The Prisoner: The bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club pick for 2023
By B.A. Paris

Secrets. Suspicion. Survival. No one writes relationships better than B.A. PARIS'A rollercoaster ride, with plenty of twists'and OBSERVER'The explosive start of this book sets up a compelling plot [...] written in well-executed super-edgy, short, sharp chapters and the description of her confinement is full of claustrophobic detail and menace'and DAILY MAIL'Book of the Month: chilling, intense and frightening in places, you'll be left wondering what is real and what isn't'and WOMAN andamp; HOMETHENAmelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own in London. As she builds a career for herself in the magazine industry, she meets, and agrees to marry, Ned Hawthorne.NOWAmelie wakes up in a pitch-black room, not knowing where she is. Why has she been taken? Who are her mysterious captors? And why does she soon feel safer here, imprisoned, than she had begun to feel with her husband Ned?In true B.A. Paris style,and The Prisonerand is a gripping survival story, a twisted tale of love and at its dark heart a thriller to keep you up all night.'Elegant, taut, ingeniously plotted and extremely addictive. Superb!'and WILL DEAN'Dark and compulsive ... B.A. Paris again conjures up the tense claustrophobia of BEHIND CLOSED DOORS and delivers yet another brilliant, unputdownable read'and GILLY MACMILLAN'I loved the short chapters in part one, which really added to the rising tension. You will be rooting for Amelie!'and PRIMA'Dark, daring and irresistible. B.A. Paris takes a clever, sinister survival story and further elevates it with her trademark style and heart. Truly impossible to put down'and CHRIS WHITAKER'Wow! What a ride! A tantalising, taut, tense thriller'and JANE CORRY'Pacy, gripping from the get-go, and with so many twists! I felt so strongly for Amelie and was rooting for her the entire book. The Prisoner is a brilliant addition to BA Paris's stella stable of thrillers'and L.V. MATTHEWS'Intense and gripping,and The Prisonerand is suffused with intrigue and menace'and EMMA HAUGHTON'Clever, twisty and unusual'and LOUISE BEECH'Taut, suspenseful, loaded with twists and surprises, and the true definition of a just-one-more-chapter page-turner. It's another B.A. Paris triumph -- complex, compelling and absolutely impossible to resist.and C.M. EWAN'So utterly gripping I finished it in one heart-racing afternoon. Clobbered me from the first page and kept me hostage until I'd turned the last'and EMMA BAMFORD'[T]his web of fear and lies is much more complex, satisfyingly so, thanand Room, involving many more characters, intricate plotting, and layers of subterfuge. Paris's fans won't be disappointed and readers new to the author will be hooked'and FIRST CLUE