Thank you to MBC Books, #partner, for a finished copy of The Kidnapping of Alice Ingold in exchange for my honest review.
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: November 1, 2025
Summary:
A harrowing abduction becomes a tantalizing nationwide game in a twisty and ingenious novel of suspense by a USA Today bestselling author.
Alice Ingold has been kidnapped. Call the police. Alert the media. You can’t play this game without all the pieces.
Beautiful, blond, and immensely privileged, Alice Ingold is the perfect victim for a true-crime obsessed culture—and for a masked duo with a singular purpose. Instead of a demand for ransom, her captors have a riddle, and they’re inviting the entire country to solve it.
No one is more invested in the search than Alice’s Catherine, a socialite with obscene generational wealth, and Brian, a visionary AI tech guru. But while Brian turns to machines to solve the problem, Catherine tries to crowdsource the solution, stopping at nothing to bring her daughter home. And America isn’t just watching the story unfold…it’s playing along. The nationwide scavenger hunt for Alice is on.
As an increasingly desperate Catherine strives to understand each new clue, a complex picture of the crime develops. Soon, everyone will see the kidnapping of Alice Ingold for what it is—and Alice won’t be the only one who will need saving.
My thoughts:
I have been a fan of this author for quite some time, and this latest book did not disappoint! I binged it in a day and loved every second of it. This is an abduction thriller with a twist I did not see coming and found to be incredibly clever and thought-provoking. I loved that not only is it told from multiple points of view, but there are also diary entries from Alice while she is being held captive. This all helps to not only propel the story forward but keep the suspense high. I really had no idea where this was headed and the riddles that the captives were sending out did not help — I couldn’t guess any of them! So many interesting messages woven into the story…again, very clever, very thought-provoking!
If you like thrillers with a true-crime vibe, books that are deeply unsettling and ones that feel all too real, this is definitely for you!
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