“What are the best books about Kidnapping?” We looked at 214 of the top Kidnapping books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 19 titles, all appearing on 2 or more “Best Kidnapping” book lists, are ranked below by how many lists they appear on. The remaining 175+ titles, as well as the lists we used are in alphabetical order at the bottom of the page.
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Fueled by an obsession to fill the void in other people’s lives, Milla Edge finds lost children—all the while trying to outrun the brutal emotions stemming from a tragedy in her past. Traveling to a small village in Mexico on a reliable tip, Milla begins to uncover the dire fate of countless children who have disappeared in the labyrinth of a sinister baby-smuggling ring. The key to nailing down the organization may rest with an elusive one-eyed man. As Milla’s search for him intensifies, the mission becomes more treacherous. For the ring is part of something far larger and more dangerous, reaching the highest echelons of power. Racing into peril, Milla suddenly finds herself the hunted—in the crosshairs of an invisible, lethal assassin who aims to silence her permanently.
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Liam “Hunter” Blake hates the Reapers MC. Born and raised a Devil’s Jack, he knows his duty. He’ll defend his club from their oldest enemies-the Reapers-using whatever weapons he can find. But why use force when the Reapers’ president has a daughter who’s alone and vulnerable? Hunter has wanted her from the minute he saw her, and now he has an excuse to take her. Em has lived her entire life in the shadow of the Reapers. Her overprotective father, Picnic, is the club’s president. The last time she had a boyfriend, Picnic shot him. Now the men in her life are far more interested in keeping her daddy happy than showing her a good time. Then she meets a handsome stranger-a man who isn’t afraid to treat her like a real woman. One who isn’t afraid of her father. His name is Liam, and he’s The One. Or so she thinks.
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When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a ‘Have You Seen This Child?’ flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something about it makes her look again, and her heart stops; the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. Her every instinct tells her to deny the similarity between the boys, because she knows her adoption was lawful. But she’s a journalist and won’t be able to stop thinking about the photo until she figures out the truth. And she can’t shake the question: if Will rightfully belongs to someone else, should she keep him or give him up? She investigates, uncovering clues no one was meant to discover, and when she digs too deep, she risks losing her own life; and that of the son she loves. Lisa Scottoline breaks new ground in Look Again, a thriller that’s both heart-stopping and heart-breaking, and sure to have new fans and book clubs buzzing.
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From #1 New York Times best-selling author Sandra Brown comes a heart-pounding story of survival, that takes the age-old question, “Does the end justify the means?” and turns it on its head. Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. By the time her husband Jeff, miffed over a recent argument, reports her missing, the trail has grown cold. Literally. Fog and ice encapsulate the mountainous wilderness and paralyze the search for her. While police suspect Jeff of “instant divorce,” Emory, suffering from an unexplained head injury, regains consciousness and finds herself the captive of a man whose violent past is so dark that he won’t even tell her his name. She’s determined to escape him, and willing to take any risks necessary to survive. Unexpectedly, however, the two have a dangerous encounter with people who adhere to a code of justice all their own. At the center of the dispute is a desperate young woman whom Emory can’t turn her back on, even if it means breaking the law. Wrong becomes right at the hands of the man who strikes fear, but also sparks passion. As her husband’s deception is revealed, and the FBI closes in on her captor, Emory begins to wonder if the man with no name is, in fact, her rescuer from those who wish her dead – and from heartbreak. Combining the nail-biting suspense and potent storytelling that has made Sandra Brown one of the world’s best loved authors, MEAN STREAK is a wildly compelling novel about love, deceit, and the choices we must make in order to survive.
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#1 internationally bestselling author Karin Slaughter returns with a sophisticated and chilling psychological thriller of dangerous secrets, cold vengeance, and unexpected absolution, in which two estranged sisters must come together to find truth about two harrowing tragedies, twenty years apart, that devastate their lives. Sisters. Strangers. Survivors. More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss—a devastating wound that’s cruelly ripped open when Claire’s husband is killed. The disappearance of a teenage girl and the murder of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? Forming a wary truce, the surviving sisters look to the past to find the truth, unearthing the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago . . . and uncovering the possibility of redemption, and revenge, where they least expect it. Powerful, poignant, and utterly gripping, packed with indelible characters and unforgettable twists, Pretty Girls is a masterful thriller from one of the finest suspense writers working today.
