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Destroyer Angel

Destroyer Angel Nevada Barr · 2014 · 266p · ≈ 8h · Moderate After a summer fighting wildfire, park ranger Anna Pigeon is enjoying a weekend away camping in Minnesota's National Park with her girlfriends. Leah Hendricks is the genius behind a high-end sports gear manufacturer and Heath Jarrod has volunteered to test out some of the equipment. But when they encounter a band of violent kidnappers little do they realise that their ultimate challenge will be… Shares Kidnapping, Missing persons

Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886 · ★ 3.8 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Challenging KIDNAPPED is an adventure story that has become the model for any thriller of escape and suspense. Set in 1751, the flight of David Balfour and Alan Breck across the Highlands of Scotland is based on real events. Though he wrote the book to make money, while living as an invalid in Bournemouth. Stevenson was proud of it; he inscribed a presentation copy with the couplet. Here is the one sound… Shares Scotland, Kidnapping, British and irish fiction, Adventure

The raiders, being some passages in the life of John Faa, Lord and Earl of Little Egypt Samuel Rutherford Crockett · 1893 · ★ 4.1 · 391p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Crockett’s ‘breakthrough’ and most famous novel, first published in 1894, this is part of a loose trilogy of smugglers and gypsies stories featuring the Herons, the Maxwells and the Faas. Stevensonesque in style, it is unique in its descriptions of Galloway’s coast and hills and still thrills a modern audience. *‘'The Raiders ' vibrates with sufficient dramatic action for a dozen ordinary… Shares Scotland, Adventure

David Balfour Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Challenging From the book:It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Company’s office, must expect his late re-appearance to be greeted with hoots, if not with missiles. Yet, when I remember the days of our explo-rations, I am not without hope. There should be left in our native city some… Shares Scotland, Kidnapping, British and irish fiction, Adventure

Riding the Rap

Riding the Rap Elmore Leonard · 1995 · ★ 3.9 · 326p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Debt-ridden Palm Beach playboy Warren "Chip" Ganz takes a rich man hostage. The trouble is he chooses bookmaker Harry Arno -- an expert scammer with a U.S. Marshal on his tail. When everybody's got a gun, someone's gonna get hurt. Shares Kidnapping in fiction, Kidnapping, Missing persons

Blue Hand Edgar Wallace · 1923 · ★ 4.1 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Jim Steele, a clerk for a prominent London attorney, has the distasteful task of assisting a notorious client, Digby Groat, who stands to inherit the Jonathan Danton fortune. Danton’s infant daughter and closest heir, Dorothy, was thought to have died in a boating accident twenty years ago. Adding to the mystery, Dorothy’s mother, Lady Mary Danton, also disappeared around the same time. Jim… Shares Adventure

The House Without a Key Earl Derr Biggers · 2015 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Published in 1925, The House Without a Key introduces the kindly detective Charlie Chan, conceived by Earl Derr Biggers as a counter to the “Yellow Peril” stereotypes common in the era’s society. John Quincy Winterslip, having been sent by his family to convince his aunt to return to Boston, arrives in Honolulu to find that a rich family member with a shady past has been murdered. Detective… Shares Adventure

The Emperor's candlesticks Baroness Emmuska Orczy · 1908 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Moderate The Emperor's Candlesticks (1899) is a historical novel by Baroness Orczy and was her first book as an author. Shares Adventure

Saint Ted Dekker · 2006 · ★ 3.2 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate I know a few things about myself. I know that my name is Carl. My wife is Kelly. I love her more than my own life. If she told me to kill you, I would. I’m a captive, deep inside Hungary – no one knows I’m here. I can put a bullet into a ten-inch target at 3,000 yards. They tell me that I’m the best sniper in the world. Sometimes I sit in my dark hole for days without moving so that they don’t… Shares Kidnapping, Missing persons

Chanda's wars Allan Stratton · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Moderate She promised her mama she'd keep them safe.It's been six months since Mama died, and Chanda is struggling to raise her little brother and sister. Determined to end a family feud, she takes them to her relatives' remote rural village.But across the nearby border, a brutal civil war is spreading. Rebels led by the ruthless General Mandiki attack at night, stealing children. All that separates… Shares Kidnapping in fiction, Kidnapping

Pelham Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · 1828 · 375p · ≈ 12h · Challenging This is the tale of Henry Pelham. He falls in love with his best friend’s sister, and then learns that his friend is accused of murder. He must find the real killer in order to marry his love. The book really illustrates the manners, habits and lifestyles of the rich and famous in the first half of the 19th century. This is a very entertaining read!Please Note: This book is easy to read in true… Shares British and irish fiction, Adventure

Sail Of Stone Åke Edwardson · 2012 Shares Scotland, Missing persons with this book.

My Lady's Money Wilkie Collins · 1870 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Old Lady Lydiard sat meditating by the fireside, with three letters lying open on her lap. Shares British and irish fiction

The Queen of Hearts Wilkie Collins · 1859 · ★ 4.0 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Challenging The elderly Brothers Owen, Morgan and Griffith live a quiet, retired life in the countryside, which is turned upside-down by Griffith's ward, the young Jessie Yelverton. Originally, her visit to them was to last only six weeks, but for a very certain reason, the gentlemen must find a way to prolong her visit and get Jessie to stay for ten more days. To make her stay, they promise to tell her an… Shares British and irish fiction

Daisychain G. J. Moffat · 2009 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Over the course of three days, the paths of three people's lives will intersect and change forever ... Logan Finch is sitting pretty, with his penthouse apartment and a shot at making partner in Glasgow's largest law firm. Yet he still pines for the woman he thought was 'the one' and who left him with no word of explanation twelve years ago. Alex Cahill is a client and friend of Logan. The… Shares Scotland, Missing persons

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner (With A Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts, And Other Evidence, By The Editor) James Hogg · 1824 · ★ 3.6 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Challenging "This now-famous book was given a hostile reception when it first appeared in 1824. It was not reprinted until the late 1830s, when a heavily bowdlerised version was included in a posthumous edition of Hogg's collected Tales and Sketches published by Blackie & Son of Glasgow. Thereafter Confessions of a Justified Sinner attracted little interest until the 1890s, when the unbowdlerised text was… Shares Scotland in fiction, Scotland

Step on a Crack James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge · 1658 · ★ 4.1 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Challenging With the unexpected death of a beloved former first lady, the nation falls into mourning as the world's most powerful people gather in New York for her funeral. Then the inconceivable occurs. Billionaires, politicians, and superstars of every kind are suddenly trapped by one man's brilliant and ruthless scenario. Pulled into the fray, Detective Michael Bennett-father of ten-faces the most… Shares Kidnapping in fiction, Kidnapping, Adventure

Northern Lights Philip Pullman · 1995 · ★ 4.0 · 404p · ≈ 13h · Moderate In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of… Shares Kidnapping, Missing persons, Adventure