DescriptionWhen the first bullet hit my chest, I thought of my daughter. Dr Marc Seidman is living in New Jersey with his new wife, Monica, and their baby daughter, Tara, when the shocking attack occurs. When he wakes in the hospital, he learns that Monica is dead…
DescriptionAfter earning rave reviews with Falling Off Air, Catherine Sampson's second novel has British documentary filmmaker Robin Ballantyne in Cambodia filming a documentary about land mines. But her main goal is to get information about a friend of hers who disappeared mysteriously. Working on documentaries for the Corporation, Robin's latest project is to research stories of people who have disappeared. But when she asks questions about missing Corporation camerawoman Melanie Trent, she gets the attention of one of her shadowy superiors, who attempts to warn her off. Why is the Corporation so desperate to keep this case under wraps? A murder, a kidnapping, and an accident with a landmine make Robin more determined than ever to find out the truth, risking her life in the process.
DescriptionLiberty Market Ltd is a firm that provides a very specialized service. To people at risk, they advise on how best not to be kidnapped. If a kidnap has already taken place, they help out with negotiations, endeavoring to get the victim back alive for the least possible cost. When Alessia Cenci, 23-year-old champion girl jockey, is grabbed in Bologna, Liberty Market Ltd sends in their agent Andrew Douglas to secure her release. For Andrew, the bungling of the Italian police is only the first in a chain of catastrophic events he can't control.
DescriptionAgent Ana Grey (familiar to Smith's readers from North of Montana ) is working on the Santa Monica Kidnapping, in which Juliana, a fifteen-year-old girl has been abducted. Grey is paired with Detective Andrew Berringer of the Santa Monica Police Department. Grey and Berringer have worked together before, and they've been doing more than just cooperating. When the victim turns up, traumatized into a terror of the world, Ana cannot help but empathize too much, viewing her own life from the perspective of Juliana's victimized one. Does Andrew have an evil side that is about to turn on her? She cannot tell. At the limits of her own sanity, she shoots him. Out on bail, she must investigate both the kidnapper's case, and her own.
DescriptionShe was little and quick and pretty. Her mother nicknamed her Colibri, Spanish for "Hummingbird". At age four she was kidnapped, torn from her parents on a crowded bus in Guatemala City. Since then she's traveled with "Uncle", the ex-soldier and wandering…