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Rescued from sexual slavery by a mysterious Pakistani officer, Caleb carries the weight of a debt that must be paid in blood.
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On the day she was abducted, Annie O’Sullivan, a 32-year-old realtor, had three goals—sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever-patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she’s about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all. Still Missing interweaves the year Annie spent as the captive of a psychopath in a remote mountain cabin, which unfold through sessions with her psychiatrist, with a second narrative following the events after her escape—her struggle to piece her shattered life back together and the ongoing police investigation into the identity of her captor. Still Missing is a shocking, visceral, brutal and beautifully crafted novel.
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It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him. This is my story. A letter from nowhere. Sixteen-year-old Gemma is kidnapped from Bangkok airport and taken to the Australian Outback. This wild and desolate landscape becomes almost a character in the book, so vividly is it described. Ty, her captor, is no stereotype. He is young, fit and completely gorgeous. This new life in the wilderness has been years in the planning. He loves only her, wants only her. Under the hot glare of the Australian sun, cut off from the world outside, can the force of his love make Gemma love him back? The story takes the form of a letter, written by Gemma to Ty, reflecting on those strange and disturbing months in the outback. Months when the lines between love and obsession, and love and dependency, blur until they don’t exist–almost.
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“My life was complete. Happy, content, everything neat and perfect. Then it all changed. I was sold.” Tess Snow has everything she ever wanted: one more semester before a career in property development, a loving boyfriend, and a future dazzling bright with possibility. For their two year anniversary, Brax surprises Tess with a romantic trip to Mexico. Sandy beaches, delicious cocktails, and soul-connecting sex set the mood for a wonderful holiday. With a full heart, and looking forward to a passion filled week, Tess is on top of the world. But lusty paradise is shattered. Kidnapped. Drugged. Stolen. Tess is forced into a world full of darkness and terror. Captive and alone with no savior, no lover, no faith, no future, Tess evolves from terrified girl to fierce fighter. But no matter her strength, it can’t save her from the horror of being sold. Can Brax find Tess before she’s broken and ruined, or will Tess’s new owner change her life forever? A New Adult Dark Contemporary Romance, not suitable for people sensitive to grief, slavery, and nonconsensual sex. A story about finding love in the strangest of places, a will of iron that grows from necessity, and forgiveness that may not be enough.
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Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees…and a collection of precious “butterflies”—young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens. When the garden is discovered, a survivor is brought in for questioning. FBI agents Victor Hanoverian and Brandon Eddison are tasked with piecing together one of the most stomach-churning cases of their careers. But the girl, known only as Maya, proves to be a puzzle herself. As her story twists and turns, slowly shedding light on life in the Butterfly Garden, Maya reveals old grudges, new saviors, and horrific tales of a man who’d go to any length to hold beauty captive. But the more she shares, the more the agents have to wonder what she’s still hiding…
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Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story—a nationwide bestseller, a critical success, and the first title chosen for Oprah’s Book Club. Both highly suspenseful and deeply moving, The Deep End of the Ocean imagines every mother’s worst nightmare—the disappearance of a child—as it explores a family’s struggle to endure, even against extraordinary odds. Filled with compassion, humor, and brilliant observations about the texture of real life, here is a story of rare power, one that will touch readers’ hearts and make them celebrate the emotions that make us all one.
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With each and every new novel, Dean Koontz raises the stakes–and the pulse rate–higher than any other author. Now, in what may be his most suspenseful and heartfelt novel ever, he brings us the story of an ordinary man whose extraordinary commitment to his wife will take him on a harrowing journey of adventure, sacrifice, and redemption to the mystery of love itself–and to a showdown with the darkness that would destroy it forever. What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill? We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was in the middle of planting impatiens in the yard of one of his clients when his cell phone rang. Now he’s standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare. Whoever is on the other end of the line is dead serious. He has Mitch’s wife and he’s named the price for her safe return. The caller doesn’t care that Mitch runs a small two-man landscaping operation and has no way of raising such a vast sum. He’s confident that Mitch will find a way. If he loves his wife enough. . . Mitch does love her enough. He loves her more than life itself. He’s got seventy-two hours to prove it. He has to find the two million by then. But he’ll pay a lot more. He’ll pay anything. From its tense opening to its shattering climax, The Husband is a thriller that will hold you in its relentless grip for every twist, every shock, every revelation…until it lets you go, unmistakably changed.
