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61) The hunted
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped, beaten, and forced to relinquish his business and his fortune, Alex Konevitch and his wife escape Russia to the United States, only to be accused by his own government of stealing millions from his business. With a mob contract out on his life and the FBI hot on his trail, Alex is a desperate man without a country-facing the ultimate sacrifice for the chance to build a new life for himself and his family.
Author
Language
English
Description
From the world's #1 bestselling author comes a thrilling new standalone novel where a detective duo of sisters finds themselves in the crosshairs of a dangerous and lawless group.
"Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home after a long estrangement when she learns her father has died. There she makes two important discoveries: her father stopped being an accountant and had opened up a private detective agency, and she has a teenage half sister named Baby....
63) Devil's Lake
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After two years of brutal captivity, Portia Lamont has escaped and returned to her family's Vermont horse farm -- only to find her parents gone to New York to try an experimental treatment for her mother's cancer, and her childhood friend Boone Hawke running the farm. One thing threatens her fragile hope for recovery: the man who took her promised that if she ever escaped, he'd killer her. Slowly. And someone is definitely watching her ... waiting...
64) No time to die
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In a Washington, D.C. research lab, a brilliant scientist is attacked by his own test subjects. At Columbia University, a talented biochemist is lured out of her apartment and never seen again. In the Justice Department's new Bioethics Committee, agent Les Mahler sees a sinister pattern emerging...Zoe Kincaid is a petite college student whose rare genetic makeup may hold the key to a powerful medical breakthrough. When she is kidnapped, the very thing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When girls in Gotham City go missing, Harley Quinn is determined to track down their kidnapper. But the only way to outsmart a villain is to engage in a little villainy herself. Don't miss the adrenaline-racing conclusion to the Harley Quinn trilogy.
66) Deadly intent
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Forensic linguist Macy Reid is an expert on kidnapping, having been abducted when she was a child. So, she is the perfect investigator to be called in when a Denver tycoon's eleven-year-old daughter is abducted for the second time. But Macy's biggest stumbling block may be a member of her own team: Kellan Burke, the wise-cracking, rule- breaking investigator who relishes getting under Macy's skin and who just may be the man to help her confront the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired suspense
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In the Alaskan wilderness, there's only one way to track a serial killer: a K-9. For police captain Bre Dayton, that means working with her ex, search and rescue worker Griffin Knight. With her niece missing and possibly kidnapped, Bre has to find the murderer known as the Echo Pass Hunter--fast. Even if it means trusting the man who broke her heart...and putting herself in the killer's crosshairs."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Raised in a quiet rural community, Anna has always been taught that her mamma's rules are the only path to follow. But, on her 18th birthday, she defies her mamma for the first time in her life and goes to Astroland. She's never been allowed to visit Florida's biggest theme park, so why, when she arrives, does everything about it seem so familiar? And is there a connection to the mysterious letter she receives that same day--a letter addressing her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Three unexpected protectors one desperate victim... Former Delta Force soldier Parker Shaw won't be sidelined by his horrific war experiences. Now he's an Outrider security agent dedicated to safeguarding those in need. Having escaped abduction and imprisonment, Abby Gibson is hell-bent on rescuing the other captives. Trusting Parker is her only option. As they get closer to the dangerous truth, their attraction grows. Their choice may come down...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
When Gabrielle Ash's wife and kids were kidnapped four years ago by Somali pirates, his life spiraled out of control. He left his job working for the British government and moved to a small town where he descended into near madness. But with the help of his dog, Patience, and his friendship with young police officer Hazel Best, his focus returned. So when he discovers that his wife is still alive, Ash is once again filled with hope and fear -- hope...
71) World of wonders
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as "a modern classic," Robertson Davies’s acclaimed Deptford Trilogy is a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived series of novels, around which a mysterious death is woven. World of Wonders—the third book in the series after The Manticore—follows the story of Magnus Eisengrim—the most illustrious magician of his age—who is spirited away from his home by a member of a traveling sideshow, the...
72) Her stolen past
Author
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When Sonya Daniels finds a kidnapped baby's birth certificate hidden in her late mother's home, she's shocked. What was her family's connection to the child, still missing for over two decades? And what happened to the little girl? Sonya hires detective Brandon Hayes to help her get to the truth. But someone doesn't want the truth to come out and will stop at nothing to keep them from investigating. Sonya knows the guarded cop won't rest until he...
Author
Series
Shades of death volume 4
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen years ago Andrea James and Ellen Schrader were kidnapped and tortured for weeks. For eighteen years they have kept their silence about what really happened - about the other girl who didn't make it out alive. When Ellen commits suicide, Andrea has had enough. She will not be silent any longer. Former Special Agent Anthony LeDoux isn't sure what to make of the scrapbook and the story Andrea James presents to him and when suspects start turning...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kick Lannigan, 21, is a survivor. Abducted at age six in broad daylight, the police, the public, perhaps even her family assumed the worst had occurred. And then Kathleen Lannigan was found, alive, six years later. And a new form of hell began. In the early months following her freedom, as Kick struggled with PTSD, her parents put her through a litany of therapies -- meditation, Jungian, scream therapy. Nothing helped until the detective who rescued...
76) After the thaw
Author
Publisher
Ivory Tower Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Four years ago, Charlene Perigard survived a brutal kidnapping. Now at twenty-two, she's put that trauma behind her for a promising future with handsome firefighter Ben Jorgensen. But when new trauma strikes, a new nightmare begins. Sinister threats, a midnight attack, and a deathbed promise drive Charlene to the little town of Creekside, where she encounters a man from her past whom she has long struggled to forget: Clay Morrow--ex-convict and brother...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
TV reporter Laura Nilsson, known as the "Baghdad Babe," spent eighteen months in an Al-Qaeda compound after being kidnapped live on the air. Two years later, she's still wondering why. No mission in Javier Corbray's fourteen years as a Navy SEAL affected him the way Laura's rescue did. No woman had stirred his protective instincts the way she did. And he wants her more than he's ever wanted anyone. As Laura and Javier's passion ignites, so does...
78) Safe: a novel
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A kidnapped girl returns home after twelve years away--but coming home may not be as easy as she thought in this roller coaster ride of lies, betrayal, and secrets that just might be the twistiest thriller you'll read all year. Jenny Kristal was six years old when she was snatched off the sidewalk from her quiet suburban neighborhood. Twelve years later, she's miraculously returned home after escaping her kidnappers--but as her parents and younger...
79) The abduction
Author
Series
Kidnapped volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aiden works with the FBI in order to rescue his sister Meg, who was kidnapped.
80) Dear child
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A woman held captive finally escapes-but can she ever really get away? Gone Girl meets Room in this page-turning, #1 internationally bestselling thriller from one of Germany's hottest new talents "Chilling, original and mesmerizing." -David Baldacci Publishers Weekly Top 10 Mysteries Thrillers of Fall 2020. A windowless shack in the woods. A dash to safety. But when a woman finally escapes her captor, the end of the story is only the beginning of...