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On an ordinary morning, Maria Colson takes her baby son, Dylan, to the corner store. She turns her back for only a few seconds. When she looks again, she sees his empty stroller as Dylan is being abducted into a waiting van. Maria climbs into the van but is violently thrown to the road, where she is left for dead as the vehicle vanishes without a trace. As Maria fights for her life and her anguished young husband keeps a bedside vigil, the FBI and police across metro Sea-Tac and Washington State search for Dylan.

Tom Reed is a crime reporter with The San Francisco Star whose superb journalistic skills earned him a Pulitzer nomination. But years later Reed's life is coming apart. His editor wants him fired. His wife has left him to wrestle with his demons. Alone, Reed is tormented by the fear he may have caused the suicide of an innocent man suspected of murdering a two-year-old girl.

Lisa Taylor had friends, family, and a job she loved back in Cleveland. But when her husband, Jeff, lands the promotion of a lifetime, she gives it all up to stand by him. Their whirlwind move to Miami feels like an adventure, and their idyllic new neighborhood is the perfect place to start a family. But their dreams are shattered when a stranger breaks into their house, holding a knife to Lisa’s throat before Jeff can chase him off.

"Rick Mofina has penned a creepy, heart-pounding page-turner…. A gripping, chilling thriller from beginning to end." —Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author of The Overnight Guest Every mother worries about their child. But Sara Harmon fears hers… When a teen falls while...

The disappearance and murder of a lonely San Francisco insurance clerk puts a relentless crime reporter and a legendary homicide cop on separate tracks in their pursuit of a killer. The suspect lures solitary women out of their quiet worlds and into his nightmare as he races the clock and travels the globe searching for the one woman who will forgive the unforgivable.

Life can change in an instant. For Ryan and Karen Lane, it happens on the morning they discover their 12-year-old daughter’s window open, their beloved Maddie missing from her bed. Police investigate. Suspicions swirl. A teenage boy admits he was outside her bedroom window the night she disappeared. A halfway house for convicts recently opened in the neighborhood. The Lane family is thrown into turmoil, and then the detectives turn their sights on them.

Rookie crime reporter Jason Wade, a troubled loner from the wrong side of the tracks, pursues the story of a murdered Seattle nun. The case leads him to a hermit nun who founded a mysterious religious order; and ultimately to the dark secret that has tormented his ex-cop father for decades. It culminates in a life and death struggle against the clock. With time running out, Jason and his father battle the odds to confront a terrible truth.

San Francisco crime reporter Tom Reed is burned out. On the day he decides to finally quit the news business, a sensational story breaks. A heart-stopping robbery-homicide at a jewelry store. The suspects have shot and killed a police officer before fleeing with a female hostage. Reed rushes to the scene, his passion resurrected for one last big story. Arriving at the chaos, Reed is stunned to learn from a staff member, still clutching a receipt, that the hostage is his wife, Ann Reed.

Thirteen-year-old Tyler Price is struggling with his parents’ divorce as he pinballs between their apartments in Manhattan. One day after school a troubled old man sits next to him on a city bus. His voice filled with fear, the man says, “the awakening” has begun. The man thrusts a satchel at Tyler, telling him to never let it go, minutes before he is killed in a traffic accident while fleeing police. Against the backdrop of a series of strange happenings in New York City, Tyler and his friend, Ella Shaw, become fugitives hunted by police who want the satchel.

Jeff Griffin, a mechanic, and his wife, Sarah, travel from Montana to Manhattan to give their nine-year-old son, Cole, his dream vacation as they secretly face the heart-wrenching turmoil that has them teetering on divorce. In the wake of their heartbreak, a mother and son disappear. While sightseeing near Times Square, Jeff steps into a store to buy batteries for their camera - but upon returning to the street he finds that Sarah and Cole have vanished. Battling his anguish and police suspicions, Jeff fights to rescue them.

A personal message written in human blood is left for crime reporter Molly Wilson at the murder scene of her boyfriend, San Francisco Homicide Inspector Cliff Hooper. The horrific death of a revered cop shocks the San Francisco Police Department's Homicide Detail. Shaken to the core, his grieving fellow detectives go flat out to find his killer under the glare of the city's news media.

