, Danny, is not dead.

San Francisco crime reporter Tom Reed is burned out. On the day he decides to finally quit the news business, a sensational story breaks. A heart-stopping robbery-homicide at a jewelry store. The suspects have shot and killed a police officer before fleeing with a female hostage. Reed rushes to the scene, his passion resurrected for one last big story. Arriving at the chaos, Reed is stunned to learn from a staff member, still clutching a receipt, that the hostage is his wife, Ann Reed.

Perfect wife. Doting mom. Jennifer Griffin was loved by everyone, including the women in her suburban-neighborhood book club. Their meetings sometimes went late, but Jenn always came home. Until that night. When Greg Griffin wakes to find his wife is not in bed, his blood runs cold. Her book club friends say Jenn left for home hours ago. But she’s missing. Greg tells detectives their marriage is good, but his alibi is razor-thin. With their young son away at a sleepover, Greg had all night to commit a crime. And there are scrapes on his hands…

While driving to Canada with her boyfriend to start a new life, Samantha Moore, a college student from New York City, vanishes from a lonely low-rent motel in Vermont. Ray Wyatt, a veteran reporter grappling with the tragic loss of his wife and son, is assigned to delve into the mystery enveloping the young woman's disappearance.

Jeff Griffin, a mechanic, and his wife, Sarah, travel from Montana to Manhattan to give their nine-year-old son, Cole, his dream vacation as they secretly face the heart-wrenching turmoil that has them teetering on divorce. In the wake of their heartbreak, a mother and son disappear. While sightseeing near Times Square, Jeff steps into a store to buy batteries for their camera - but upon returning to the street he finds that Sarah and Cole have vanished. Battling his anguish and police suspicions, Jeff fights to rescue them.

Rick Mofina’s best-selling novels find an all-new urgency when coupled with pulse-pounding narrations from Recorded Books. In The Panic Zone, seemingly unrelated events bring the world closer to calamity. A distraught mother witnesses a stranger nab her infant. A bomb explodes in Rio. A cruise ship passenger suffers a horrific death. Caught in the middle, Jack Gannon is headed right into the panic zone—but the further on the edge, the hotter the intensity.

A former true crime reporter whose articles have appeared in the Rick Mofina draws upon his wealth of knowledge to pen gripping crime dramas. In Desperation finds gritty journalist Jack Gannon reunited with his estranged sister Cora. But the circumstances are less than ideal. Cora’s daughter has been kidnapped and is now being held for five million dollars ransom. Time is running out, and as Gannon digs deeper into the case, it becomes clear that his sister is holding something back - a secret from her sordid past that could be the key to saving her daughter’s life.

Driving alone at night in a wild rainstorm, Luke Conway strikes something—or someone. He and his wife, Carrie, recently moved back to Clear River to help take care of her ailing father, and after a tragedy at his previous job, this move is their last chance at a new life. Now, standing in the downpour on this Texas road, Luke, an off-duty cop, has a decision to make—and he has to make it fast. No one else is around. No witnesses. And he can’t find a body.

Thirteen-year-old Tyler Price is struggling with his parents’ divorce as he pinballs between their apartments in Manhattan. One day after school a troubled old man sits next to him on a city bus. His voice filled with fear, the man says, “the awakening” has begun. The man thrusts a satchel at Tyler, telling him to never let it go, minutes before he is killed in a traffic accident while fleeing police. Against the backdrop of a series of strange happenings in New York City, Tyler and his friend, Ella Shaw, become fugitives hunted by police who want the satchel.

Samantha Moore, en universitetsstuderende fra Queens, er på vej til Canada med sin kæreste for at starte et nyt liv, da hun forsvinder fra et ensomt, billigt motel i Vermont. Det skal hurtigt vise sig, at Moore-sagen er én ud af mange mærkelige hændelser, der finder sted i Vermonts øde skove. På grund af en ny ildevarslende opdagelse i sagen tilkaldes FBI-agent Jill McDade, og endnu engang krydser hendes og Ray Wyatts veje hinanden. Wyatt, en erfaren journalist, der kæmper med det tragiske tab af sin kone og søn, har fået til opgave at dykke ned i mysteriet om den unge kvindes forsvinden.