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When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on, when more bad things began to happen… But that woman’s husband died last week. And Jean doesn’t have to be her anymore. There’s a lot Jean hasn’t said over the years about the crime her husband was suspected of committing. She was too busy being the perfect wife, standing by her man while living with the accusing glares and the anonymous harassment. Now there’s no reason to stay quiet. There are people who want to hear her story. They want to know what it was like living with that man. She can tell them that there were secrets. There always are in a marriage. The truth—that’s all anyone wants. But the one lesson Jean has learned in the last few years is that she can make people believe anything…
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On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California. It was the last her family and friends saw of her for over eighteen years. On 26 August 2009, Dugard, her daughters, and Phillip Craig Garrido appeared in the office of her kidnapper’s parole officer in California. Their unusual behaviour sparked an investigation that led to the positive identification of Jaycee Lee Dugard, living in a tent behind Garrido’s home. During her time in captivity, at the age of fourteen and seventeen, she gave birth to two daughters, both fathered by Garrido. Dugard’s memoir is written by the 30-year-old herself and covers the period from the time of her abduction in 1991 up until the present. In her stark, utterly honest and unflinching narrative, Jaycee opens up about what she experienced, including how she feels now, a year after being found. Garrido and his wife Nancy have since pleaded guilty to their crimes.
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Once upon a time, I was a little girl who disappeared. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn’t know how lucky I was. When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends — her life. She learned to give up all power, to endure all pain. She waited for the nightmare to be over. Now Alice is fifteen and Ray still has her, but he speaks more and more of her death. He does not know it is what she longs for. She does not know he has something more terrifying than death in mind for her. This is Alice’s story. It is one you have never heard, and one you will never, ever forget.
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For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crime. On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken from her home in the middle of the night by religious fanatic, Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee. She was kept chained, dressed in disguise, repeatedly raped, and told she and her family would be killed if she tried to escape. After her rescue on March 12, 2003, she rejoined her family and worked to pick up the pieces of her life. Now for the first time, in her memoir, MY STORY, she tells of the constant fear she endured every hour, her courageous determination to maintain hope, and how she devised a plan to manipulate her captors and convinced them to return to Utah, where she was rescued minutes after arriving. Smart explains how her faith helped her stay sane in the midst of a nightmare and how she found the strength to confront her captors at their trial and see that justice was served. In the nine years after her rescue, Smart transformed from victim to advocate, traveling the country and working to educate, inspire and foster change. She has created a foundation to help prevent crimes against children and is a frequent public speaker. In 2012, she married Matthew Gilmour, whom she met doing mission work in Paris for her church, in a fairy tale wedding that made the cover of People magazine.
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To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world…. Told in the inventive, funny, and poignant voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience—and a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible. To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it’s where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it’s not enough … not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son’s bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work. Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another.
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Taken to a private island. I never thought this could happen to me. I never imagined one chance meeting on the eve of my eighteenth birthday could change my life so completely.Now I belong to him. To Julian. To a man who is as ruthless as he is beautiful – a man whose touch makes me burn. A man whose tenderness I find more devastating than his cruelty. My captor is an enigma. I don’t know who he is or why he took me. There is a darkness inside him – a darkness that scares me even as it draws me in.My name is Nora Leston, and this is my story. WARNING: This is NOT a traditional romance. It contains disturbing subject matter, including themes of questionable consent and Stockholm Syndrome, as well as graphic sexual content. This is a work of fiction intended for a mature, 18+ audience only. The author neither endorses nor condones this type of behavior.
