kidnapping

Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is still obsessed with finding her daughter, Bonnie. No stranger to looking for clues where there seem to be none, Eve enlists the unique skills of the mysterious Dr. Megan Blair to help bring Bonnie's elusive killer to justice. The tension and danger escalates as Eve and Joe Quinn go on a hunt that can either bring them the revenge and closure that Eve has long sought or the destruction of everything she holds dear.

Throughout San Francisco, wealthy children and their nannines are disappearing. It's up to the ladies of the Women's Murder club to solve the crime, but with no ransom notes or demands, the trail looks bleak. Throughout the investigation, the club must also deal with the recent shooting of one of their members.

After having unsettling dreams about the kidnapped daughter of her mother's employer, fifteen-year-old Martika learns that she is a descendant of a long list of curanderas - Mayan medicine women with special powers. Includes glossary of Spanish words.

"On the snow-covered slopes of Utah, the unthinkable has just become a nightmarish reality: thirty Secret Service agents have been viciously executed and the vacationing president of the United States is kidnapped by one of the most lethal terrorist organizations in the Middle East--the dreaded Fatah Revolutionary Council."--front flyleaf.

The Behavioral Analysis Unit, an elite team of FBI profilers, is tasked with examining the nation's most twisted criminal minds--anticipating their next moves before they strike again.

"A January downpour descends on L.A. For a faceless kidnapper playing for million-dollar stakes, it's part of the game. So are the labyrinthine storm drains coiling under the city. If the ransom isn't paid, this is where it ends for his victims--handcuffed and drowned, washed out of the drainage lines like garbage."--back cover.

When her teenage daughter vanishes shortly after Kara Marshall and her husband put their Long Island home on the market, Kara fears the worst despite the suspicions of police that the girl is a runaway.

"When Bobby and Susan Martin come across a dirty, shivering child at their campsite, the last thing the childless couple expects is to be drawn into an unthinkable crime. But when one of the boy's kidnappers comes out of the brush waving a gun, Bobby is forced to react. In one chaotic, explosive moment, the predator is brutally murdered. But was he a criminal--or a cop? With a vicious crime ring closing in on them, and unsure of whom to trust, Bobby and Susan desperately plunge into the heart of danger to save the boy--and themselves."--back cover.

This is an edgy tale of an ex-cop - Elena Estes, who has always considered herself a "dark horse." Settling in Florida's lush horse country, she's soon on the trail of a missing girl. But proving her case may well be the death of her.

When one of their friends is kidnapped, a group of friends works together to find the culprit.