Kidnapping Thriller

Arriving in London on leave, Bess Crawford receives an unusual summons from the War Office. She's been requested to accompany a wounded soldier to Buckingham Palace, where he's to be decorated for gallantry. Though she is certain she's never met or nursed Sergeant Jason Wilkins, she cannot refuse the honor. Heavily bandaged and confined to a wheelchair, the soldier will be in her care for barely a day. But on the morning after the ceremony when Bess goes to collect her charge for his return journey, she finds the room empty.

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.

Her mind is gone, and now she’s disappeared. Who will find her before it’s too late? Nuria Denton was a brilliant mind—until early-onset Alzheimer’s stole her future. At only thirty-two, she's been reduced to a shadow of her former self: unable to walk, speak, or even recognize the people she once loved. Now, someone has taken her. Her husband, Dr. Danny Santana, is frantic. He tells the police that without her medication, Nuria could suffer a fatal stroke in just five days. But as time slips away and no ransom demand is made, the mystery deepens. Why would anyone kidnap a woman who...

Rule#1 Never taunt an author–they just might write you into the story. Three reviewers. One twisted plot. No way out. It started with a few snarky comments online about a book by an author no one had heard of. But now, Logan, Hannah, and Jonathan are trapped in a nightmare. Locked in a cold, underground labyrinth, they have no idea who’s behind their kidnapping. Until the voice of author EJ Mills, echoes through the darkness. This isn’t just about revenge. It’s about vindication. Forced to participate in a deadly experiment, will they prove that Mills’s hypothesis is correct? Are ...

Cloning is a luxury for the wealthy. For Chance Harker, it’s a way of getting on with his lives. Five years ago, when he was sixteen, he and his brother, Marley, were murdered in a kidnapping gone wrong. Chance was revived—and his grieving parents met his existence with anger, neglect, and aversion. The public, though? They can’t get enough of the death-defying stunts he has parlayed into a social media spectacle. But after Chance’s latest “refresh,” he awakens to accusations that he’s killed Lee Conway, a stranger Chance has never met.

The President of Claritiva Software is kidnapped at gunpoint. FBI Special Agent Cliff Knowles is the first to respond when the crime is reported. But the report is suspicious in many ways and the front office is skeptical that the kidnapping is real. Knowles must fight his own bureaucracy while trying to rescue the victim and catch the kidnappers. This gripping novel will have you on the edge of your chair from the first chapter. The author, a retired 25-year FBI veteran Special Agent, draws heavily on his experiences working high-technology and violent crimes cases in Silicon Valley to ...

A sapphic romance thriller unfolds against the backdrop of a remote, snowbound town during an unrelenting winter storm. Olivia Conners has just severed ties with Chief of Police Nick Whitmore, culminating in the retrieval of her last belongings from their mountain cabin. In the midst of her departure down a twisting, snow-covered road, an encroaching blizzard becomes a blinding whiteout. Her car crashes, colliding with Riley Bennett - the woman Olivia has secretly admired for so long. Stranded and left with no options, they take refuge in Olivia's cabin. As the storm rages outside, tensions...

Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid is back at work after an attempt on her life and a promotion into the Major Crimes Unit. When the husband of a Portland city judge reports his wife missing, Samantha is assigned the case. She assumes her only job is to make the district attorney look good until the judge turns up. When the police discover evidence of foul play, Samantha finds herself unearthing secrets that were meant to stay hidden.

New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It’s a rich man’s car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime. Nor can he foresee the dark drama that is about to unfold. Deftly shifting through time and perspective in contemporary India, Age of Vice is an epic, action-packed story propelled by the seductive wealth, startling corruption, and bloodthirsty violence of the Wadia family.

Leah’s perfect marriage isn’t what it seems, but the biggest lie of all is that she’s learned to live with what happened all those years ago. Marie drinks a bit too much to help her forget. And Carly has never forgiven herself for not keeping them safe.

When a middle-aged man returns to a small town claiming to be a teenager abducted by a cult 30 years prior, a former detective steps out of retirement to uncover the truth. But picking at old wounds tends to make them bleed. After a scholarly 14-year-old girl vanishes on Halloween night, uncompromising yet isolated private investigator Arden Briar dives deep into the Georgia underground to find the victim. Faced with overwhelming odds, Arden enlists the help of the victim’s damaged father, a veteran with a short fuse. Will Arden’s temporary alliance be the solution or her downfall?