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Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father, Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can’t recall. And then a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret that changes the world as she knows it.” In shock and confusion, Delia must sift through the truth – even when it jeopardizes her life and the lives of those she loves. What happens when you learn you are not who you thought you were? When the people you’ve loved and trusted suddenly change before your eyes? When getting your deepest wish means giving up what you’ve always taken for granted? Vanishing Acts explores how life – as we know it – might not turn out the way we imagined; how doing the right thing could mean doing the wrong thing; how the memory we thought had vanished could return as a threat.
| # | Books | Authors | Lists |
| 20 | 3,096 Days in Captivity: The True Story of My Abduction, Eight Years of Enslavement, and Escape | Natascha Kampusch | The Charley Project |
| 21 | A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1) | Romance | |
| 22 | A House in the Sky | Amanda Lindhout | Goodreads 2 |
| 23 | A Kingdom of Dreams (Westmoreland Saga #1) | Romance | |
| 24 | A Touch of Crimson | Audible | |
| 25 | Abducted | Charlene Lunnon and Lisa Hoodless | The Charley Project |
| 26 | Accidental SEAL | Audible | |
| 27 | Addicted | Audible | |
| 28 | Agent in Place | Mark Greaney | Barnes & Noble |
| 29 | All Our Families: New Policies for a New Century | Questia | |
| 30 | All the Missing Girls | Megan Miranda | Barnes & Noble |
| 31 | Along Came a Spider | James Patterson | Goodreads 2 |
| 32 | Anatomy of a Kidnapping: A Doctor’s Story | Steven L. Berk | The Charley Project |
| 33 | Anna and the Alien | Honey Phillips | Goodreads 1 |
| 34 | Beneath the Burn | Pam Godwin | Goodreads 1 |
| 35 | Blaze | Stephen King | Barnes & Noble |
| 36 | Blood Orange | Paperback Swap | |
| 37 | Blue Monday | Nicci French | Library Thing |
| 38 | Bone Gap | Laura Ruby | Goodreads 2 |
| 39 | Buried Memories: Katie Beers’ Story | Katie Beers | The Charley Project |
| 40 | Burn (Steel Brothers Saga… | Helen Hardt | Barnes & Noble |
| 41 | Caine’s Reckoning | Audible | |
| 42 | Captive in the Dark | C.J. Roberts | Goodreads 2 |
| 43 | Caressed by Ice | Audible | |
| 44 | CHANCE’S BABY: A Bad Boy Hitman Romance | Evelyn Glass | Goodreads 1 |
| 45 | Child Abduction, Parents’ Distress, and Social Support | Questia | |
| 46 | City of the Sun David Levien City of the Sun is a crime/suspense novel | David Levien | Ranker |
| 47 | Claimed by an Alien Warrior | Tiffany Roberts | Goodreads 1 |
| 48 | Comfort Food | Kitty Thomas | Goodreads 2 |
| 49 | Conflict of Laws | Questia | |
| 50 | Consequences | Aleatha Romig | Goodreads 2 |
| 51 | Craved by an Alien | Amanda Milo | Goodreads 1 |
| 52 | Crow’s Row | Julie Hockley | Goodreads 2 |
| 53 | Damnable Grace (Hades Hangmen #5) | Romance | |
| 54 | Data Missing on Missing Children: Despite Intensive Media Coverage, Authorities Insist That No Child-Abduction Epidemic Exists. Yet Statistics Prove Unreliable. So Just How Safe Are America’s Kids? (Nation: Child Abduction) | Questia | |
| 55 | Dead to You | Lisa McMann | Goodreads 2 |
| 56 | Deceptions | Dana Mansfield | Goodreads 1 |
| 57 | Deck the Halls Carol Higgins Clark, Mary Higgins Clark Deck The Halls is a 2003 thriller novel | Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark. | Ranker |
| 58 | Deliver | Pam Godwin | Goodreads 2 |
