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Series
His dark materials volume 1
Description
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
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Series
Firm volume 2
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham delivers high-flying international suspense in a stunning new legal thriller that marks the return of Mitch McDeere, the brilliant hero of The Firm. What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? The answer is in The Exchange, the riveting sequel to The Firm, the blockbuster thriller that launched the career of...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains,...
8) Kidnapped
Author
Series
Irene Kelly mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
x, 366 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
In the years following an emotional family tragedy, Irene Kelly and her detective husband, Frank Harriman, face a shocking DNA revelation.
Author
Publisher
Prospect Park Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In this fast-moving, fast-talking legal thriller, brash young New York lawyer Tom Weldon happens to witness the 2 a.m. murder of a business tycoon and finds himself held captive with the murdered man's arrogant daughter. The two escape and go on the run, trying to stay one step ahead of a hitwoman while Tom unravels the mystery behind the violence. Alan Hruska is the author of the novelsPardon the Ravens andWrong Man Running, the writer of several...
10) The husband
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"We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash." Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was in the middle of planting impatiens in the yard of one of his clients when his cell phone rang. Now he's standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare.
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The memoir of Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped on June 10, 1991 from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California, when she was 11 years old. She was held prisoner by convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy Garrido. She was held captive by the Garridos for over eighteen years, all the while living in a tent on the Garrido property. During her captivity she gave birth to two children fathered by Garrido. She reappeared...
12) The chain
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The morning starts like any other. Rachel Klein drops her daughter, Kylie, at the bus stop and heads into her day. But then a cell phone call from an unknown number and gagged in her back seat and the only way Rachel will ever see her again is if she pays a ransom -- and kidnaps another child. The caller is a mother herself, whose son has also been abducted, and if Rachel doesn't do exactly as she's told, the boy will die, and so will Kylie. Rachel...
13) Daddy love
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
279 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Dinah Whitcomb seemingly has everything. A loving and successful husband, and a smart, precocious young son named Robbie. One day, their worlds are shattered when Dinah is attacked and Robbie is taken in a mall parking lot. Dinah, injured, attempts to follow, but is run over by the kidnapper's van, mangling her body nearly beyond repair. As Dinah recovers from her wounds, her world and her marriage struggle to exist every day. Though it seems hopeless,...
14) Purgatory Bay
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Jubilee Rathman is a straight-A student and star soccer goalie destined for Princeton&;until her family is brutally murdered. Twelve years later, she lives in a virtual fortress on Purgatory Bay near Bleak Harbor, plotting revenge on the people she considers responsible."--Amazon.com.
15) Riding the rap
Author
Series
Raylan Givens thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 24 cm.
Author
Series
Collector trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
""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...
18) Shooting star
Author
Publisher
Text Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 20 cm
Description
Frank Calder is tasked with retrieving fifteen year old Anne Carson from kidnappers, the Carson Family, no strangers to kidnapping give Frank strict instructions that create questions about links between the kidnappings.
19) What comes next
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
448 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
After the police falter in their investigation, a retired college professor vows to track down a young woman he witnessed being snatched off the street, kidnapped by a sadistic couple who put their victim's slow torture up for public display on the Internet.
20) Heart of junk
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
240 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The city of Wichita, Kansas, is wracked with panic over the abduction of toddler pageant princess Lindy Bobo. However, the dealers at The Heart of America Antique Mall are too preoccupied by their own neurotic compulsions to take much notice. Postcards, perfume bottles, Barbies, vinyl records, kitschy neon beer signs-they collect and sell it all. Rather than focus on Lindy, this colorful cast of characters is consumed by another drama: the impending...
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