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Series
Women's Murder Club volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When one member of the Women's Murder Club is brutally attacked, her three companions work to keep her attacker behind bars, while Lindsay Boxer investigates a series of kidnappings in which children and their nannies are being abducted without ransom demands.
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross is thwarted at every turn while he attempts to investigate the abduction of the president's son and daughter and also discovers a deadly contagion released in the capital's water supply that foreshadows a larger, more devastating attack.
Author
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a prominent Chicago judge and his socialite wife, inner-city art teacher Mia Dennett is taken hostage by her one-night stand, Colin Thatcher, who, instead of delivering her to his employers, hides her in a secluded cabin in rural Minnesota to keep her safe from harm.
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
At the outset of his career with the FBI, Alex Cross is instructed to track down a band of kidnappers who are snatching people and possibly selling them into slavery, a case that is complicated by a terrible threat to Cross's own family.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Dr. Ellie Sullivan is the primary witness in the shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of wanted criminals, a couple identified as the Landrys. The Landrys have been captured, and she'll be called to testify. But they've been captured before, and each time the witnesses are scared into silence-- or disappear before they can take the stand.
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
Former government operative Cotton Malone teams with old heartthrob Cassiopeia Vitt on a dangerous mission to retrieve a priceless Chinese lamp from the third century B.C.E.
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Too bad former secret agent Cotton Malone knows how to unearth the lost contents of the Library of Alexandria; now his bookstore has been ransacked and his son kidnapped."--From source other than the Library of Congress
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: First there was Alex Cross. Then there was the Women's Murder Club. With the unexpected death of a beloved former first lady, the nation falls into mourning as the world's most powerful people gather in New York for her funeral. Then the inconceivable occurs. Billionaires, politicians, and superstars of every kind are suddenly trapped by one man's brilliant and ruthless scenario. Now meet detective Michael Bennett, NYPD. Pulled...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 10
Language
English
Description
Jack Reacher comes to the aid of Edward Lane, the head of an illegal soldiers-for-hire operation, who enlists Reacher's assistance to find and stop a kidnapper who has abducted Lane's wife and child.
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
He had always wanted to be famous. When he kidnapped two well-known rich kids it was headline news. Then one of them was found--dead. For such a high-profile case, they needed Alex Cross, police psychologist, and Jezzie Flanagan, a Secret Service agent, and even they were no match for the killer.
15) Rough weather
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 36
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Parker once again proves he is a force of nature in this mystery where a hurricane hinders a kidnapping and Spenser goes on a search for the man responsible--the infamous Gray Man, who has both helped and hunted Spenser in the past.
16) Hostage
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
It's 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg, a professional storyteller and writer, has been taken hostage. He has been abducted from his home in Brooklyn, New York, blindfolded and tied to a chair in a dark basement. His captors, an Arab and an Italian, don't explain why Shaltiel has been chosen, just that his life will be bartered for the freedom of three Palestinian prisoners. As his days of waiting commence, Shaltiel resorts to what he does best, telling...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In 1977, aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and presidents, and veteran of countless USO tours to boost morale, is kidnapped by the five remaining members of the self-proclaimed People's Revolutionary Army who want to bring their cause back to life.
19) Falling
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Language
English
Description
There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers on your flight. What you don't know is that your pilot's family was kidnapped. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight.
Author
Series
Vanessa Michael Munroe novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped by a human trafficking ring that demands that she help transport a high-profile starlet or risk the murder of her best friend, maverick information specialist Vanessa Michael Munroe is plunged into a harrowing underground world under the brutal control of a shadowy overlord.
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