A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery (James Hunt) Books in Order
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A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery (James Hunt) books in publication order
16 books
Deadly Webs
by James Hunt
2019
A child-abduction case opens into a much wider trap of lies, fear, and people pulling strings from the shadows. The more the investigators uncover, the harder it becomes to tell who is victim and who is predator.
Missing Person
by James Hunt
2019
A disappearance pulls investigators into a case where every answer leads to another lie. The search is urgent, and the people closest to the victim may be the hardest ones to trust.
Stolen
by James Hunt
2019
Politician Lena Hayes is already in the fight of her career when her daughter is kidnapped during a crucial vote. To save her child, she has to face enemies willing to use power, money, and murder.
The Buried Truth
by James Hunt
2019
The abduction of a four-year-old girl may be tied to a case from thirty years earlier. Her mother, Jessica Donovan, will do anything to bring her home, even if it means digging up her own past.
The Silent Ones
by James Hunt
2019
A fresh disappearance shakes loose old secrets in a community built on silence. The people saying the least may be the ones holding the most dangerous truth.
The Sleeping Girls
by James Hunt
2019
After Seattle police fail to stop a killer targeting runaway girls, undercover VICE officer Susan Quinton joins the hunt. She is battling her own demons while racing to save the next victim.
Death Notes
by James Hunt
2020
The body count in Baltimore is rising, and homicide detective Adila Cooper is running out of time. To stop the killer, she has to keep working through a case that is pushing her past every limit.
Forgotten Lives
by James Hunt
2020
Children are dying in the small town of Maples, Kansas, and no one can explain why. When Jessica Donovan is dragged back to the place she escaped, the case becomes personal all over again.
The Disappearance of Dakota Logan
by James Hunt
2022
FBI agent Kira Lockhart is called in when Dakota Logan disappears. The deeper she digs, the more she finds a case built on secrets, lies, and a town that knows more than it wants to admit.
Glass Houses
by James Hunt
2024
When everyone has something fragile to protect, one hard question can shatter everything. This is the kind of title Hunt uses when secrets are already under pressure.
The Harvest Moon Abductions
by James Hunt
2024
Ben Weaver relocates to a small desert town to escape his past, then a girl vanishes on the morning of the Harvest Moon Festival. An old local legend makes the search even darker.
The Secrets We Keep
by James Hunt
2024
A disappearance starts peeling back the private bargains and old lies holding a community together. The more people protect their secrets, the more dangerous the case becomes.
Truth and Lies
by James Hunt
2024
A case built on contradiction forces everyone involved to choose what they are willing to believe. In Hunt's thrillers, truth rarely arrives without taking something with it.
The Corrupted
by James Hunt
2025
A state legislator is found dead, his scandals are already public, and his daughter is missing. Sheriff Sean Callahan has a whole town of suspects and almost no clean ground to stand on.
The Marked Girl
by James Hunt
2025
A girl found adrift off Baja California has been marked for death by a violent gang. Ex-pat Chase Grant cannot walk away, even though helping her drags his own past back into the open.
The Runaways
by James Hunt
2026
Missing kids are hard enough to find when they want to be found. Hunt turns that tension into a chase built on fear, freedom, and the danger waiting beyond the first escape.
A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery (James Hunt) books in chronological order

Deadly Webs
by James Hunt
2019A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery, Book 1
Missing Person
by James Hunt
2019A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery, Book 2
The Silent Ones
by James Hunt
2019A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery, Book 3
Stolen
by James Hunt
2019A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery, Book 4
The Sleeping Girls
by James Hunt
2019A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery, Book 5
The Buried Truth
by James Hunt
2019A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery, Book 6
Death Notes
by James Hunt
2020A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery, Book 7
Forgotten Lives
by James Hunt
2020A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery, Book 8
The Disappearance of Dakota Logan
by James Hunt
2022Lockhart Missing Person Mystery, Book 1
Truth and Lies
by James Hunt
2024A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery, Book 10
The Harvest Moon Abductions
by James Hunt
2024A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery, Book 11
The Secrets We Keep
by James Hunt
2024A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery, Book 12
Glass Houses
by James Hunt
2024A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery, Book 13
The Corrupted
by James Hunt
2025A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery, Book 14
The Marked Girl
by James Hunt
2025A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery, Book 15
The Runaways
by James Hunt
2026A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery, Book 16
Series background & context
This is the big umbrella for James Hunt's missing-child and abduction thrillers, and it covers a lot of ground. Some books are standalones. Some branch into smaller continuing runs. What links them is the same core pressure: someone is gone, time is running short, and the truth is tangled up with whatever a family, a town, or an institution would rather keep hidden.
Hunt likes personal stakes more than puzzle-box cleverness. His leads are often detectives, agents, or parents who are already carrying some damage before the case begins. In the North and Martin books, Jim North and Kerry Martin bring their own histories into every investigation. In the Lockhart books, FBI agent Kira Lockhart is especially effective at finding missing people because loss never stopped being personal for her. In Children of the Lake, newly paired detectives Jo Wiles and Mark Allen walk into a small-town case that quickly becomes bigger than one missing child.
He also moves the frame around a lot.
Some stories lean urban and procedural, like Death Notes or The Sleeping Girls. Others go small-town and claustrophobic, where local legends, family reputations, and old loyalties matter as much as physical evidence. Books like The Harvest Moon Abductions, The Island of Missing Children, and The Marked Girl show how much Hunt enjoys settings that can turn hostile fast, islands, festival towns, remote communities, border spaces.
The tone is dark but readable. Hunt is not writing cozy mysteries here. These books tend to involve danger to children, emotional fallout, and protagonists who have to keep working while carrying guilt, grief, or anger. Even so, the pacing is usually brisk, and the stories stay focused on the human need to get somebody home.
If you want polished, high-comfort detective fiction, this may run a little rougher than that. If you want fast suspense built around disappearances, buried secrets, and people forced to make hard choices under pressure, this is the James Hunt lane most readers end up following for a while.
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