Kidnapping Mystery

Reader: Do you remember Lady Frances Carfax from my account of her two years ago? Do you recall how she was very nearly murdered by being buried alive? I thought you might. She’s back. She returned to 221B Baker Street a few weeks back asking for help from Sherlock Holmes. She acknowledged that years earlier she gave birth to a love child. That child has now been kidnapped and a ransom demand has been received. If not paid, the child, who is now a young woman, will suffer the same fate and Lady Carfax almost did two years ago. She will be buried alive. Holmes and I set off to Europe to ...

Deadly. Ruthless. Eighteen. Bent on murder. Despite not being old enough to drive, Rose was easily the most skilled assassin in Eva Santella’s Italian boot camp. But then Rose decided to leave that life behind and spent her teen years playing soccer and chess and lying on the beach in Barcelona. The Sultan took all that away. When he killed her boyfriend on the night she turned 18, Rose made a vow that either she would kill The Sultan or die trying. At that moment, she knew despite her best efforts to live a normal life, she was destined to be a killer. Now, after years of hunting The ...

The Girl in the Tide Mysterious. Fraudulent. Deadly. When an old acquaintance is framed for murder, amateur treasure hunter and diver Leigh Lacosta must beat a murderous rival to an undiscoverable shipwreck to clear her friend's name. Dont Tell Alex Ryder is the best detective in her division, but she's harboring a secret that could kill her entire career. When Detective Alex Ryder picks up a new homicide case, no one knows her secret connection to the murder. As personal issues and an obsessive nature threaten her career, Alex follows a lead onto the Emerald Adventure, a cruise ship ...

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...

Former CIA officer James ‘Wes’ Wesley paid the ultimate price for his patriotism when he was locked up in a French jail for an anti-terror operation gone wrong--abandoned by the Agency he served, shunned by his colleagues and friends, cut off from his family. Now he is shattered by the news that his ex-wife, Rachel, a State Department analyst, has been killed in a terrorist attack in Spain. He also discovers that his young son, Ethan, is missing. But Wes didn’t know he had a son--until now. Why was Rachel in Spain? And why did she keep his son secret from him?

Shayna Darby is finally coming to terms with her parents’ deaths when she’s delivered another blow. The body of her estranged twin sister, Angela - the possible victim of a serial killer - has been pulled from the Seine. Putting what’s left of her life on hold, Shayna heads to Paris. But while cleaning out Angela’s apartment, Shayna makes a startling discovery: a coded message meant for her alone... Alive. Trust no one.

Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, 15-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, Jenny's seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished, and her family is broken.

DCI Alex Rogan is barely holding himself together. Haunted by the loss of his wife, he throws himself into the murder of a young woman—the victim he's dubbed the Jigsaw Girl. But as he digs deeper, the case becomes a maze of secrets, lies, and brutal truths no one wants exposed. Then her sister vanishes. Now the clock is ticking, and Rogan must hold his nerve as he hunts a killer who’s always one step ahead. With his job, reputation, and sanity hanging by a thread, he knows one thing for certain: If he doesn’t solve the puzzle in time, another girl will die. Jigsaw Girl is the ...

Her sister was taken. Two years later, the kidnapper has returned for her . . .Rosie's life changed forever on the night an intruder broke into her home and abducted her older sister Gracie. The single tragic event left the teenager's life in disarray, but after two years, Rosie is finally trying to find happiness in her life again, feeling as though her sister would want her to be happy after all. But her sister's kidnapper won't allow that to happen. He has returned, and is leaving a series of increasingly frightening and disturbing messages for her. He is watching her every move, ...

Robbie and Trevor Cresmont have a body count—the killer kind. Handsome and privileged, the Crestmont brothers have enough wealth to ensure they’ll never be found guilty of any wrongdoing, even if all of Happy Valley believes they're behind the deaths of their ex-girlfriends. First there was soccer star Victoria Moreno, Robbie’s ex, who mysteriously drowned at the family lake house. Then, a year later, Trevor’s girlfriend died of a suspicious overdose.

Book #15 in the Jab Boone Murder Mystery Series Jab and his student trackers discover a commonality among missing teenage girls: they were all Girl Scouts! Worse, they deduce a heinous motive: 100 dead Girl Scouts at the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts. As more bodies are found, it’s up to Jab’s team to stop the person responsible—before any more Girl Scouts are killed!

