Books like The kidnapping of Anna by Ruth Hooker

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations–a search for the truth that threatens to consume him.

A debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives. Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good? Compulsively readable, The Girl on the Train is an emotionally immersive, Hitchcockian thriller and an electrifying debut. [paulahawkinsbooks.com][1] [1]: http://paulahawkinsbooks.com/the-girl-on-the-train-by-paula-hawkins/

Billy Squeakspeare wakes to find large holes dug in his yard. The legend says that Morgan Blackwhisker buried a treasure as a gift for lady Squeakspeare .It's upto billy and creepella to to find out if ht ghost of Morgan Blackwhisker has dug the hole or someone else .

Rachel is still reeling from the news that the Earth is secretly under attack by parasitic aliens. And that she and her friends are the planet's only defense.

A mysterious trip to the desolate Northern Isles soon turns into a terrifying adventure when Bill is kidnapped! Marooned far from the mainland on a deserted coast, Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, Jack and Kiki the parrot find themselves playing a dangerous game with an unknown enemy. Will they escape with Bill and their lives?

When Karen closes her eyes, the visions come. Through time and space, she sees a place where stolen children sleep. And if Karen denies a young policeman's request for help, the children may never go home again. Lois Duncan presents a ticking clock mystery with thrills at every turn.

When their mother disappears, two brothers go to stay with a great uncle in a mobile home park next to an abandoned amusement park and begin a search which puts them in danger.

Ruth's sisters' marriages are planned for the following spring. When she overhears a conversation about her own future between her sister, Agatha, and her sickly father, she is devastated. They want her to accept a marriage to local fisherman, Jacob Whittle. This she will not do, not even for her beloved family.

This series based on the books written by Gabrielle Lord. It follows the adventures of Callum Ormond, a 15-year-old who is forced to become a fugitive as he searches for the truth behind the death of a family member. The book series is in 12 installments, telling the story from January to December. The one hour television series will screen in 12 parts throughout the year, one episode each month.

In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, twelve-year-old Clara finds a baby left on the doorstep of her family's boarding house, and sets out to unravel the surrounding mysteries.

When Frank and Joe's friend Phil, who works for a manufacturer of highly classified, high-tech military equipment, disappears, they are on the trail of what leads to be not only kidnapping but a massive threat to global security.

When their little sister doesn't come home from school, fifteen-year-old Maggie and her brother must face up to some deep, dark secrets about their natural mother, whom they must consider as a kidnapping suspect.

When, after a bizarre series of events, her best friend is accused of murdering her own baby brother and two other babies, Lauren, convinced of her friend's innocence, joins her in trying to solve the mystery and find evidence to clear her name.

While living in Nauvoo, Illinois, in the mid-nineteenth century and enjoying the friendship of the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, Anna struggles to make her family see the importance of her gift for drawing.

Tris and Winola find the underrunners, a vast network of tunnels, the ideal place to escape their unhappy lives and act out their fantasies, but the tunnels become a dangerous place when invaded by an unseen stranger.

When Liverwurst the baby rhinosterwurst disappears, Wackatoo Indians, survivors of the 49th Cavalry, and children from the Koala Scouts join the circus company in rescuing him from a burger tycoon interested in creating Rhino-burgers.

An avid Sherlock Holmes fan, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill is kidnapped while investigating mysterious happenings in her home town.

Trent Malloy Had A Secret That Kept Him Drifting From Place To Place Until the night he found himself caught in a blinding snowstorm, and wound up half-frozen to death at Anna Caldwell's ranch. The gentle widow and her children had taken him in and nursed him back to health. But they'd done more than that. He'd begun to dream again about things he'd given up long ago. Things like love, home and family. And though he knew the day would come when he would have to leave, he kept hoping for the miracle that would erase his past, and make him the kind of man that Anna deserved.

[Silver Blaze](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518358W/Silver_Blaze) [Adventure of the Speckled Band](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262561W/Adventure_of_the_Speckled_Band) [Sign of Four](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262585W) [Scandal in Bohemia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930611W/A_Scandal_in_Bohemia) [Adventure of the Naval Treaty](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14930289W/The_Naval_Treaty) [Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518317W/Adventure_of_the_Blue_Carbuncle) Adventure of the Greek Interpreter [Red-Headed League](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262476W/The_Red-Headed_League) [Adventure of the Empty House](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1518119W/The_Adventure_of_the_Empty_House) [Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18191816W/Adventure_of_the_Missing_Three_Quarter) His Last Bow

In Las Vegas to take part in the National Computer Chess Championship, Frank and Joe soon find themselves the prime suspects in the kidnapping of a ruthless businessman's daughter, and the two must free the girl to clear their names.

**Two abducted girls—one who returns, one who doesn't.** The night they go missing, high school seniors Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are at a beach party in their small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. Police launch a massive search, but hope is almost lost--until Megan escapes from a bunker deep in the woods...A year later, the bestselling account of her ordeal has made Megan a celebrity. It's a triumphant story, except for one inconvenient detail: Nicole is still missing. Nicole's older sister, Livia, a fellow in forensic pathology, expects that one day soon Nicole's body will be found and her sister's fate determined. Instead, the first clue comes from another body--that of a young man connected to Nicole's past. Livia reaches out to Megan to learn more about that fateful night. Other girls have disappeared, and she's increasingly sure the cases are connected. Megan knows more than she revealed in her book. Flashes of memory are pointing to something more monstrous than she described. And the deeper she and Livia dig, the more they realize that sometimes true terror lies in finding exactly what you've been looking for...