| 59 | Deliver Us From Evil: The True Story of Mexico’s Most Famous Kidnapping | Ernestina Sodi | The Charley Project |
| 60 | Did You Miss Me? | Audible | |
| 61 | Die Trying | Lee Child | Goodreads 2 |
| 62 | Dirty Angels | Karina Halle | Goodreads 2 |
| 63 | Do or Die | Audible | |
| 64 | Dragon Bound (Elder Races #1) | Romance | |
| 65 | Echoes at Dawn | Audible | |
| 66 | Ensnared (The Life of Anna #4) | Romance | |
| 67 | Escape from Paradise | Gwendolyn Field | Goodreads 2 |
| 68 | Eternal Rider | Larissa Ione | Goodreads 1 |
| 69 | Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle | Ingrid Betancourt | The Charley Project |
| 70 | Exhale | Joel Abernathy | Goodreads 1 |
| 71 | Fat Tuesday | Audible | |
| 72 | Fatal Burn | Audible | |
| 73 | Fierce Like a Firestorm | Lana Popović | Goodreads 1 |
| 74 | Find Her (Detective D. D.… | Lisa Gardner | Barnes & Noble |
| 75 | Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappingsby Michelle Knight | The Charley Project | |
| 76 | Flesh & Blood: A Novel of Crime John Harvey Flesh Blood: A Novel of Crime is a book | John Harvey. | Ranker |
| 77 | Follow the River | James Alexander Thom | Barnes & Noble |
| 78 | Freedomland Richard Price Freedomland is a mystery novel | Richard Price | Ranker |
| 79 | Frost Burned (Mercy Thompson #7) | Romance | |
| 80 | Get Off My Case | Lisa Oliver | Goodreads 1 |
| 81 | Girl, Stolen | April Henry | Goodreads 2 |
| 82 | Gone Girl Gillian Flynn Gone Girl is a thriller novel | Gillian Flynn | Ranker |
| 83 | Gone, Baby, Gone (Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, Bk 4) | Paperback Swap | |
| 84 | Good Morning, Killer: An Ana Grey Mystery April Smith Good Morning, Killer: An Ana Grey Mystery is a book | April Smith. | Ranker |
| 85 | Goodbye Sister Disco James Patrick Hunt Goodbye Sister Disco is a book | James Patrick Hunt. | Ranker |
| 86 | Guilty as Sin (Deer Lake, Bk 2) | Paperback Swap | |
| 87 | Hell Breaks Loose | Sophie Jordan | Goodreads 1 |
| 88 | Helpless | Barbara Gowdy | Library Thing |
| 89 | Hold Me (Twist Me #3) | Romance | |
| 90 | Home | Harlan Coben | Goodreads 1 |
| 91 | Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland | Amanda Berry | Goodreads 2 |
| 92 | Hopeless | Colleen Hoover | Goodreads 2 |
| 93 | I Choose to Live | Sabine Dardenne | The Charley Project |
| 94 | I’d Know You Anywhere | Laura Lippman | Goodreads 2 |
| 95 | If You Find Me | Emily Murdoch | Goodreads 2 |
| 96 | Immortal Rider | Larissa Ione | Goodreads 1 |
| 97 | In Bitter Chill | Sarah Ward | Book Riot |
| 98 | In the Cellar Jan Reemtsma In the Cellar is a book | Jan Philipp Reemtsma. | Ranker |
| 99 | In the Woods | Tana French | Library Thing |
| 100 | Into the Thinnest of Air | Simon R. Green | Goodreads 1 |
| 101 | Isherwood | Missy Welsh | Goodreads 1 |
| 102 | Island of Lost Girls | Jennifer McMahon | Library Thing |
| 103 | It Only Takes a Moment (Sunrise Suspense Society, Bk 2) | Paperback Swap | |
| 104 | Keep Me (Twist Me #2) | Romance | |
| 105 | Kept: A Victorian Mystery D. J. Taylor Kept: A Victorian Mystery is a book | D. J. Taylor. | Ranker |
| 106 | Kidnapped In Yemen: One Woman’s Amazing Escape from Terrorist Captivity | Mary Quin | The Charley Project |
| 107 | Kidnapped: A Diary of My 373 Days in Captivity | Leszli Kalli | The Charley Project |
| 108 | Killing Sarai | J.A. Redmerski | Goodreads 2 |
| 109 | Latakia | J.F. Smith | Goodreads 1 |
| 110 | Little | J.M. Dabney | Goodreads 1 |
| 111 | Livingston | J.M. Dabney | Goodreads 1 |
| 112 | Long Shadows | Kate Sherwood | Goodreads 1 |
| 113 | Looking Glass | Paperback Swap | |