When DI Joe Hogarth is called to a snowbound country house, he discovers a body slumped by a broken boiler. What appears to be a tragic accident takes a sinister turn when Hogarth spots a telltale footprint nearby. On the hunt for a killer, he uncovers a web of motives among business rivals, a bitter ex-wife, a duplicitous groundskeeper, and perhaps even the dead man’s sons. But as Hogarth delves deeper into the victim's plans, he soon uncovers a motive that eclipses them all… Meanwhile, property developer Dina Cruxley is targeted by a dangerous criminal campaign that hits at the heart ...

People mistake her for an average teenage girl … That’s often their last mistake. After being the youngest and the most dangerous assassin at the secret Italian facility that teaches young women how to kill, Rose abandoned her training to live as a normal teenager. Years later, her dark past and worst enemies catch up with her and destroy everything she holds dear. Now she only has one thing on her mind—a deadly vendetta. She won’t rest until there is blood on her hands one more time. Even if some of the blood ends up being her own. Blood & Roses is the first book in the Vigilante ...

Quantum physicist Matt Bronik is suffering from strange, violent seizures that medical science seems powerless to explain - much to the consternation of his wife, Brigid. Matt doesn't think these fits could be related to his research, which he has always described as benign and esoteric. That, it turns out, is not quite true: Matt has been prodding the mysteries of the quantum universe, with terrible repercussions for his health. And perhaps even for humanity as a whole.

Blindness hasn't held her back...But it could get her killed. Syd Shaeffer used to be so much: career-driven and fearless, a stellar New York District Attorney, and fiancée to love of her life, Frank Spinelli. A viral eye infection changed all that. Now she's blind and runs a failing law practice out in the burbs. But when Frank goes missing in New Zealand and the ransom note tells his mother not to call the police, Syd may be the only one who can find him. Is Syd driven by honor? Or is she trying to prove that she's still good enough? And when the first dead body turns up, can she unravel...

When silence falls, who will hear their cries? The body of a young girl is found dumped on the roadside on the outskirts of Edinburgh. When pathologists examine the remains, they make a gruesome discovery: the outline of a doll carved into the victim’s skin. DCI Ava Turner and DI Luc Callanach are struggling to find leads in the case until a doll made of skin is found nestled beside an abandoned baby. After another young woman is found butchered, Luc and Ava realise the babydoll killer is playing a horrifying game. And it’s only a matter of time before he strikes again.

Two fourteen-year-old girls go missing from an exclusive boarding school. Did they abscond, or have they been kidnapped? The girls’ parents - and indeed the parents of many other pupils – have considerable influence in very high places. Pressure is quickly brought to bear to get Scotland Yard involved. Concern for the girls’ safety is paramount. Detective Chief Inspector Adair and three of his officers are assigned to help the local police. Initially there is little to go on, but Adair soon determines that the children didn’t leave voluntarily. The first step – to ascertain how ...

Kidnapped! When Jeanne Louise Argeneau left work, she never thought she'd end up tied down by a good-looking mortal. More attracted than annoyed, she quickly realizes there is more to her abductor than meets the eye. One desperate act leads to . . . Love? Paul Jones has need of a vampire, and only Jeanne Louise will do. He just has to convince this beauty of a Vamp to help him . . . never imagining that he would fall in love. But with law enforcement hunting them, their time together is running out .

Jane knows about death, she knows the fear, the terror, and the blackness that follows…what she doesn’t know, is who she is or who abandoned her at the edge of the Dagger Woods when she was just five years old. When a woman is found dead in the same place twenty-three years later, she knows that it’s time for her to go back and find out the truth, even if it kills her…

From New York Times Bestselling Author Cheryl Bradshaw comes book two in her exciting new mystery series. When a dead body is found in the walls during a home renovation, detective Georgiana Germaine gets swept into a cold case murder. Whose body lies within the walls of the house and what ties does it have to the death of Georgiana's father more than three decades earlier? Love mysteries with a surprising twist? Little Lost Secrets will hook you from the first page. Books in this Series: Little Girl Lost (Book 1) 2021 USA Today Best-Selling Book Little Lost Secrets (Book 2) Little Broken ...