Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Abducted | 2019 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 2 | The Abducted: Odessa | 2019 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 3 | Deadly Webs | 2019 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 4 | Missing Person | 2019 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 5 | The Silent Ones | 2019 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 6 | Stolen | 2019 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 7 | Little Girl Lost | 2019 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 8 | The Sleeping Girls | 2019 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 9 | Don’t Tell | 2019 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 10 | The Buried Truth | 2019 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 11 | Sleeping Beauties | 2019 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 12 | Forgotten Secrets | 2019 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 13 | The Missing | 2019 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 14 | Secrets in the Woods | 2019 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 15 | Secret Lives | 2019 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 16 | The Vanishing of the Georgia Rose | 2020 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 17 | Death Notes | 2020 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 18 | Kidnapped | 2020 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 19 | The Professor | 2020 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 20 | The Chosen | 2020 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 21 | The Secret Letter | 2020 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 22 | Secret Memories | 2020 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 23 | Forgotten Lives | 2020 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 24 | The Painting Murders | 2020 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 25 | The Girl in the Tide | 2020 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 26 | The Willow Springs Kidnappings | 2020 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 27 | His Sleeping Beauties | 2021 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 28 | Small Town Secrets | 2021 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 29 | Pieces of Her | 2021 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 30 | Forgotten Whispers | 2021 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 31 | In an Instant | 2021 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 32 | The Bloodline | 2021 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 33 | The Cabin | 2021 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 34 | Never Came Home | 2021 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 35 | The Frozen Child | 2022 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 36 | The Disappearance of Dakota Logan | 2022 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 37 | A Mother’s Lie | 2022 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 38 | Under the Moonlight | 2022 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 39 | What My Daughter Did | 2022 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 40 | The Family Secret | 2022 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 41 | The Paradise River Abductions | 2022 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 42 | The Westwood Park Abductions | 2022 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 43 | The Twin Lakes Abduction | 2022 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 44 | Familiar Stranger | 2022 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 45 | The Havenbrook Abductions | 2022 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 46 | The Lookout Point Abduction | 2022 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 47 | Lost Town | 2023 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 48 | The Abduction | 2023 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 49 | Stolen in a Small Town | 2023 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 50 | The Avondale Abduction | 2023 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 51 | The Colwood Kidnappings | 2023 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 52 | The Abduction of Art Adams | 2023 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 53 | Captive Hearts | 2023 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 54 | Whispers in the Dark | 2023 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 55 | The Abduction at Keller Hill | 2023 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 56 | The Nevermore Abduction | 2023 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 57 | When Shadows Speak | 2023 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 58 | Behind Closed Doors | 2023 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 59 | A Cold Secret | 2023 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 60 | A Voice in the Dark | 2023 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 61 | Gone without a Trace | 2023 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 62 | Hidden in Lies | 2023 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 63 | The Ridgewood Abductions | 2023 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 64 | The Silent Children | 2024 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 65 | Captured Innocence | 2024 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 66 | Vanishing Rose | 2024 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 67 | Truth and Lies | 2024 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 68 | The Secret Twins | 2024 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 69 | Her Silent Cry | 2024 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 70 | The Kidnapping of Bella Rosemont | 2024 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 71 | The Vanishing Hour | 2024 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 72 | The Harvest Moon Abductions | 2024 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 73 | Gone at Dawn | 2024 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 74 | Hollow Oak Abduction | 2024 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 75 | Orphan Lake | 2024 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 76 | The Kidnapping of Lacy Peters | 2024 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 77 | The Cherry Street Abduction | 2024 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 78 | The Secrets We Keep | 2024 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 79 | Lost and Found | 2024 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 80 | Small Town Lights | 2024 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 81 | Below Zero | 2024 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 82 | Glass Houses | 2024 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 83 | Frozen Grave | 2025 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 84 | The Missing Hours | 2025 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 85 | The Corrupted | 2025 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
| 86 | The Marked Girl | 2025 | Robert J. Walker | Buy |
A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery is an 86-book thriller series by Robert J. Walker, beginning with The Abducted in 2019 and running through The Marked Girl in 2025. The series covers kidnapping, child abduction, missing persons, and the investigations that follow, set across a variety of American small towns, suburbs, and rural communities.
Each book focuses on a specific case, often titled by the location or nature of the abduction (The Willow Springs Kidnappings, The Westwood Park Abductions, The Cherry Street Abduction). This structure gives the series both an episodic quality for casual readers and a cumulative weight for readers who follow the investigators across many cases.
The series has expanded steadily since 2019, with Walker adding multiple entries per year. At 86 books, it is one of the most substantial kidnapping mystery series in self-published thriller fiction. Readers who enjoy procedural crime fiction with emotionally high-stakes subject matter will find A Riveting Kidnapping Mystery consistent in tone and pace across its full run.