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61) Besieged
Author
Series
Jake Mahegan thrillers volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
64) Girl, stolen
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When an impulsive carjacking turns into a kidnapping, Griffin, a high school dropout, finds himself more in sympathy with his wealthy, blind victim, sixteen-year-old Cheyenne, than with his greedy father.
65) Ransom
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A violent crime brings together four people, including a widow, a convicted murder, an ex-con trying to rebuild his life, and a detective, in a novel that explores the effects of violence on the lives of ordinary people.
66) Taken
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike-and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocent victims but also on one another-buying, selling, and stealing victims like commodities. Fortunately, the kidnappers...
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of contemporary science fiction's most acclaimed writers, and with this new novel, he once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive these forces. But his setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world--rather, he imagines a more hopeful...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Son of an ex-FBI agent, Miles Kettering, six-year-old Sam Kettering is kidnapped and taken to eastern Tennessee. The boy manages to escape. But the kidnappers do not give up. Miles Kettering joins Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich to investigate why the kidnappers want this little boy so badly - and they also soon find themselves ineluctably drawn into the investigation of the murders of three math teachers in the Washington, D.C. area.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
In London, a woman parliamentarian's daughter is kidnapped and a newspaper editor with whom the parliamentarian had an affair receives a call, threatening the girl's life unless he admits paternity. Inspector Lynley suspects the girl is behind it.
72) Wither
Author
Series
Chemical Garden trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
73) Long lost
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Successful architect Brad Denning finds his perfect existence shattered when a man claiming to be his long-lost brother kidnaps his wife and son, forcing Brad to find his family before a dark secret from his past is exposed.
74) Hunting fear
Author
Series
Bishop special crimes unit volume 7
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Psychic investigator Lucas Jordan, sought after by police throughout the nation for his ability to locate missing people, responds to what seems to be a routine string of kidnappings and finds himself targeted by a ruthless adversary.
75) Buried secrets
Author
Series
Nick Heller novels volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
76) On the line
Author
Series
Lydia Chin and Bill Smith mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Author
Series
Scot Harvath thrillers volume 12
Language
English
Description
When a string of high-profile kidnappings in Washington, D.C., escalate upon the discovery that the victims are being murdered, an eventual ransom demand triggers terror throughout the country and covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath is summoned to put an end to the crisis.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Finally putting his difficult childhood behind him, Thomas Bolden is carving out a successful Wall Street career, until a bizarre kidnapping sends him on the run from a mysterious organization framing him for crimes he did not commit.
80) Two graves
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Special Agent Pendergast assists NYPD Lieutenant D'Agosta in the investigation of a number of killings that ultimately prove to be messages from his wife's kidnappers.
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