"Captive"ating Fiction

Updated April 19, 2023
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Misery : a novel
King, Stephen
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times bestselling tale of terror from master storyteller Stephen King about a famous novelist held hostage in a remote location by his "number one fan". Bestselling novelist Paul Sheldon thinks he's finally free of Misery Chastain. In a controversial career...
The last secret you'll ever keep
Stolarz, Laurie Faria
Paper Book
Bestselling author Laurie Faria Stolarz returns with The Last Secret You'll Ever Keep, a thrilling novel of an eighteen-year-old girl's search for answers and what she finds instead. Four days... Trapped in a well, surrounded by dirt, scratching at the...
The cellar
Preston, Natasha.
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times bestseller! A gripping, ripped-from-the-headlines, twisty psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling thriller author Natasha Preston! Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her--and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet. His...
The mirror man
Kepler, Lars
Paper Book
#1 INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER * Detective Joona Linna is on the trail of a kidnapper who targets teenage girls and makes their worst nightmares a reality.   "Dark, disturbing, and chillingly relentless. Picture Hannibal Lecter sitting down to channel Stieg Larsson...
Asadora! Volume 1
Urasawa, Naoki
Paper Book
A deadly typhoon, a mysterious creature and a girl who won't quit. In 2020, a large creature rampages through Tokyo, destroying everything in its path. In 1959, Asa Asada, a spunky young girl from a huge family in Nagoya, is kidnapped for ransom--and not a soul...
The power couple
Berenson, Alex
Paper Book
From #1 New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award winner Alex Berenson comes a supercharged thriller about marriage and the dangerous secrets spouses keep. Rebecca and Brian Unsworth appear to have it all. A nice house in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Two well...
Living dead girl
Scott, Elizabeth
Paper Book
Once upon a time, I was a little girl who disappeared. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was. When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends -- her life. She learned to give up all...
Still missing
Stevens, Chevy.
Paper Book
On the day she was abducted, Annie O'Sullivan, a thirty-two year old realtor, had three goals--sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever- patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van...
Stolen
Christopher, Lucy.
Paper Book
Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award * "An emotionally raw thriller...a haunting account of captivity and the power of relationships." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review The captivating, disturbing, and heartbreakingly beautiful thriller from award-winning and...
The bunker diary
Brooks, Kevin
Paper Book
I can't believe I fell for it. It was still dark when I woke up this morning. As soon as my eyes opened I knew where I was. A low-ceilinged rectangular building made entirely of whitewashed concrete. There are six little rooms along the main corridor. There are no...
Hush : an Irish princess' tale
Napoli, Donna Jo
Paper Book
Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish princess, is kidnapped by Russian slave traders and not only learns how to survive but to challenge some of the brutality of her captors, who are fascinated by her apparent muteness and the possibility that she is
Above
Morley, Isla.
Paper Book
In the bestselling vein of Room and The Lovely Bones, a stunning and harrowing novel about a Kansas teenager who is abducted and locked away in an abandoned missile silo by a survivalist who believes he is saving her from the impending destruction of the world. I am a...
Mother may I : a novel
Jackson, Joshilyn
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A finely paced, shrewdly observed, multi-tiered story . . . A thinking (and feeling) reader's thriller." -Wall Street Journal  "Chilling, thought-provoking, and hauntingly written, Mother May I kept me on the edge of my seat with its breathless race against...
The night she disappeared
Jewell, Lisa
Paper Book
"I love all Lisa's books, but The Night She Disappeared is her best thriller yet." --Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling author of Win From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone and The Family Upstairs comes another...
The natural way of things
Wood, Charlotte
Paper Book
Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the middle of a desert in a story of two friends, sisterly love and courage - a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and...
Bride of the sea : a novel
Quotah, Eman
Paper Book
During a snowy Cleveland February, newlywed university students Muneer and Saeedah are expecting their first child, and he is harboring a secret: the word divorce is whispering in his ear. Soon, their marriage will end, and Muneer will return to Saudi Arabia, while Saeedah remains in...
One Kick
Cain, Chelsea.
Paper Book
Meet Kick Lannigan. She's twenty-one. She can pick any lock. She knows five ways to kill you with a jacket. Get ready to fall in love. From the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell thrillers: The first...
When the stars go dark : a novel
McLain, Paula
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK * "A total departure for the author of The Paris Wife, McLain's emotionally intense and exceptionally well-written thriller entwines its fictional crime with real cases."--People (Book of the...
Bel canto : a novel
Patchett, Ann.
Paper Book
A novel that is as lyrical and profound as it is unforgettable, Bel Canto engenders in the reader the very passion for art and the language of music that its characters discover. A virtuoso performance by an important writer.
Sleeping bear : a thriller
Sullivan, Connor
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE BARRY AWARD FOR BEST FIRST MYSTERY/CRIME NOVEL "Sleeping Bear is...one of those rare novels that keeps getting better and better and better. Remember the author's name--Connor Sullivan." --James Patterson A former Army veteran seeking...
The forest of vanishing stars
Harmel, Kristin
Paper Book
Parade "Best Books of Summer" pick * Real Simple summer reading pick * SheReads "Best WWII Fiction of Summer 2021" pick The New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism" (P...
Room
Donoghue, Emma
Paper Book
Now a major Oscar-winning film starring Brie Larson Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don't have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners. Room...

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