Mary Higgins Clark

Returning from an evening out, Simon and Julie Malherbe find the babysitter unconscious on the floor and their two six-month-old twins gone. A ransom demand soon arrives: 7 million euros if they want to see the girls again. While the father's company raises the cash the kidnappers organize their operation. They have two men to collect the money and a woman to take care of the babies. The three take orders from a mysterious boss called the Albatros. Who is hiding behind that pseudonym? Will their plan work? Will the girls' mother be able to handle the separation? The painful wait sows troubles within the family. Is the uncle, sought by the police, involved? What does the father really know? A fast-paced thriller in which the urgency is all the more poignant, as one of the twins is gravely ill.

A well-to-do family's only son, Mathieu Delmas, has been missing for ten years. Each year, he calls his mother, Olivia, on her birthday, promising to return one day. On her most recent birthday, his mother believes she sees him right outside during one such call, and chases him down the street, only to collapse with a heart attack. Her daughter, Caroline, is immediately summoned to return home to tend to her mother. Caroline flies home and immediately visits her mother in the hospital where her mother implores her to find Mathieu ASAP, as she has only 6-12 months to live. Caroline sets to work, enlisting the help of the local police department's soon-to retire Commandant Brodsky -- who initially refuses to assist. Undeterred, Caroline begins digging up old photos, and interviewing Mathieu's ex-landlord, roommates, and girlfriends. Not until Brodsky's much younger and more empathetic assistant, Clara, guilts him into investigating the 10-year missing Mathieu, and the 1-day missing Lisa, does Brodsky jump into the mystery with both feet. Meanwhile, the recuperating Olivia is being courted by her late husband's financial advisor, Stanislaus. Twists and turns, romance and mystery ensue.

A man leaves jail after spending 15 years behind bars for murdering his girlfriend, a crime he insists he did not commit.

Still recovering from a breakdown caused by the death of her son two years earlier, Menly Nichols (Kelly McGillis) convalesces in the old mansion where her husband Adam (Cotter Smith) grew up. The emotionally fragile Menly is having difficulty enough adjusting to her somewhat dank surrounding when she begins to be haunted by an eerie, faraway voice. Could the sounds be merely a manifestation of her trauma and guilt feelings--or are they caused by the ghost of her son, desperately trying to contact her? Whatever the case, trouble clearly lies ahead for both Menly and her baby daughter Hannah--and that trouble may or may not be linked with a murder case for which Adam has been hired as attorney for the defense.

A young woman investigates her father's murder.

In a riveting new thriller from America’s Queen of Suspense, a young woman is ensnared into returning to a place she had wanted to leave behind forever — her childhood home. There, at the age of ten, Liza Barton had shot her mother, trying desperately to protect her from her estranged step-father, Ted Cartwright. Despite his claim that the shooting was a deliberate act, the Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident. Many people, however, agreed with Cartwright, and the tabloids compared her to the infamous murderess Lizzie Borden, pointing even to the similarity of their names.