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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
How do police use motive to track down kidnappers? What happens when kidnappings go wrong? Get the answers with historical examples including the Black September kidnapping of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics and recent cases that illustrate how today's technology is helping thwart infant abductions.
Author
Series
Truly devious volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she sets a plan to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly escorting the gold-digging and recently separated Heidi Bradshaw to her daughter's wedding, Boston private investigator Spenser hopes to reconnect with his beloved Susan at the wedding, but becomes enmeshed in a kidnapping plot involving his nemesis Rugar.
4) Zero day
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Eight years after being kidnapped Addie Webster, now sixteen, resurfaces under mysterious circumstances, significantly changed, and her childhood best friend, Darrow Fergusson, is asked by a national security advisor to spy on her to uncover whether she is a threat to her father's Presidency or the nation.
5) Thin air
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A radio deejay newly married to a Boston police detective is kidnapped and imprisoned in the barrio of a depressed Massachusetts factory town, and Spenser is asked to investigate.
Author
Series
Mapmakers volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1891, in a world transformed by 1799's Great Disruption--when all of the continents were flung into different time periods--thirteen-year-old Sophia Tims and her friend Theo go in search of Sophia's uncle, Shadrack Elli, Boston's foremost cartologer, who has been kidnapped.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
Libby inherits an old hotel from a father she'd never met. Although she wants to restore it, she can't afford the upkeep and things just keep getting worse. Her newfound brother and sister are convinced she's going to steal their birthright and when her business partner is kidnapped, Libby is suspected of the crime. She must prove her innocence or lose everything.
8) The reader
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Set in a world where reading is unheard-of, Sefia makes use of a mysterious object to track down who kidnapped her aunt Nin and what really happened the night her father was murdered"--
9) Red flags
Author
Series
Locard Institute thriller volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
D.C. crime scene analyst Dr. Ellie Barr and pathologist Dr. Rachael Davies, former adversaries-turned-allies, must work together to find a missing baby, the child of a Washington power couple, in a kidnapping linked to a lobbying effort to loosen regulations on a billion-dollar gaming empire.
10) Six
Author
Language
English
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Description
When twelve-year-old Parker's father, on the cusp of a technological breakthrough, is kidnapped, Parker is determined to find him, but his search soon uncovers a sinister project that threatens far more than Parker's family.
12) The spirit queen
Author
Series
Firebird novel volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"When their friend Ilsbeth is kidnapped, Calliope and Prewitt the Bargeboy set out on a secret quest to save her--a quest that traps Calliope on the Nymph Isles, a place of great darkness and ancient Spirit Magic"--
14) The Leaving
Author
Language
English
Description
"Six kindergarteners were taken. Eleven years later, five come back--with no idea of where they've been. No one remembers the sixth victim, Max. Avery, Max's sister, needs to find her brother--dead or alive--and isn't buying this whole memory-loss story"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Computer security specialist Kate Ford finds herself drawn into the drama of a lurid kidnapping case with ties to her company, leading her to the country's darkest corners of power and leaving her and her family the target of a ruthless network of conspirators.
17) Bone Gap
Author
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying.
18) The safest lies
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Kelsey's agoraphobic mother disappears after years of claiming the kidnappers she escaped from were coming back for her, Kelsey quickly discovers that her mother isn't who she thought she was -- and she's not the abductor's only target"--
20) The Sable Quean
Author
Series
Redwall series [order of publication] volume 21
Redwall series [chronological order] volume 22
Redwall
Redwall series [chronological order] volume 22
Redwall
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The courageous Redwall creatures band together as Vilaya, the evil Sable Quean, and her horde of vermin attempt to make off with the young animals of the Abbey.
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