| 114 | Lothaire (Immortals After Dark #12) | Romance | |
| 115 | Lover Awakened | Audible | |
| 116 | Maverick’s Mate | Lynn Hagen | Goodreads 1 |
| 117 | Meet Me in the Dark | J.A. Huss | Goodreads 1 |
| 118 | Memoir of a Milk Carton Kid | Tanya Nicole Kach | The Charley Project |
| 119 | Motorcycle Man | Kristen Ashley | Goodreads 2 |
| 120 | Murder in the Dark | Simon R. Green | Goodreads 1 |
| 121 | Mystic River | Dennis Lehane | Library Thing |
| 122 | News of a Kidnapping Gabriel García Márquez News of a Kidnapping is a non-fiction book | Gabriel García Márquez | Ranker |
| 123 | Nine Minutes | Beth Flynn | Goodreads 2 |
| 124 | No Second Chance | Harlan Coben | Barnes & Noble |
| 125 | NOS4A2 | Joe Hill | Goodreads 2 |
| 126 | Number Thirteen | Bella Jewel | Goodreads 1 |
| 127 | Oliver Twist (Barnes & Noble… | Charles Dickens | Barnes & Noble |
| 128 | One Kick | Chelsea Cain | Library Thing |
| 129 | Otherwise Engaged | Audible | |
| 130 | Outlander (Outlander #1) | Romance | |
| 131 | Perfect (Second Opportunities #2) | Romance | |
| 132 | Pretty Girl-13 | Liz Coley | Goodreads 2 |
| 133 | Pretty Stolen Dolls ( #) | Romance | |
| 134 | Price of Life | Nigel Brennan | The Charley Project |
| 135 | Prisoner | Annika Martin | Goodreads 2 |
| 136 | Protecting Bear | Alicia Nordwell | Goodreads 1 |
| 137 | Reaper’s Legacy | Joanna Wylde | Goodreads 2 |
| 138 | Reign | Jessica Gadziala | Goodreads 1 |
| 139 | Relevance and Fairness: Protecting the Rights of Domestic-Violence Victims and Left-Behind Fathers under the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction | Questia | |
| 140 | Roses Are Red (Alex Cross… | James Patterson | Barnes & Noble |
| 141 | Royal Dragon | Charlene Hartnady | Goodreads 1 |
| 142 | Ruthless King (Mount Trilogy #1) | Romance | |
| 143 | Salting Roses: A Novel | Lorelle Marinello | Library Thing |
| 144 | Say Goodbye | Lisa Gardner | Library Thing |
| 145 | Scarred: A Memoir | George Mohlo | The Charley Project |
| 146 | Second Debt (Indebted #3) | Romance | |
| 147 | Seduction of a Highland Lass | Audible | |
| 148 | Shattered: Reclaiming a Life Torn Apart by Violence | Debra Puglisi Sharp | The Charley Project |
| 149 | Shiver | Lisa Jackson | Goodreads 1 |
| 150 | Six Four | Hideo Yokoyama | Library Thing |
| 151 | Snowblind | Eli Easton | Goodreads 1 |
| 152 | Souls Unfractured (Hades Hangmen #3) | Romance | |
| 153 | Split Second (Sean King and… | David Baldacci | Barnes & Noble |
| 154 | Stolen Children | Peg Kehret | Goodreads 2 |
| 155 | Tampa’s Child Abduction Response Team | Questia | |
| 156 | The Apostle (Scot Harvath… | Brad Thor | Barnes & Noble |
| 157 | The Birthday Party: A Memoir of Survival | Stanley M. Alpert | The Charley Project |
| 158 | The Bloomsday Dead Adrian McKinty The Bloomsday Dead is a book | Adrian McKinty. | Ranker |
| 159 | The Child Finder | Rene Denfeld | Library Thing |
| 160 | The Couple Next Door | Shari Lapena | Goodreads 2 |
| 161 | The End of Everything | Megan Abbott | Library Thing |
| 162 | The Face on the Milk Carton | Caroline B. Cooney | Goodreads 2 |
| 163 | The Fan Club Irving Wallace The Fan Club is a novel | Irving Wallace | Ranker |
| 164 | The Gargoyle Gets His Girl | Audible | |
| 165 | The Gift (Witch and Wizard… | James Patterson | Barnes & Noble |
| 166 | The Girl in the Red Coat | Kate Hamer | Library Thing |
| 167 | The Golden Dynasty (Fantasyland #2) | Romance | |
| 168 | The Good Girl | Mary Kubica | Goodreads 2 |
| 169 | The Grave Maurice: A Richard Jury Mystery Martha Grimes The Grave Maurice: A Richard Jury Mystery is a book | Martha Grimes. | Ranker |