When Greg Griffin wakes to find his wife is not in bed, his blood runs cold. Her book club friends say Jenn left for home hours ago. But she's missing. Greg tells detectives their marriage is good, but his alibi is razor-thin. With their young son away at a sleepover, Greg had all night to commit a crime. And there are scrapes on his hands ...

When six-year-old Gabriel vanishes from Central Park, his mother, news anchor Corina Corado, is desperate for answers. Who would take her son – and why? Detectives suspect there's a connection to the barrage of hate mail Corina's received over the years. In her line of work, it's not unusual for agitated conspiracy theorists to send messages that threaten violence ... or worse.

Enhver forælder kender til et øjebliks panik … men denne gang er det alvor.

En forsvunden datter, en familie med hemmeligheder, en desperat jagt efter sandheden …

På en rasteplads i nærheden af Las Vegas forsvinder fjortenårige Riley Jarrett fra familiens autocamper, og det, der skulle have været en ny begyndelse, forvandles til et mareridt.

When a teen falls while taking a selfie at the edge of a cliff, the last thing she sees before plummeting to her death is Katie Harmon, the nine-year-old girl she was babysitting, looking down at her. Investigators gather at the scene, and Katie's mother, Sara, rushes to comfort her daughter. Yet there's a small, secret ping of alarm in Sara's heart that she cannot share – though rookie Detective Kim Pierce senses it.

Nogle vandreturister finder en traumatiseret dreng, der går alene rundt i et afsides hjørne af Adirondack-bjergene i staten New York. De følger hans spor tilbage til en hytte. Her gør de et gruopvækkende fund, der starter en efterforskning, som kriminalreporteren Ray Wyatt og FBI-agenten Jill McDade bliver involveret i. Wyatt sættes på den foruroligende sag, mens han stadig hjemsøges af tabet af sin søn og sin kone nogle år tidligere. Tiden er imod McDade og Wyatt, der kæmper for at finde frem til sandheden bag en af de mest samvittighedsløse forbrydelser i staten New Yorks historie.

Ein entführtes Kind. Eine schwerverletzte Mutter. Ein ungelöster Mordfall. An einem ganz gewöhnlichen Morgen geht Maria Colson mit ihrem kleinen Sohn Dylan zum Einkaufen. Nur ein paar Sekunden lässt sie ihn aus den Augen – dann ist der Kinderwagen leer. Maria versucht noch, die Entführer zu stoppen, aber sie wird brutal auf die Straße gestoßen, und der Van verschwindet spurlos. Während Maria im Krankenhaus um ihr Leben kämpft und ihr Mann an ihrem Bett Wache hält, suchen FBI und Polizei fieberhaft nach dem kleinen Dylan.

Ein guter Tag zum Sterben... Nicht weit von Seattle gerät die Studentin Karen Harding in ein fürchterliches Unwetter. Dann gibt auf dem verlassenen nächtlichen Highway auch noch ihr Wagen den Geist auf. Als ein Fremder anhält, um ihr zu helfen, ist die junge Frau sehr erleichtert. Zu spät wird ihr klar, dass der Mann sie offenbar schon länger beobachtet... Der junge Reporter Jason Wade wittert eine Riesenchance, als er vom Fall einer Studentin hört, die auf einem Highway spurlos verschwunden ist.

Düstere Geheimnisse. In Seattle wurde eine Nonne grausam ermordet. Mordermittler Jason Wade setzt sich auf die Spur des Killers. Sehr bald muss er feststellen, dass ihn dieser Fall auch persönlich betrifft. Denn die Ermittlungen führen ihn in das Umfeld einer rätselhaften Einsiedlerin und ihrer Gefolgsleute – und mitten in ein düsteres Geheimnis. Und damit in die bösen Erinnerungen seines Vaters, der ebenfalls Ermittler gewesen ist. Gemeinsam stellen sich Vater und Sohn einer schrecklichen Wahrheit und einem tödlichen Wettlauf gegen die Zeit.