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1) Wild houses
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The riotous, raucous, and deeply resonant debut novel from "one of the best story writers in the English language today" (Financial Times), Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry. With his acclaimed and award-winning collections Young Skins and Homesickness Colin Barrett cemented his reputation as one of contemporary Irish literature's most daring stylists. Praised by Oprah Daily as...
3) Obsession
Author
Series
Teddy Fay novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brought in to recover a young Croatian billionaire’s wife, who was kidnapped while her husband was making a deal with Centurion Studios, Teddy Fay quickly comes to realize dark forces are at play, while dealing with an obsessive fan with deadly intentions who weasels his way onto the film set.
4) Rescate gris
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Un volcn cubre tu pueblo de ceniza Han secuestrado a tu mujer Tu da acaba de empezar Puerto Deseado, Patagonia Argentina, 1991. Ral Ibez necesita dos trabajos para llegar a fin de mes. Cuando apaga el despertador para ir al primero de ellos, sabe que algo va mal. Su pequeo pueblo ha amanecido cubierto por la ceniza de un volcn y Graciela, su mujer, no est en casa. Todo parece indicar que Graciela se ha ido por voluntad propia... hasta que recibe la...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Traversing the Big Brother generation, this cautionary tale follows Mélanie, a social media superstar who broadcasts her children's daily lives on a family YouTube channel, and Clara, the young police officer assigned to the case after Mélanie’s daughter is kidnapped.
8) Cryptid kids
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2023-]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Before she moves away to a new city, Penny wants to prove that she was truly saved from drowning by the Bawk-ness Monster but instead must rescue kidnapped cryptids from an evil collector along with Luc and K"-- Provided by publisher.
9) The trap
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One year ago, Lucy's sister, Nicki, left to meet friends at a pub in Dublin and never came home. The third Irish woman to vanish inexplicably in as many years, the agony of not knowing what happened that night has turned Lucy's life into a waking nightmare. So, she's going to take matters into her own hands. Angela works as a civilian paper-pusher in the Missing Persons Unit, but wants nothing more than to be a fully-fledged member of An Garda Síochána,...
10) Furie
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Vietnamese
Description
After a girl is taken by a trafficking ring, the kidnappers discover that her mother is a former violent gang leader who will stop at nothing to retrieve her daughter.
Author
Series
Department Q volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Receiving a sealed bottle with a years-old plea for help by two young victims imprisoned in a boathouse by the sea, Detective Carl Mørck follows leads to a desperate woman trapped in a brutal marriage to a man who keeps her in isolation and hides deadly secrets.
Author
Series
Teddy Fay novel volume 6
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
"While filming on location in scenic Santa Barbara, California, Peter Barrington and Ben Bacchetti look to expand Centurion Picture's business by making a deal with a young Croatian billionaire. But when the magnate's wife is kidnapped, Teddy Fay is brought in to assess the threat and recover the young woman as quickly as possible. As Teddy unravels the threads of her disappearance, he quickly comes to find that darker forces are at play and an old...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world - she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star - in the make-believe world of the movies. But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes all too real. Now she is in the hands of the dastardly...
16) Big time
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
What if time could be taken from us—the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it mean for the world? And what would it do to the person from whom it's taken? Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat in the Food and Drug Administration, a woman who once brimmed with purpose but somehow turned into a middle-aged single mom with a dull government job and a melancholy sense that life has passed...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espa�nol, una divisiaon de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Primera ediciaon Vintage Espa�nol.
Language
Español
Description
Abducted youth Luke Ellis is imprisoned in an inescapable institute, where children with the abilities of telekinesis and telepathy are subjected to torturous manipulation.
Author
Publisher
GCP, Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Investigation, In Light of All Darkness embeds readers in one of the most famous true-crime stories of our generation--the kidnapping of Polly Klaas--a case as pivotal in the history of the FBI as the Unabomber or Oklahoma City bombing. On October 1, 1993, a 12-year-old girl was kidnapped at knifepoint from her bedroom in Petaluma, California, during a...
Author
Series
Asker volume 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"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Best friends don't always have the best intentions. On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering - with a jolt of fear - that she is responsible for the kidnapping that has instantly shattered...
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