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Series
Alex Cross volume 18
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross is thwarted at every turn while he attempts to investigate the abduction of the president's son and daughter and also discovers a deadly contagion released in the capital's water supply that foreshadows a larger, more devastating attack.
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Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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 to find her--but Stride discovers that the lawyer had plenty of motive to be the mastermind behind the crime. Even as Stride digs for the truth about Gavin Webster and his wife, he must also deal with a crisis in his own marriage. But all he can do is keep moving...
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
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 nor not to beliee a woman who claims to be her sister, Sarah, who was abducted twenty-four years ago at age five. As Annie grapples with how to heal the gulf between her and her would-be sister and make room in her life for Jon, she's professionally distracted by the case of yet another missing...
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English
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A victim of sex trafficking, Carly Smith had been at the mercy of merciless men, ignored by law enforcement officers who should have helped her, and seemingly rejected by her family. Though she escaped her captors and is working hard on building a new life, the past continues to haunt her when she discovers that the man she couldn't bring herself to report to police for fear of reliving her captivity is still out there, luring vulnerable girls under...
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Series
Cormac Reilly volume 3
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"It all started with a little favour ... Police corruption, an investigation that ends in tragedy and the mystery of a little girl's silence - three unconnected things that will prove to be linked by one small town. While Detective Cormac Reilly faces enemies at work and trouble in his personal life, Garda Peter Fisher is relocated out of Galway with the threat of prosecution hanging over his head. But even that is not as terrible as having to work...
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English
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'My sister was abducted from here nearly thirty years ago. The person who took her was never found. And neither was she. Her abductor nearly killed me. So I'm back here now trying to find the truth' Atlee Pine has spent most of her life trying to find out what happened that fateful night in Andersonville, Georgia. Her six-year-old twin sister, Mercy, was taken and Atlee was left for dead while their parents were apparently partying downstairs. One...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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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...
11) Time of death
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Series
DI Tom Thorne volume 13
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Recalled from a romantic vacation with his girlfriend Helen Weeks, Tom Thorne investigates the abduction of two girls in Helen's hometown, convinced that the police have the wrong person in custody.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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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
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Discovering that his troubled adult daughter has been kidnapped, a washed-up movie star with no money to pay the ransom turns to his closest friends, a legendary Hollywood stunt man and a disgraced former LAPD detective, to get her back.
14) Agent of chaos
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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.--
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Series
Asker volume part 1
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After a high-profile kidnapping case goes wrong, criminal inspector Leonore Asker is relegated to the so-called Department of Lost Souls where she, drawn into a peculiar case, one possibly linked to the kidnapping, is led to the darkest recesses of the city where an unusual kind of evil lurks in the shadows.
16) The family way
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Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Molly Murphy - now Molly Sullivan - is a year into her marriage, expecting her first child, and confined to the life of a housewife. She's restless and irritable in the heat of a 1904 New York summer. So when a letter arrives addressed to her old detective agency asking her to locate a missing Irish serving maid, Molly figures it couldn't hurt to ask around. On the same day, Molly learns that five babies have been kidnapped in the past month. Even...
17) Dead loudmouth
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Series
Publisher
Tyrus Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A Wisconsin detective must solve a double murder and rescue a kidnapped child"--
Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris is called to the scene of a horrific accident that occurred in the dead of night at a Loon Lake gentleman's club. The club is owned by one of the victims, a member of the private Deer Creek Fishing and Hunting Preserve and the scion of a wealthy Wisconsin family. Retired dentist "Doc" Osborne steps in for the absent coroner, and discovers...
18) The roses of May
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Series
Collector trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Four months after the explosion at the Garden, a place where young women known as the Butterflies were kept captive, FBI agents Brandon Eddison, Victor Hanoverian, and Mercedes Ramirez are still entrenched in the aftermath, helping survivors in the process of adjusting to life on the outside. With winter coming to an end, the Butterflies have longer, warmer days of healing ahead. But for the agents, the impending thaw means one gruesome thing: a...
19) Six four
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The nightmare no parent could endure. The case no detective could solve. The twist no reader could predict. For five days in January 1989, the parents of a seven-year-old Tokyo schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter's kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. They would never see their daughter again. For the fourteen years that followed, the Japanese public listened to the police's apologies. They would never forget the...
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Benjamin January volume 18
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"New Orleans, 1840. Freshly home from a dangerous journey, the last thing Benjamin January wants to do is leave his wife and young sons again. But when old friends Henri and Chloe Viellard ask for his help tracking down a missing girl in distant New York, he can't say no. Three weeks ago, seventeen-year-old Eve Russell boarded a steam-boat and never got off it. Mrs. Russell is adamant Eve's been kidnapped, but how could someone remove a teenager from...
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