| 170 | The Hague Convention on International Child Abduction | Questia | |
| 171 | The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction: An Update after Abbott | Questia | |
| 172 | The Hard Way (Jack Reacher… | Lee Child | Barnes & Noble |
| 173 | The Hunger | Alma Katsu | Goodreads 1 |
| 174 | The Last Child | John Hart | Library Thing |
| 175 | The Long and Faraway Gone | Lou Berney | Barnes & Noble |
| 176 | The MacKinnon’s Bride | Audible | |
| 177 | The Missing | Shiloh Walker | Goodreads 1 |
| 178 | The Myths and Truths of Family Abduction | Questia | |
| 179 | The Neighbors | Hurri Cosmo | Goodreads 1 |
| 180 | The Paper Swan | Leylah Attar | Goodreads 2 |
| 181 | The Prada Plan 2: Leah’s Story | Ashley Antoinette | Barnes & Noble |
| 182 | The Psychology of Sexual Victimization: A Handbook | Questia | |
| 183 | The Pure in Heart | Susan Hill | Library Thing |
| 184 | The Pure in Heart (Simon Serrailler, Bk 2) | Paperback Swap | |
| 185 | The Reversal | Michael Connelly | Library Thing |
| 186 | The Risk of Darkness | Paperback Swap | |
| 187 | The Safest Lies | Megan Miranda | Goodreads 1 |
| 188 | The Shack | William P. Young | Library Thing |
| 189 | The Star Host | F.T. Lukens | Goodreads 1 |
| 190 | The Stolen Child Keith Donohue The Stolen Child is a book | Keith Donohue. | Ranker |
| 191 | The Yarian | Poppy Rhys | Goodreads 1 |
| 192 | The Year of Fog | Michelle Richmond | Library Thing |
| 193 | This is War, Baby | K. Webster | Goodreads 2 |
| 194 | To Command and Collar (Masters of the Shadowlands #6) | Romance | |
| 195 | Torn from You | Nashoda Rose | Goodreads 2 |
| 196 | Touch & Go | Lisa Gardner | Goodreads 2 |
| 197 | True (New Species #11) | Romance | |
| 198 | Tyrant (King #2) | Romance | |
| 199 | Uncaged | L a Boles | Goodreads 1 |
| 200 | Undaunted | Crystal Daniels | Goodreads 1 |
| 201 | Vanished | Karen Robards | Goodreads 1 |
| 202 | Vanishing Youngsters: No Easy Answers | Questia | |
| 203 | Wanderlust | Skye Warren | Goodreads 2 |
| 204 | Warrior’s Cross | Madeleine Urban | Goodreads 1 |
| 205 | What Doesn’t Kill Her | Carla Norton | Book Riot |
| 206 | What She Knew | Gilly MacMillan | Library Thing |
| 207 | Whatever Happened to Janie? | Caroline B. Cooney | Goodreads 2 |
| 208 | When You Dare | Audible | |
| 209 | Willing Captive | Belle Aurora | Goodreads 2 |
| 210 | Witch and Wizard (Witch and… | James Patterson | Barnes & Noble |
| 211 | With Love | J.L. Langley | Goodreads 1 |
| 212 | Wither | Lauren DeStefano | Goodreads 2 |
| 213 | Without a Trace | Audible | |
| 214 | You Loved Me At My Darkest | Evie Harper | Goodreads 1 |
| Source | Article |
| Audible | Listen to Kidnapping Romance Audiobooks | Audible.com |
| Barnes & Noble | Abduction & Kidnapping – Fiction, Crimes – Fiction, Books | Barnes … |
| Bookriot | 3 Crime Novels about Kidnapping – Book Riot |
| Goodreads 1 | Popular Abduction Kidnapping Books – Goodreads |
| Goodreads 2 | Popular Kidnapping Books – Goodreads |
| Library Thing | child abduction | books tagged child abduction | LibraryThing |
| Paperback Swap | List of 21 Child Abduction Books – Paperback Swap |
| Questia | List of books and articles about Child Abduction | Online Research … |
| Ranker | Kidnapping Books: List of Books About Kidnapping – Ranker |
| Romance | The ultimate list of the best abduction romance novels (1367 books … |
| The Charley Project | A list of kidnapping memoirs – The Charley Project Blog |
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