A midnight bombing in 1966 Mississippi rocks a rural community, and its echoes reverberate down the decades. Fifty years later, a midnight knock on his door in Oxford drags former cold case detective Arlan Trahan back to that dark night. His visitor is a mysterious Ole Miss law student who calls herself Lennie, and she wants him to reopen the case of a black man she believes was wrongly accused of murdering a white family in the bombing. He initially refuses—and within days the girl is missing. More strangely, the midnight knockings on his door continue, but no one is there. The eerie ...

Forty-two passengers. One of them is a serial killer. When Holly finds a phone with pictures of murdered women on it on the bus to Miami, she realizes that one of the passengers is a serial killer. A game of cat and mouse begins after the owner of the cell sends Holly a message saying that he wants his phone back. Holly's shocked to find out that the killer knows her name and address. She races against time as she and her fellow passenger Nick Hayden try to figure out the identity of the owner of the phone. When he murders a young woman during one of the stops, Holly fears he'll kill her ...

Sam Capra is a brilliant young CIA agent. His wife Lucy is seven months pregnant with their first child. They are deeply in love. They have everything they could hope for...until they lose it all in one horrifying moment. Sam receives a call from Lucy while he's at work. She tells him to leave the building immediately. He does...just before it explodes, killing everyone inside. Lucy vanishes, and Sam wakes up in a prison cell. As the lone survivor of the attack, he is branded by the CIA as a murderer and a traitor. Escaping from the agency, Sam launches into a desperate hunt....

Galilee, 1025. A cunning Templar knight uncovers a holy treasure: the Bachal Isu - the staff of Jesus Christ - a priceless icon that holds a mysterious and terrifying power that will forever change humanity if unleashed. A millennium later, Somali pirates hijack a yacht off the coast of the Horn of Africa, kidnapping a young pregnant American woman and brutally killing her husband. Painter Crowe and his Sigma team are enlisted for the top secret rescue mission.

I should’ve trusted him, believed him when he told me he was only trying to keep my safe. I thought the worst was behind me. Little did I know the worst was yet to come. Kidnapped by a man capable of the worst kind of evil, I am thrust into a dark and dangerous world where blood and wealth are the only things that matter. I’m a pawn in the war for power. The man I was desperate to escape from is now the only one that can save me. I’ll do anything to be back in his arms. He saved me once; he’ll do it again.

Be careful exposing secrets—it could cost you everything. A bond between two sisters might be the key to uncovering the truth. Emma never expected the nightly news to bring her sister, Scarlett, a well-known Dallas journalist, back into her life—let alone announce she’d been missing for three weeks. Estranged for over six years following a family tragedy, Emma is determined to bridge the gap and help find Scarlett before it’s too late. Partnering with Jackson, the lead detective on the case, Emma discovers that the key to uncovering Scarlett’s whereabouts lies in her missing ...

Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler, first introduced in The Various Haunts of Men, is on a painting holiday in Venice when he is summoned home by a telephone call. He has family problems to face, and the stress and grind of running a busy police station. When a little boy is snatched as he stands with his satchel at the gate of his home, waiting for his lift to school, an ordinary community realises that terror and evil are in their very midst.

Sometimes you have to do something wrong to make some things right. Miranda wanted justice but the system let her down. Now she wants revenge. She wants Judge Errol Hawkins to know how it feels to be the victim. She wants Judge Hawkins to feel the pain of loss, even for just a little while. She has a plan to steal his son. The hitch though is that Robert’s high performing, raging alcoholic mother has also been tangled up in the plan. Miranda’s other issue is that Errol Hawkins’ teenage son has turned out to be a sociopathic thirty-year-old man. But the real problem is that Miranda now...

Jack Swyteck’s new girlfriend, Mia, is keeping secrets from the love-struck Miami attorney, not the least of which is a wealthy and powerful husband. Then Mia is kidnapped by a manipulative abductor who makes a chilling ransom request, “Pay me what she’s worth”. Now Jack’s the one under the gun, since Mia’s spouse has decided his unfaithful wife is worth nothing. Time is of the essence, and if Jack picks the wrong number, Mia could end up like the kidnapper’s other victims: dead.