Caller Unknown
A Novel
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3.7 • 82 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • "An unputdownable adventure that was both heartwarming and thrilling! Everything I've come to expect from Gillian McAllister!" —Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author
How far would you go to rescue your child? A mother races against the clock—and finds herself on the wrong side of the law—in a desperate fight to save her teenage daughter in this pulse-pounding thriller from the author of Reese’s Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong Time.
There is nothing that Simone won’t do for her daughter, Lucy. The two have always been close, and with Lucy about to leave home for university, they depart the UK for a vacation to Texas to spend some quality time together. But when Simone awakens on their first morning in the desert, Lucy is gone, missing from their rental cabin. In her place is a cell phone, and a voice on the other line issues a shocking ransom demand. Don’t tell the police. Come to this location. And be prepared to do a deal…
Though Simone’s husband urges her to bring in the authorities for help, she knows she can’t take any chances. The kidnappers might kill Lucy if she tells anyone. No mother would take that risk. Instead, that night, she drives to the isolated meet-up.
What she finds there changes everything. The mysterious kidnapper doesn’t want money. They want Simone to do something. The unthinkable.
A catastrophic chain of events is set in motion, with chilling consequences that extend beyond Simone and her family. What follows is a heart-pounding journey through the small towns and punishing deserts of remote Texas, in which Simone’s courage—and morality—is pushed to the brink as she discovers what it truly means to be a mother.
Unbearably tense, compassionately told, and full of well-crafted moral dilemmas, Caller Unknown proves once again why Gillian McAllister’s thrillers are “the best of the best” (Lisa Jewell).
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
To ransom her kidnapped daughter, a mother must break the law, putting them both at greater risk in this emotionally fraught thriller. When Simone’s college-bound daughter, Lucy, is kidnapped on their vacation in rural South Texas, she’s prepared to pay any ransom. But the kidnappers aren’t interested in money. They want her to carry a mysterious package across the border into Mexico—and things only get darker from there. Best-selling thriller writer Gillian McAllister really amps up the tension, stoking Simone’s maternal fears and desperation into a fevered blaze. While propelling this emotional cat-and-mouse chase forward with wild plot twists, she also captures the desolate isolation of the Texas landscape—all while her strong female characters find opportunities to either redeem themselves or sink further into a deadly trap. Filled with moral conundrums and never-saw-that-coming turns, Caller Unknown keeps tightening the screws.
