I am a big fan of  “unputdownable psychological thrillers,” and a huge fan of B.A. Paris’s Behind Closed Doors (2016),   Bring Me Back (2018),  The Dilemma (2020), and last year’s The Therapist, I was happy to receive a copy of The Prisoner from St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley in return for my honest review.

One of the things I love about this author is knowing she is the mother of five girls and she waited til they were grown to start her writing career in earnest. She has made up for lost time, with a string of entertaining books that seem to feature unlikeable millenials in weird, often dangerous situations. 

This time, the unlikeable millennial is a woman named  Amelie a young woman who lost her parents when she was a child in Paris and went on to  make it on her own in London. She was living a glamorous lifestyle and then married a handsome billionaire named Ned Hawthorne. So far, so good, right?One day, Amelie wakes up in a pitch-black room, having no clue about where she is. She seems to have been abducted, but she has no idea by whom, where she is, or why she feels safer as a prisoner than with Ned (?). It’s all very creepy and mysterious and there are shifting points of view and plotlines that aren’t immediately clear but all seem to come together in the end. Four stars.