Steve Forrester, the only witness to a kidnapping that doesn't seem to have occurred, sorts through a medley of clues to solve a mystery in his Long Island town.
When Molly is hired to care for a child on Netaquid Island, she uncovers the truth about a kidnapping of the previous summer and becomes involved in an even more disastrous kidnapping.
When alien dogs visit Lugenheimer Elementary School during the fifth-grade fundraiser--a dog wash--to select human pets for their home planet, Bowwowwowwow, Bob and Clementine and their superhero friend, Hot Dog, must stop them.
When the Bobbsey twins try to help a famous pianist who is on tour in America from his native country and who has been receiving threats against himself, the man's daughter is kidnapped.
While waiting for her parents to arrive in Paris, a twelve-year-old American girl becomes an inadvertent accomplice in trying to save the young sultan of a small Arab state from being abducted by his enemies.
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.
After she witnesses the fatal shooting of an FBI agent, Dr. Ellie Sullivan is targeted by a shadowy criminal couple called the Landrys; and, after Agent Max Daniels pledges to protect Ellie until she takes the witness stand, the two of them find their close quarters leading to passionate feelings.