"Captive"ating Fiction

Updated April 19, 2023
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Misery
King, Stephen
Paper Book
After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive
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
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 perfect flowers. His family. But flowers...
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...
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...
Still missing
Stevens, Chevy.
Audiobook
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 as she's...
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...
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 girl who was supposed to die
Henry, April.
Ebook
"Take her out back and finish her off." She doesn't know who she is. She doesn't know where she is, or why. All she knows when she comes to in a ransacked cabin is that there are two men arguing over whether or not to kill her. And that she must run. ...
The night she disappeared : a novel
Jewell, Lisa
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK "Utterly gripping with richly drawn, hugely compelling characters, this is a first-class thriller with heart." --Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author ...
The natural way of things
Wood, Charlotte
Paper Book
"A Handmaid's Tale for the 21st century" (Prism Magazine), Wood's dystopian tale about a group of young women held prisoner in the Australian desert is a prescient feminist fable for our times. As the Guardian writes, "contemporary feminism may have found its masterpiece of horror."
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
Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe. New York Times Bestseller Ann Patchett's award winning, bestselling novel that balances themes of love and crisis as disparate characters learn that music is their only common language--now a major motion picture...
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 : a novel
Donoghue, Emma
Paper Book
The award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is "utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel" (San Francisco Chronicle).   Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her...

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