Kidnapping Thriller

It all started in Southport, Merseyside, a seventeen-year-old man killing three and injuring ten young girls at a Taylor Swift dance class, his weapon of choice, a kitchen knife. The murders sparked protests and riots around the country, mainly aimed at the Muslim community and the hotels housing illegal immigrants. People were beaten, properties vandalized, and as usual the boys in blue were stuck in the middle of it all. Could things get worse? Of course they could. A small group of people saw the rioting as an opportunity to escalate things to a higher level, to act against the migrants,...

In the busy town center of Canterbury, a woman and a young boy are snatched from the street. A few miles away, a man stands on the edge of a viaduct ready to throw himself off. Sergeant Shaun Carter, a police negotiator, is trying to talk him down, but he dare not get too close. This man is the only person who has the answers needed to find the missing. These two events will have consequences for everyone they touch. And Shaun Carter is forced to make heartbreaking choices as he faces a vicious criminal network. As the situation spirals out of control, Shaun asks for help.

It’s every parent’s worst nightmare: the call that comes in the middle of the night. When Kat Jenkins awakens to the police on her doorstep, her greatest fear is realized. Her nine-year-old son, Ethan, is missing - vanished from the cabin where he’d been on an overnight class trip. Shocked and distraught, Kat rushes to the campground, but she’s too late; the authorities have returned from their search empty-handed after losing Ethan’s trail in the mountain forest.

When fame turns deadly... Sydney Booth traded her CSI badge in to become a private investigator, hoping working outside the law would allow her to help more people. Her first case seems straightforward: help social media influencer Cassie figure out who has been stalking her. But as Sydney navigates the treacherous world of online fame to help her new client the stakes quickly escalate to life and death. Surrounded by rival influencers, aggressive paparazzi, and a growing list of suspects, Sydney must race against time to unravel the twisted truth and save her client's life. "An Influential...

I’ve worn a lot of labels over the years. For as long as I can remember, I wanted to escape. I hid in my dance. I ran away from my life as much as I could. I fought to be somewhere else, even if I couldn’t be someone else. One night, after my partner lashed out at me and I’d been hurt, the Vandals took me and never looked back. They introduced me to a world I had no idea existed and a family so much greater than the one I’d been trying to survive.

She lost her heart to a vampire. Will she lose her life too? Juniper is a witch, hidden amid the gas lamps of Victorian society, who knows the bloody shape of the future. When she is imprisoned in a vampire's lair alongside an officer from Scotland Yard, she faces his interrogation about a murder that rocked the front page of newspapers around the globe. She knows that he sees her as a courtesan with dangerous social ambitions, but the truth would scandalize him more. It is a story of outcasts, warlocks, werewolves, finishing schools, dark prophecies, and supernatural threats that he won't ...

Every family has secrets, and Hope Novak's family is no exception. They're spies, with secrets that could shatter the foundations of nations. Novak journeys to Poland with a desire to reconnect with her long-lost family. But when she finally connects, her sister Ewa Krupa is viciously abducted, Hope's darkest fears are realized. Sworn enemies from her family's past have returned to hunt them down, and Hope must race across the globe to save her little sister before it's too late. With each step, perils deepen and Hope finds herself up against forces more powerful than she ever imagined. ...

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.

A distraught woman arrives at the Eastvale police station desperate to speak to Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. But since Banks is away on holiday, his partner, Annie Cabbot, steps in. The woman tells Annie that she's found a loaded gun hidden in the bedroom of her daughter, Erin: a punishable offense under English law. When an armed response team breaks into the house to retrieve the weapon, the seemingly straightforward procedure quickly spirals out of control.

Inspired by the real-life Glico-Morinaga kidnapping, an unsolved case which terrorized Japan for two years, Lady Joker reimagines the circumstances of this watershed episode in modern Japanese history and brings into riveting focus the lives and motivations of the victims, the perpetrators, the heroes and the villains. As the shady networks linking corporations to syndicates are brought to light, the stakes rise, and some of the professionals we have watched try to fight their way through this crisis will lose everything—some even their lives.

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 ...

Ten years ago, I was seventeen, spending summers with my wealthy family, and friends on Hawk Island. One terrible night, I blacked out. The next morning, my best friend, Melanie, was gone—vanished without a trace. Today, I go back. To the island. To my sister's wedding. To a group of privileged people with whom I've never belonged. To secrets that someone will kill to keep. A storm is coming. A storm that could allow a kidnapper to escape, or a killer to murder again, and reveal the true faces of All the Pretty People.

In the city that never sleeps, her night from hell has only just begun... Fans of You're Next and While She Was Out will enjoy this revenge thriller filled with intense moments from start to finish! After working the night shift, Ashley agrees to pick up a delivery for her father, but she soon discovers that she was given the wrong bag in error...a bag filled with a lot of cash. Ashley decides to do what's right and attempts to return the bag, but she becomes entangled in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a local street gang in the process. Ashley desperately tries to come up with a plan ...

COULD THE TRIPTYCH LEAD THEM TO ICONS WHICH ONCE BELONGED TO CATHERINE THE GREAT, CZARINA OF RUSSIA? Giving his treasured possession to the two Australians who rescued him from an icy death, the ancient Cossack swears that the icon, an icon given to him by his grandfather, contains a code which will point to the secret hiding place of priceless icons looted from the imperial palace by Bolsheviks during the early years of the Russian Revolution. They must decide whether there really is a secret concealed within the old man’s icon, or whether the story was merely the old Cossack’s fantasy...

Old wounds sometimes take a longer time to heal than fresh ones, no one knows this better than BLACK LOVE. District attorney turned private investigator faces maybe one of the biggest cases of his career when a scab is pulled off of one of his old wounds an uncaptured perpetrator re-surfaces rather he wants to or not he's placed in the center of a man-hunt for the one that got away. Old flames are re-introduced into his life as he tries to navigate through the uncertainty of his current romantic relationships not only with STONE, but also with TRIGGER BROWN in the midst of this it seems as ...

Rae Dixon is lucky to be alive. Fifteen years ago, she survived being trafficked and abused, escaping her captors to reclaim her life. Now, she’s running a thriving business with her best friend and raising a teenage daughter on her own. Rae’s finally in control—literally. As Mistress V, Rae is the one calling the shots catering to Oklahoma City’s elite in her private dungeon, which is fronted by a spa. But when a client goes missing, Rae’s world spins out of control.

Special Agent Lisa Tanchik is the best at taking down cybercriminals. So when the FBI discovers a multibillion-dollar black market online, she’s tasked with finding the creator and bringing him to justice. Donning one of her many digital disguises, Tanchik goes undercover into the network. Brilliant college student Nate Fallon started his site as an idealistic experiment. But his platform has made illegal trade not only more efficient - but also more dangerous. Now the FBI aren’t the only ones out to get him.

Haunted by childhood abuse, Veronica Howe is hell-bent on revenge. She confronts her abuser on the day he's released from prison, but events quickly spiral out of control. Suddenly on the run, and also desperate to retrieve a beloved necklace that belonged to her late mother, Veronica embarks on a dangerous mission, but realizes she can't do it alone. Olivia Darby overcame childhood obesity to blossom into a gorgeous young woman who is desired by all. But the solace she found in the church during her early days of torment, inspires her to become a nun instead of pursuing ordinary romantic ...

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 ...

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, ...