Kidnapping Thriller

Where her daughter had played Gretel in front of a cheering audience, only two faint stage lights remained. The theater was deserted and eerily silent; the only sound she could hear was her own heart, pounding in a frenzy against her chest. She rushed outside and stopped sharply at the top of the stairs, stunned, her blood turned to icicles. Darkness had fallen, thick and filled with ocean mist, lampposts like ghosts sprinkling yellow haloes in the sky. Paige was gone. They’d taken her little girl.

"Wendy Darling, I have your brothers. You'll never see them again. They're in Neverland now." Isobel "Bel" Emerson finds her life disrupted once again when Eamon Stone receives a disturbing phone call from an old friend's daughter. Her family is in danger, but she can't call the police. Eamon is the only person she can turn to, and he agrees to help under one condition: Bel comes with him. Working undercover with only Eamon for backup, Bel arrives at Wendy Darling's expansive estate where she learns that both of Wendy's younger brothers have been kidnapped.

A teen goes missing. Her sister comes back to a town that blames her. The deeper she digs, the darker the truth becomes. She must find her sister before it’s too late.

Despite all her years determining the fates of families, judge Hope Willis couldn't save her own. Her daughter taken, she's frantically grasping at any hope for Krissy's return. Desperate, Hope calls upon an unconventional team of experts for help.

Alice Ingold has been kidnapped. Call the police. Alert the media. You can’t play this game without all the pieces. Beautiful, blond, and immensely privileged, Alice Ingold is the perfect victim for a true-crime obsessed culture—and for a masked duo with a singular purpose. Instead of a demand for ransom, her captors have a riddle, and they’re inviting the entire country to solve it.

Brought vividly to life by acclaimed actress Faye Marsay, known for her roles in Adolescence, Ten Pound Poms, and Game of Thrones. Featuring an exclusive audio Q&A with author Steph McGovern and narrator Faye Marsay, available only in this edition. The debut crime thriller from award-winning...

*The #1 Irish bestseller* The latest gripping new thriller featuring DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author ‘The most dangerously addictive series in crime fiction’ ERIN KELLY ‘Oh. My. God.’ RUTH WARE ‘I LOVE it – it is completely...

DS Katie Maguire and her team are stretched to their limit. A gang of dognappers is terrorizing Cork. The city's drug trade is at an all-time high. Now a girl has gone missing – and all in the glare of the media spotlight. As Katie closes in on the truth, she realizes that the three cases might be connected. But with every second she spends investigating, the clock ticks on for the missing girl, trapped in a living death...

It's all hands on deck when a teenager visiting Maui disappears one night, and all signs point toward wrongdoing. With Charlie and Jake working together for once, they're going to have to put aside their feelings for each other if it means getting to the bottom of this case. And things get even more intense when it turns out there's a connection to someone they know.

Three months after four-year-old Holly Gebhardt was kidnapped, she was inexplicably returned to the same park from which she’d vanished...with no memory of the ordeal. Though a local handyman was convicted, suspicion also fell on his friend - Holly’s mother, Cecily. The troubling doubts about her involvement shattered the family, forever driving a wedge between mother and daughter. Twenty years later, another girl goes missing under eerily similar circumstances. It’s just the latest in a series of kidnappings that Detective Jason Guidry thinks Holly can help solve.

Lieutenant Abby Mullen is no stranger to crisis. As the hostage negotiation instructor for the NYPD, she deals with worst-case scenarios every day. Nothing fazes her anymore. That all changes when she gets a call from Eden Fletcher, a fellow survivor of the infamous Wilcox cult. The two haven’t spoken since the night of a tragic, fiery massacre, when their paths diverged. But now Eden needs Abby’s help: someone has kidnapped her son and is demanding a $5 million ransom. As Abby throws herself into the case, she can’t help but wonder why the kidnapper has targeted Eden.

As a child, Abby Mullen escaped the insidious Wilcox cult when it literally went down in flames. Years later, she’s the NYPD’s best hostage negotiator and a mother. She thought the worst part of her life was behind her. Until now. Armed conspiracy theorists called the Watchers have attacked the local high school - and taken her daughter hostage. With the delusional Watchers holding her child at gunpoint, the unflappable Abby might be at her breaking point. But the clock is ticking on her daughter’s life.

Merritt Coletto and her husband, Luca, have the life they dreamed of: a coastal home, a promising future, and a growing family. That dream ends with a late-night knock on the door. Weak, broken, and emaciated, it’s Luca’s first wife, Lydia. Missing for ten years, presumed dead, and very much alive, she has quite a story. Racked with guilt over the beautiful life they’ve built, Merritt and Luca agree to help get Lydia back on her feet - it’s the least they can do. But the more enmeshed Lydia becomes in Merritt’s family, the more questions Merritt has.

When their son Arthur mysteriously vanishes in the idyllic village of Kenwood, Emily and Derek are plunged into a heart-pounding race against time to uncover the truth behind his disappearance. As the facade of their once perfect community crumbles, the couple must navigate a treacherous web of deceit and betrayal, testing the very meaning of family and trust. Discover the chilling secret that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about this seemingly peaceful village.

Four stand-alone crime thrillers written by USA Today best-selling author Kristen Middleton. This audiobook includes: Searching for Faith, Looking for Lainey, Forget Me Not, and Hear Them Scream. These books are suggested for fans of Kay Hooper, Heather Graham, Iris Johansen, and Nora Roberts.

When a child disappears without a trace during a snowstorm in a small town, Mary must unravel the mystery before it's too late. As the search intensifies, Mary confronts her own dark past, which may hold the key to unlocking the truth. With time running out and the townspeople on edge, can Mary crack the case and bring the perpetrator to justice?

What do you do when the unthinkable happens? August 8, 2000: A carefree birthday party goes horribly wrong. The children scatter to play hide and seek. But one little girl never returns. Three-year-old Grace has vanished without a trace. Fourteen years later: With the case long since gone cold, Grace's family has done its best to move on. But her sister, Elise, has never given up hope. And now Elise thinks she may have found her.... Is Elise going crazy? Could Grace really have returned? And if she has, where was she taken?

When a series of suspicious fires leaves multiple victims dead in their homes, NYPD hostage negotiator Abby Mullen knows in her bones that the terrors of her childhood have returned. As a young girl, she narrowly escaped a fire set by Moses Wilcox, a fanatical cult leader who’s been presumed dead for thirty years. These murders have his fingerprints all over them.

Luke's week in the mountains goes from pleasure to business in an instant when he is called upon to help find two teenage boys–one the son of a multi-millionaire Starbucks VIP–who have been abducted at gunpoint during a wilderness survival school expedition. Their captors and the foreigners calling the shots behind the scenes are desperate for their ransom money and willing to do almost anything to get it.

A pulse-pounding thriller about a woman who survived a horrifying abduction and has used her ordeal to help other women avoid the same fate, but when she’s invited on a cruise by her estranged sister to reconnect, she begins to realize that every corner of this ship hides terrifying secrets...