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On a quiet night in their tranquil suburban home, the Fulton family awakens to a nightmare. Four armed men force bank manager Dan Fulton to steal a quarter million dollars from his branch-strapping remote-detonation bombs on him, his wife, Lori, and their young son. The FBI moves swiftly with a major investigation while Kate Page, a reporter with a newswire service, digs deep into the story. In the wake of the Fulton family's abduction, questions emerge, including one of the most troubling: is the case linked to Lori Fulton's tragic past?

Deep in the woods of upstate New York a woman flees a blazing barn. She is burned beyond recognition, and her dying words point police to a labyrinth of "confinement rooms"—rooms designed to hold human beings captive—where they make other chilling discoveries.

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.

Ein guter Tag zum Sterben... Nicht weit von Seattle gerät die Studentin Karen Harding in ein fürchterliches Unwetter. Dann gibt auf dem verlassenen nächtlichen Highway auch noch ihr Wagen den Geist auf. Als ein Fremder anhält, um ihr zu helfen, ist die junge Frau sehr erleichtert. Zu spät wird ihr klar, dass der Mann sie offenbar schon länger beobachtet... Der junge Reporter Jason Wade wittert eine Riesenchance, als er vom Fall einer Studentin hört, die auf einem Highway spurlos verschwunden ist.

When a killer tornado rips through a Dallas flea market, a kind stranger helps Jenna Cooper protect her baby boy. But in the aftermath, Jenna can't find her son or the woman who'd been holding him. Upon discovering the tragedy, reporter and single mom Kate Page, battling for her career and trying to hold her life together, vows to determine what happened to tiny Caleb Cooper.

Samantha Moore, en universitetsstuderende fra Queens, er på vej til Canada med sin kæreste for at starte et nyt liv, da hun forsvinder fra et ensomt, billigt motel i Vermont. Det skal hurtigt vise sig, at Moore-sagen er én ud af mange mærkelige hændelser, der finder sted i Vermonts øde skove. På grund af en ny ildevarslende opdagelse i sagen tilkaldes FBI-agent Jill McDade, og endnu engang krydser hendes og Ray Wyatts veje hinanden. Wyatt, en erfaren journalist, der kæmper med det tragiske tab af sin kone og søn, har fået til opgave at dykke ned i mysteriet om den unge kvindes forsvinden.

Nogle vandreturister finder en traumatiseret dreng, der går alene rundt i et afsides hjørne af Adirondack-bjergene i staten New York. De følger hans spor tilbage til en hytte. Her gør de et gruopvækkende fund, der starter en efterforskning, som kriminalreporteren Ray Wyatt og FBI-agenten Jill McDade bliver involveret i. Wyatt sættes på den foruroligende sag, mens han stadig hjemsøges af tabet af sin søn og sin kone nogle år tidligere. Tiden er imod McDade og Wyatt, der kæmper for at finde frem til sandheden bag en af de mest samvittighedsløse forbrydelser i staten New Yorks historie.

Ein entführtes Kind. Eine schwerverletzte Mutter. Ein ungelöster Mordfall. An einem ganz gewöhnlichen Morgen geht Maria Colson mit ihrem kleinen Sohn Dylan zum Einkaufen. Nur ein paar Sekunden lässt sie ihn aus den Augen – dann ist der Kinderwagen leer. Maria versucht noch, die Entführer zu stoppen, aber sie wird brutal auf die Straße gestoßen, und der Van verschwindet spurlos. Während Maria im Krankenhaus um ihr Leben kämpft und ihr Mann an ihrem Bett Wache hält, suchen FBI und Polizei fieberhaft nach dem kleinen Dylan.

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.

In Before Sunrise, Will Fortin of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is on patrol in southern Alberta. This is where Fortin experiences the worst any cop can face, the taking of innocent lives while under fire in responding to a violent call at a farm involving a gun. His life destroyed, his guilt unbearable, Fortin, a good man, struggles as a haunted soul, aching to redeem himself. Years after the shooting, Fortin is assigned to escort a murderer from a Canadian prison to trial in Seattle, Washington. Then their plane crashes in the unforgiving Rocky Mountains....

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rick Mofina’s best-selling novels find an all-new urgency when coupled with pulse-pounding narrations from Recorded Books. In The Panic Zone, seemingly unrelated events bring the world closer to calamity. A distraught mother witnesses a stranger nab her infant. A bomb explodes in Rio. A cruise ship passenger suffers a horrific death. Caught in the middle, Jack Gannon is headed right into the panic zone—but the further on the edge, the hotter the intensity.

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.

Cal Hudson knows the world can be an ugly place. As a reporter for a big Chicago newspaper, he's journeyed into the darkest corners to expose the vilest crimes, but the world he and his devoted wife, Faith, share is much nicer. They've made sure of it, creating a tranquil haven in suburban River Ridge to protect their precious nine-year-old son. But then the unthinkable happens: he vanishes. In a split second at a local carnival, their storybook world begins unraveling.

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.

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.

Jason Wade struggles with his haunting past as he pursues the story of Karen Harding, a college student whose car was found abandoned on a lonely stretch of highway in the Pacific Northwest. How could this beloved young woman with the altruistic nature simply vanish? Wade battles mounting odds and cut-throat competition to unearth the truth behind Karen Harding's disturbing case. Her disappearance is a story he cannot give up, never realizing the toll it could exact from him.