I want to read a book about kidnapping or someone gone missing. All suggestions welcome !
I want to read a book about kidnapping or someone gone missing. All suggestions welcome !
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The good girl by Mary kubica
All the missing girls by Megan miranda
Chevy Stevens has an amazing book called Still Missing. I think it would be perfect.
@Elizabeth this was going to be my suggestion as well
Close to Home by Cara Hunter
Gone Girl.
@Charissa love this book!
You by Caroline Kepnes
@Claire loved the series !!!
THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR by Shari Lapena!! ?
@Millenia loved this one !!!
@Millenia stolen a letter to my captor its so good
I recently read Elizabeth Smart’s book. It was really good, but made me emotional.
Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown
News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a true story and absolutely brilliant.
@Dave i just finished this last week. Excellent book! The story and testimonies are very accurate. I’m originally from Colombia so I know what it was to live there in the 80s & 90s.
Then she was gone by lisa jewell
Lost Girl by Adam Neville
Room by Emma Donoghue
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks.
Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney
There’s a book by John Saul…Perfect Nightmare (it’s the only book I’ve ever closed and quit…I just couldn’t handle it?)
Explain, please.
@Flo it’s told from the victims perspective, and it was just way too descriptive for me. Like…way too descriptive. ?
Ohh! Hm.
Find Her by Lisa Gardner
The Last Child by John Hart. It’s so good!
Touch and Go by Lisa Gardner.
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson if you enjoy classics.
Stolen by Lucy Christopher
If you’re looking for true crime. A Stolen Life by Jaycee Lee Duggard, or Secrets in the Cellar by John Glatt. Fiction Still Missing by Chevy Stevens.
I’m just now finishing up the Nine Minutes trilogy. I’ve had bk 1, Nine Minutes, in my kindle library since before there were bks 2 and 3. Thought it was just another bike story. I was so wrong! A kidnapping starts the series, which spans more than 25 years. Highly recommend it.
The girl in the red coat
Night Sins/Guilty as Sin by Tami Hoag
The Lovely Bones
@Leslie this was a really good one
I second The Lovely Bones. intense book and a movie I can watch athousand times (even though I cry my eyes out every time…)
Still missing by Beth Gutcheon
I’m going to have to write some of these down for myself
Don’t Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon
Might also be considered fantasy.
I loved Save Me by Crysa James. What a twist at the end.
The couple next door . Just finished it – about a six month old baby who goes missing
This was a good read!
@Chasity I struggled with how it was written first three chapters but after that it was great and couldn’t put it down
Same here ! My sister gave me the book and she told me to just keep reading lol.
Lois Duncan, mystery writer of “I know what you did last summer,” and more, wrote a book about her own daughter’s disappearance and death. Police never found the murderer. It’s an old title, but it’s interesting to read that perspective from someone who writes books about disappearances and mysteries.
Vanished: Staring Sheriff Carter Link
Where the missing go by emma someone lol her daughter goes missing , I dont wanna spoil it so prob best to read the blurb lol
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
Black Seconds by Karin Fossum.
Sycamore by Bryn Chancellor.
Girl, Stolen (by April Henry)
‘Pretty Girls’ by Karin Slaughter.
Read this a few years ago and still think about it from time to time!
Lovely bones !
Still Missing by Chevy Stevens
Room – Emma Donoghue
Three Days Missing by Kimberly Belle.
Here After – Sean Costello
The cellar and the butterfly garden
Abduction by Varian Krylov
Screaming in the Silence by Lydia Kelly
Comfort Food by Kitty Thomas
Monday isn’t coming
Not Her Daughter by Rea Frey
No Time for Goodbye
99 red balloons by Elizabeth Carpenter . so good read it in 2 days.
The laughing man
@Michelle ~ To my opinion, try to create (write) your own idea of how a kidnapping would take place and create characters most likely to be involved. I am writing one now.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143775
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29981261
The Secrets She Keeps by Michael Robotham
I just finished a really good one! The Nowhere Child by Christian White.
Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter.
@Tasha love Karin Slaughter. Haven’t read this on yet.
Descent by Tim Johnston.
What was mine by Helen Klein Ross
Starting just with already suggested books that I would also recommend. You, The Lovely Bones, and The Cellar were all quite good. All The Missing Girls, Gone Girl, The Couple Next Door, Pretty Girls, and The Butterfly Garden are all books I physical own but haven’t read yet, but they definitely were intriguing premises.
Other suggestions
Girl Last Seen by Nina Laurin
After Anna. There’s actually 2 books by this name, and the one by Alex Lake is closer to what you’re looking for but the one by Lisa Scottoline is also good and might be a good fit for you.
The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molley.
Where Are the Children by Mary Higgins Clark.
Those are just a few I can think of, assuming you’re looking for fiction. I didn’t track my true crime books for years, because I was most heavily into the genre before Goodreads existed, so unfortunately I can’t remember titles.
check Harlan Coben, many of his stand alone books are about that
Bring me back by B.A. Paris or Not That I Could Tell by Jessica Strawser.
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
The butterfly garden
My sisters grave
The silent child
I’m reading one now called Her Last Goodbye