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Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
"Janie Klassyn was only fourteen years old when she made the blood pact with her friends. She could never imagine she was setting in motion the horrifying crime that would tear her peaceful prairie town apart. Twenty years later in California, school counselor Emma Grant struggles to keep her past buried. But when she finds a note on her car threatening to reveal her secret, it becomes harder to keep up the deception. Even her teenage stepdaughter...
3) Last seen
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A Chicago crime reporter's idyllic home life comes undone when his child disappears in this thriller by the USA Today–bestselling author of Six Seconds.
As a reporter for a big Chicago newspaper, Cal Hudson has journeyed into society's darkest corners and expose the vilest crimes. But the world he and his wife share with their nine-year-old son is much nicer. They have made sure of it, creating a tranquil haven in suburban River Ridge to protect...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Families with nothing to hide don't have so many secrets.
Life can change in an instant. For Ryan and Karen Lane, it happens on the morning they discover their twelve-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...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A loving family, fracturing under pressure…
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...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
THE SOLE SURVIVOR OF A HEARTBREAKING FAMILY TRAGEDY...
Claire Bowen, a haunted psychologist, devotes her life to helping troubled women rebuild theirs. But her dream of a family with her new husband, Robert, a pilot and local hero, begins to crumble as disturbing revelations from his past emerge.
AND A GRIEVING COP WHO LURES A KILLER FROM THE SHADOWS...
Detective Joe Tanner, struggling to overcome his wife's death while raising their little...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Family ties run deep. Family secrets run deeper. Investigators discover Jenn has troubling secrets, but she isn't the only one. With the threads of their picture-perfect life unraveling, Greg is forced to confront the lies that hold their marriage together--and a dark past that refuses to stay buried. Perfect wife. Doting mom. Jennifer Griffin was loved by everyone, including the women in her suburban-neighborhood book club. Their meetings sometimes...
Author
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"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, their idyllic new neighborhood 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. Suddenly, every sacrifice...
Author
Series
Jack Gannon thrillers volume 2
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"The Panic Zone is a headlong rush toward Armageddon. Its brisk pace and tight focus remind me of early Michael Crichton."-Dean Koontz, #1 New York Times bestselling author
A car crashes in Wyoming: A young mother is thrown clear of the devastating crash. Dazed, she sees a figure pull her son from the flames. Or does she? The police believe it's trauma playing tricks on the mind, until the woman hears a voice on the phone: "Your baby is alive."
A...
10) Vengeance road
Author
Series
Jack Gannon thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"Vengeance Road is a thriller with no speed limit! It's a great read!"-Michael Connelly,#1 New York Times bestselling author
The body of Bernice Hogan, a troubled young former nursing student with a tragic past, is found in a shallow grave near a forest creek. Jolene Peller, a single mom struggling to build a new life with her little boy, vanishes the night she tries to find Bernice. Hero cop Karl Styebeck is beloved by his community, but privately...
11) In desperation
Author
Series
Jack Gannon thrillers volume 3
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"A superbly written thriller...Timely, tense, and terrifying."-Brad Thor
"A blisteringly paced story that cuts to the bone. It left me ripping through pages deep into the night."-James Rollins
Eleven-year-old Tilly Martin is dragged from her suburban bedroom. Her mother, Cora, pleads for mercy but the kidnappers are clear: if they don't get their $5 million back in five days, Tilly dies. If anyone contacts police, Tilly dies.
Journalist Jack...
12) Six seconds
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A vengeful woman who aches for her place in paradise...
In Iraq an aid worker who lost her husband and child in a brutal attack saves the life of an American contractor. Believing he can help her avenge her family's deaths, she follows him back home to the United States.
An anguished mother desperate to find her child...
In California a soccer mom arrives to pick up her son from school, only to discover that her husband has taken their child...
13) Whirlwind
Author
Series
Kate Page novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A novel of breathtaking suspense from an author whose books are "edge-of-your-seat thrilling. Page-turners that don't let up" (Louise Penny, #1 New York Times–bestselling author).
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,...
14) Every second
Author
Series
Kate Page novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Tick, tock. Time is running out. "An all-American family with the nice house, good yard, sunny life and then: pandemonium . . . one of Mofina's best yet." -The Globe and Mail
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...
15) Full tilt
Author
Series
Kate Page novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"An intricate and absorbing plot, leading to a chilling conclusion . . . another powerhouse thriller" from the USA Today–bestselling author of Whirlwind (Fresh Fiction).
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.
In Manhattan,...
16) Free fall
Author
Series
Kate Page novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"A terrifying race against time as airplanes start falling out of the sky for unknown reasons . . . The kind of thriller that keeps you up late." -The Big Thrill
High above the Adirondack Mountains, a commuter flight to New York City turns into a rolling, twisting nightmare, plunging from the sky before the crew regains control. Then, in London, a jetliner crashes into the runway, killing fifteen people.
Reporter Kate Page believes something...
17) The burning edge
Author
Series
Jack Gannon thrillers volume 4
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Rick Mofina's tense, taut writing makes every thriller he writes an adrenaline-packed ride."-Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author
Single mother Lisa Palmer has barely recovered from the sudden death of her husband when she is drawn into a new nightmare. On her way home from upstate New York, Lisa stops at a service center minutes before an armored car heist. Four men are executed before her eyes-one of them an off-duty FBI agent Lisa...
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