Naturally as soon a si saw this one, it went straight to the top of ym to read list and I'm so glad it did. I flew through it in a day. Its not a deep book but it is an amazing thriller with plenty twists and turns. It's well constructed to keep the reader in the dark until the end although I did suspect who the mute jailer was from the start! I really like the manipulative sociopath hubby and seeing his true colours and trying to find a way to escape him and justice for what he's done. I really enjoyed it

Mixed feelings on this one. I've read all B. A PARIS books and this one has to be my least favourite so far. It was easy to read and I got through it quite fast but there was just something about it that didn't really grip me like the others. The ending felt a little underwhelming and it just had an undertone of a straight to dvd thriller movie. Not bad but not great.
Thanks to Netgalley for this Arc.

Sorry to say this book felt like a letdown from a normally reliable author. The plot centres around Amelie, who is kidnapped and taken to a mysterious location - but she seems kind of resigned to it from the outset. The story moves back and forward between her current predicament and her teenage years, where, finding herself an orphan at 16, she moves to London without knowing anyone (why? the most expensive place in the UK). Luckily she gets taken in by some rich women in their 30s who befriend Amelie and find her a job as a housekeeper. And then things change, and due to a plot point, she finds herself kidnapped and surrounded by dead bodies.

Didnt care about the characters - why could literally no-one be bothered to do a simple maths problem that my 10 year old could do in 2 minutes, even Amelie when it was meant to be the thing that bonded her to her father and was so symbolic to her, hadnt actually worked out the answer.

Disappointed, sorry.

I was completely enraptured in this book from the start. I did spend the first 70% of the book following the story but also not know what was going on. I really wanted to sus out what was going on and guess who was behind the kidnapping! It wasn’t until the last 20% that everything started to make sense and the story started to unravel.

It’s a fairly short book, less than 300 pages, but it really does pack a lot into it. However, I’m not satisfied with that ending - I need to know what happens next, it just ends too abruptly!

Oh, gosh! I’m afraid this is a nope, ‘did not like’ from me. It’s a story about a woman who has been kidnapped, interspersed with her upbringing (or lack of it) and where she ends up living on the streets.
I’m afraid I soon lost interest in caring why she had been kidnapped as well as by whom as I found it a very slow, difficult to finish, story.

It’s marketed as a psychological thriller, but, for me, there was nothing thrilling about it.

I hope it finds it’s audience, but, not for me.

I appreciate the opportunity to preview and thank NetGalley and Hodder & Stoughton.

This was everything you need for a thriller and crime story. It is not as black and white as you first think and like most typical thrillers, is full of twists. This is a first for me by the author and one I enjoyed and would read more of their work. The book cover is eye-catching and appealing and would spark my interest if in a bookshop. Thank you very much to the author, publisher and Netgalley for this ARC.

3.5/5.

This is a very carefully constructed story. Amelie is now twenty years old. Having recently lost her father, she has no other relatives but on moving to London she makes a number of female friends. However she wants to train as a lawyer but needs money. She has a job with a magazine producer who also has a complex history. Ned has fallen out with his super rich father who runs a foundation but inherited money from his grandfather. However, he has other issues arising from accusations of sexual assault. He persuades to with him to Las
Vegas, to have a brief marriage, a quick divorce and a substantial financial package for Amelie. That, he tells her, will stop his father trying to set up an arranged marriage. She falls for it. Then they both find themselves imprisoned in separate rooms supposedly to make Need’s father pay up. But it’s not all that simple as this detailed story develops. This book will keep you reading and I recommend it.

I enjoyed The Prisoner, one of those books you bang through in one sitting. A kidnap and a group of fascinating characters makes for an addictive read.

By the end however the fault lines were showing and honestly I didn't really need the careful explaining of things in the finale. By that point I'd already accepted that suspension of disbelief was key to The Prisoner.

Having said that it was fun and the first half is superb. For me it just lost cohesion as it unfolded however it was still wildly entertaining.