Cuando dos excursionistas encuentran a un niño traumatizado que deambula solo por un rincón remoto de las montañas Adirondack, en el estado de Nueva York, siguen sus pasos hasta una cabaña, donde hacen un horrible descubrimiento. El periodista de sucesos Ray Wyatt recibe el encargo de indagar en el perturbador caso, mientras McDade y Wyatt tendrán que poner sus vidas en juego en una lucha contrarreloj para descubrir la verdad detrás de uno de los crímenes más atroces de la historia del estado de Nueva York.

Auf einem Flug von Mexiko-Stadt nach Los Angeles erhascht Wanda Stroud einen schicksalhaften Blick auf den Laptop des Passagiers in der Sitzreihe vor ihr. Am nächsten Tag erscheint sie nicht zu ihrer Verabredung zum Kaffee mit einer Freundin. Special Agent Jill McDade wird in die Lösung des Falles verwickelt, der Verbindungen zu zwielichtigen Netzwerken im Dark Web hat und weit über die Grenzen der USA hinausreicht.

When six-year-old Gabriel vanishes from Central Park, his mother, news anchor Corina Corado, is desperate for answers. Who would take her son – and why? Detectives suspect there's a connection to the barrage of hate mail Corina's received over the years. In her line of work, it's not unusual for agitated conspiracy theorists to send messages that threaten violence ... or worse.

Düstere Geheimnisse. In Seattle wurde eine Nonne grausam ermordet. Mordermittler Jason Wade setzt sich auf die Spur des Killers. Sehr bald muss er feststellen, dass ihn dieser Fall auch persönlich betrifft. Denn die Ermittlungen führen ihn in das Umfeld einer rätselhaften Einsiedlerin und ihrer Gefolgsleute – und mitten in ein düsteres Geheimnis. Und damit in die bösen Erinnerungen seines Vaters, der ebenfalls Ermittler gewesen ist. Gemeinsam stellen sich Vater und Sohn einer schrecklichen Wahrheit und einem tödlichen Wettlauf gegen die Zeit.

Cuando Wanda Stroud, una bibliotecaria jubilada, vuela de regreso a Los Ángeles desde Ciudad de México, ve algo inquietante en el ordenador portátil del pasajero que tiene delante. Al día siguiente, Wanda había quedado con una amiga para tomar café, pero no apareció, algo muy inusual en ella. El periodista Ray Wyatt investiga la desaparición mientras se aferra a la esperanza de que su hijo, Danny, todavía esté vivo.

Samantha Moore, una universitaria de Queens, de camino a Canadá con su novio para empezar una nueva vida cuando desaparece sin dejar rastro en un pequeño motel de Vermont. Su desaparición no es más que el último de una serie de extraños sucesos que han ocurrido durante décadas en los solitarios bosques de Vermont. Tras un macabro hallazgo relacionado con el caso, la agente del FBI Jill McDade es enviada a Vermont, donde su camino vuelve a cruzarse con el del veterano periodista Ray Wyatt, encargado de investigar el misterio en torno a la joven desaparecida.

Enhver forælder kender til et øjebliks panik … men denne gang er det alvor.

En forsvunden datter, en familie med hemmeligheder, en desperat jagt efter sandheden …

På en rasteplads i nærheden af Las Vegas forsvinder fjortenårige Riley Jarrett fra familiens autocamper, og det, der skulle have været en ny begyndelse, forvandles til et mareridt.

A missing daughter, a family with secrets, a race for the truth… At a truck stop near Las Vegas, fourteen-year-old Riley Jarrett vanishes from her family’s RV, turning their cross-country dream of starting over into a nightmare. Investigators have their work cut out for them. The massive, bustling truck plaza in the desert is the perfect place for someone to disappear - or be taken. Detectives pursue every chilling lead as all eyes fall to the newly blended family with a tragic past. With the clock ticking down on the likelihood that Riley’s alive, suspicions run deep.

Samantha Moore, eine College-Studentin aus Queens, ist mit ihrem Freund auf dem Weg nach Kanada, um ein neues Leben zu beginnen, als sie aus einem einsamen Motel in Vermont verschwindet. Bald wird klar, dass der Fall Moore nur einer von vielen seltsamen Vorfällen ist, die sich in den abgelegenen Wäldern von Vermont ereignen. Eine neue, unheilvolle Entdeckung in dem Fall ruft die FBI-Agentin Jill McDade auf den Plan, und wieder einmal kreuzen sich ihre und Ray Wyatts Wege.