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Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Using her skills as a handwriting analyst to assist a local murder and kidnapping investigation, Anna identifies disturbing parallels between the crimes and her own struggles to protect her troubled teen son from her abusive ex.
Author
Language
English
Description
Barbara is at a loss: The daughter of her friend Taymullah Azhar has been taken by her mother, and Barbara cant really help-Azhar had never married Angelina, and his name isnt on Hadiyyahs, their daughters, birth certificate. Azhar and Barbara hire a private detective, but the trail goes cold. Azhar is just beginning to accept his soul-crushing loss when Angelina reappears with shocking news: Hadiyyah is missing, kidnapped from an Italian marketplace....
Author
Series
Annie Pederson novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
As if the last few months haven’t been hard enough—complete with threats on her life and the return of her first love, Jon—Annie has to figure out whether or not to believe a woman who claims to be her sister, Sarah, who was abducted twenty-four years ago at age five. Annie’s eight-year-old daughter, Kylie, has plenty of questions about what’s going on in her mother’s life—but there are some stories Annie doesn’t want uncovered. As...
Author
Series
Scarlet Falls novels volume 2
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"After corporate attorney Hannah Barrett tries--and fails--to stop a kidnapping in Vegas, she can't shake the haunting image of the terrified young girl she couldn't save. She tells herself that a visit to her hometown in Scarlet Falls could be a welcome distraction. But soon, Hannah realizes the kidnappers have all the info they need to track her every move. And when chilling e-mails about the victim appear in her inbox, it's frighteningly clear...
Author
Series
IQ novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Isaiah Quintabe's first love, Grace, has been kidnapped by his sworn enemy, the professional hitman Skip Hanson. Skip is savage and psychotic, determined to punish Isaiah for sending him to prison and destroying his life. Isaiah and his sometimes partner, ex-hustler Juanell Dodson, together again, must track scant clues through L.A.'s perilous landscape as Grace's predicament grows more uncertain. A complication arises in the form of Winnie Hando,...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene of the biggest case he's ever been part of. The president's son and daughter have been abducted from their school - an impossible crime, but somehow the kidnapper has done it. Alex does everything he can but is shunted to the fringes of the investigation. Someone powerful doesn't want him too close.
Author
Series
Simon Fisk novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Renewing his effort to solve the case of his young daughter's abduction, former U.S. marshal Simon Fisk journeys to Dublin to investigate a murder suspect who bears a striking family resemblance.
Author
Series
Tom Thorne novels volume 13
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Tom Thorne is enjoying a Valentine's Day break with his girlfriend, DS Helen Weeks, when he becomes involved in a case concerning two young girls who have been abducted. The prime suspect in the case is the husband of an old schoolfirend of Helen's. Thorne becomes convinced that, despite overwhelming evidence of the man's guilt, the police have got the wrong person.
Author
Series
Holly novel volume 3
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
He will tear apart her life one piece at a time, reveling in every flicker of fear in her eyes. He's grown bored with the games, and he'll get what he came for no matter how many bodies he has to step over.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A thriller about a desperate mother with a troubled past. One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room. With little evidence and few leads for the police to chase, the case quickly went cold. However, Isabelle cannot rest until Mason is returned to her--literally. Except for the occasional catnap or small blackout...
Author
Series
Catherine Ling volume Book 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is drawn into the mystery of a child that had been abducted eight years earlier, and must use her skills with age progression as a way to reunite mother and son. But Eve must face looming demons of her own.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"To Senior Midwife Lucy Ryuan, pregnancy is not an unusual condition, it's her life's work. But when two kidnappings and a vicious stabbing happen on her watch in a university hospital in Manhattan, her focus abruptly changes. Something has to be done, and Lucy is fearless enough to try. Rumors begin to swirl, blaming everyone from the Russian Mafia to an underground adoption network. The feisty single mom teams up with a skeptical NYPD detective...
Author
Series
Liv Bergen mystery volume 4
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Newly minted special agent Liv Bergen races against time to solve a child kidnapping -- which could take a fatal turn -- with the help of her gifted nephew Noah." -- p. [2] of cover.
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Language
English
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Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees...and a collection of precious "butterflies"-young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens. When the garden is discovered, a survivor is brought in for questioning. FBI agents Victor Hanoverian...
16) One salt sea
Author
Series
October Daye novels volume 5
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Someone has kidnapped the sons of Duchess Dianda Lorden, regent of the Undersea Duchy of Saltmist. To prevent a war between land and sea, October 'Toby' Daye must not only find the missing boys, but also prove that the Queen of the Mists was not behind their abduction. She must find the boys in three days' time, or all of the Mists will pay the price.
17) Agent of chaos
Author
Publisher
Imprint, a part of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1979, seventeen-year-old Fox Mulder is the new senior in high school--his father's way of trying to help the family move on after the disappearance of Mulder's little sister. But when a local boy turns up dead and another child is abducted, Mulder can't stop himself from getting involved, and finds himself on the trail of a serial killer.
18) Beyond gone
Author
Series
Simon Fisk novels volume 4
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Return Specialist Simon Fisk is about to go on his most dangerous mission: rescuing the granddaughter of the US Secretary of State from terrorists. Simon Fisk, a specialist in recovering abducted children, is on a routine case in Cape Town when he suddenly finds the body of the suspect he has been following. Believing he is being framed for murder, he runs and soon discovers the job was merely a ruse to lure him to the continent. There, Simon will...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
For the past year, Chloe St. John has been working as a K-9 cop with her German shepherd partner, Hank. After being dumped by her fianc f̌or another woman, Chloe has decided that Hank is just about the only male she likes. She's over the whole romance thing and focuses her attention on doing her job. Because a serious case of human trafficking with connections to her missing cousin just landed in her lap. When US Marshall Blake MacCallum's daughter...
20) The zero night
Author
Series
Jonathan Stride novels volume 11
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
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Description
"After nearly dying of a gunshot wound, Jonathan Stride has been on leave from the Duluth Police for more than a year. When his partner, Maggie Bei, gets called about a suspicious abduction involving a local lawyer, she tells Stride it's time for him to come back. Attorney Gavin Webster says he paid $100,000 in ransom money to the men who kidnapped his wife. Now they've disappeared with the cash, and she's still missing. Gavin claims to be desperate...