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"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...
2) Suspects
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Theodora Morgan is fashion royalty. Founder of a wildly popular online shopping service, she is one of the most successful businesswomen in the world, although she prefers to keep a low profile, especially in recent months. It was a year ago when the unthinkable struck her family: her husband, industry mogul Matthieu Pasquier, and their son were kidnapped and held for ransom - a nightmare that ended in tragedy. The case has gone cold, despite evidence...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Using her skills as a handwriting analyst to assist a local murder and kidnapping investigation, Anna identifies disturbing parallels between the crimes and her own struggles to protect her troubled teen son from her abusive ex.
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"Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees...and a collection of precious “butterflies”--young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens. When the garden is discovered, a survivor is brought in for questioning. FBI agents Victor Hanoverian...
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"Following up her instant New York Times bestseller, A Flicker in the Dark, Stacy Willingham delivers a totally gripping thriller about a desperate mother with a troubled past in All the Dangerous Things. 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,...
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Barbara is at a loss. The daughter of her friend Taymullah Azhar has been taken by her mother, and Barbara can't really help -- Azhar had never married Angelina, and his name isn't on Hadiyyah's, their daughter's, birth certificate. He has no legal claim. Azhar and Barbara hire a private detective, but the trail goes cold. Azhar is just beginning to accept his soul-crushing loss when Angelina reappears with shocking news: Hadiyyah is missing, kidnapped...
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[Larry Temple]
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"The ultimate predator kidnaps seven women for a sadistic game of his own design. The women must fight for their freedom while serving as this madman's messenger to the outside world. FBI agent Laura Spencer is thrust into the center of the investigation as she attempts to decode the messages. Do the clues lead to a killer from a generation ago or are they just a ruse to throw off the investigation? Every day brings more harrowing danger and abuse...
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A CIA agent's two-year-old son was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Now, eight years later, this torment is something Catherine Ling awakens to every day. Catherine needs to find someone as driven and obsessed as she is to help her. Eve Duncan shares her nightmare, since closure is also something that eludes Eve after the disappearance of her daughter Bonnie. As Eve gets drawn deeper into Catherine's horror, she must face looming...
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[2022]
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English
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New Orleans Detective Quinn Conners is haunted by her father's whiskey-soaked, last words -- that he solved the Hudson murder and kidnapping. It wasn't the first time he'd made that drunken claim, and she didn't believe him. Twenty-four hours later she found him dead by his own hand. Quinn blames the investigation for his downfall, so when a woman researching a book about the kidnapping contacts her for help, Quinn shuts her out. But an attempt on...
10) Now you see them
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"The fifth book in the Magic Men series, Now You See Them is a wild mystery with detective Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto, as they investigate a string of presumed kidnappings in the swinging 1960s"--
11) The family way
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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"Molly Murphy--now Molly Sullivan--is a year into her marriage, expecting her first child, and confined to the life of a housewife. The most important decision Molly faces these days is whether the lace curtains need cleaning, and she's restless and irritable in the heat of a New York summer and the enforced idleness of pregnancy. So when a trip to the post office brings a letter addressed to her old detective agency asking her to locate a missing...
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Annie Pederson novel volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"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 or not to believe a woman who claims to be her sister, Sarah, who was abducted twenty-four years ago at age five. Annie's eight-year-old daughter, Kylie, has plenty of questions about what's going on in her mother's life--but there are some stones Annie doesn't want uncovered. As Annie grapples...
15) Truly devious
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Truly devious volume 1
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English
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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.
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Daw Books
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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October "Toby" Daye is now the Countess of Goldengreen. To prevent war between land and sea, Toby must find the kidnapped sons of the regent of the Undersea Duchy of Saltmist within three days and prove that the Queen of the Mists was not responsible.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Aubrey Finch is panic-stricken after witnessing a young boy being kidnapped from the local park, but when she reports it to the police, they dismiss her story, saying no one has reported a missing child. Aubrey knows she isn't the best witness. She's a struggling single mom who seems unreliable and a little unhinged, and everyone thinks that she got it wrong or is just looking for attention. Aubrey is convinced, however, that she knows what she saw...
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Blue justice volume 02
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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For the past year, Chloe St. John has been working as a K-9 cop with her German shepherd partner, Hank. After being dumped by her fiancé for another woman, Chloe has decided that Hank is just about the only male she likes. She's over the whole romance thing and focuses her attention on doing her job. Because a serious case of human trafficking with connections to her missing cousin just landed in her lap. When US Marshall Blake MacCallum's daughter...
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Tom Thorne is enjoying a Valentine's Day break with his girlfriend, DS Helen Weeks, when he becomes involved in a case concerning two young girls who have been abducted. The prime suspect in the case is the husband of an old schoolfirend of Helen's. Thorne becomes convinced that, despite overwhelming evidence of the man's guilt, the police have got the wrong person.