18 books like Huntingtower

What to read after Huntingtower — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Destroyer Angel Nevada Barr · 2014 · 266p · ≈ 8h · Moderate After a summer fighting wildfire, park ranger Anna Pigeon is enjoying a weekend away camping in Minnesota's National Park with her girlfriends. Leah Hendricks is the genius behind a high-end sports gear manufacturer and Heath Jarrod has volunteered to test out some of the equipment. But when they encounter a band of violent kidnappers little do they realise that their ultimate challenge will be… Shares: Kidnapping, Missing persons

Riding the Rap Elmore Leonard · 1995 · ★ 3.9 · 326p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Debt-ridden Palm Beach playboy Warren "Chip" Ganz takes a rich man hostage. The trouble is he chooses bookmaker Harry Arno -- an expert scammer with a U.S. Marshal on his tail. When everybody's got a gun, someone's gonna get hurt. Shares: Kidnapping in fiction, Kidnapping, Missing persons

Chanda's wars Allan Stratton · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Moderate She promised her mama she'd keep them safe.It's been six months since Mama died, and Chanda is struggling to raise her little brother and sister. Determined to end a family feud, she takes them to her relatives' remote rural village.But across the nearby border, a brutal civil war is spreading. Rebels led by the ruthless General Mandiki attack at night, stealing children. All that separates… Shares: Kidnapping in fiction, Kidnapping

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner (With A Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts, And Other Evidence, By The Editor) James Hogg · 1824 · ★ 3.6 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Challenging "This now-famous book was given a hostile reception when it first appeared in 1824. It was not reprinted until the late 1830s, when a heavily bowdlerised version was included in a posthumous edition of Hogg's collected Tales and Sketches published by Blackie & Son of Glasgow. Thereafter Confessions of a Justified Sinner attracted little interest until the 1890s, when the unbowdlerised text was… Shares: Scotland in fiction, Scotland

The Sopranos Alan Warner · 1998 · ★ 3.9 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "The choir from Our Lady of Perpetual Succour School for Girls is being bused from the Port on Scotland's western coast to the national singing finals in the big, big city. And it's an important day for the Sopranos: Orla, Kylah, (Ra)Chell, Manda, and Fionnula (the Cooler) - pub crawling, shoplifting, and body-piercing being top priorities. Then it's time to lose that competition - lose, because… Shares: Scotland in fiction, Scotland

Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886 · ★ 3.8 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Challenging KIDNAPPED is an adventure story that has become the model for any thriller of escape and suspense. Set in 1751, the flight of David Balfour and Alan Breck across the Highlands of Scotland is based on real events. Though he wrote the book to make money, while living as an invalid in Bournemouth. Stevenson was proud of it; he inscribed a presentation copy with the couplet. Here is the one sound… Shares: Scotland, Kidnapping, British and irish fiction, Adventure

David Balfour Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Challenging From the book:It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Company’s office, must expect his late re-appearance to be greeted with hoots, if not with missiles. Yet, when I remember the days of our explo-rations, I am not without hope. There should be left in our native city some… Shares: Scotland, Kidnapping, British and irish fiction, Adventure

The raiders, being some passages in the life of John Faa, Lord and Earl of Little Egypt Samuel Rutherford Crockett · 1893 · ★ 4.1 · 391p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Crockett’s ‘breakthrough’ and most famous novel, first published in 1894, this is part of a loose trilogy of smugglers and gypsies stories featuring the Herons, the Maxwells and the Faas. Stevensonesque in style, it is unique in its descriptions of Galloway’s coast and hills and still thrills a modern audience. ‘'The Raiders ' vibrates with sufficient dramatic action for a dozen ordinary… Shares: Scotland, Adventure

Annals of the parish, or John Galt · 1821 · ★ 5.0 · 283p · ≈ 9h · Challenging The book is narrated by the Reverend Micah Balwhidder, a Presbyterian minister in the Ayrshire town of Dalmailing, and covers the years 1760 to 1810, the period of Robert Burns and the Industrial Revolution, when the economic and moral shape of Scottish life was changing in ways both explicit and invisible. The novel charts all this: the work of smugglers at Troon, new births in the parish, old… Shares: Scotland in fiction, Scotland

Step on a Crack James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge · 1658 · ★ 4.1 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Demanding With the unexpected death of a beloved former first lady, the nation falls into mourning as the world's most powerful people gather in New York for her funeral. Then the inconceivable occurs. Billionaires, politicians, and superstars of every kind are suddenly trapped by one man's brilliant and ruthless scenario. Pulled into the fray, Detective Michael Bennett-father of ten-faces the most… Shares: Kidnapping in fiction, Kidnapping, Adventure

The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes Diane Chamberlain · 2006 · ★ 4.1 · 496p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Twenty-eight years ago, a North Carolina governor’s young, pregnant wife was kidnapped. Now, her remains have been found and a man charged with her murder. Only one person-CeeCee Wilkes-can refute the charges against him. But CeeCee disappeared years ago. . . Eve Elliot is a successful therapist to troubled students, a loving wife, a mother deeply invested in her family. But her happiness is… Shares: Kidnapping in fiction, Kidnapping, Missing persons

Sail Of Stone Åke Edwardson · 2012 From bestselling Scandinavian crime writer Åke Edwardson—whose books are international sensations in Europe—comes this gripping novel of suspense and character involving two missing persons, two detectives, and a mystery dating to World War II.A brother and sister believe that their father has gone missing. They think he may have traveled in search of his father, who was presumed lost… Shares: Scotland, Missing persons

Secuestrado Danielle Steel · 1993 · ★ 3.8 · 347p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A la veille de la seconde guerre mondiale, les Patterson, Marielle, Malcolm et leur jeune fils Teddy, mènent une vie sans problèmes à New York. Marielle ne peut cependant pas oublier ces épreuves : un premier mariage rompu avec Charles Delauney, la mort tragique d'un enfant. Mais un jour, Marielle revoit son premier mari, son amour de jeunesse. Le passé ressurgit entre ces deux êtres passionnés. Shares: Kidnapping in fiction, Kidnapping

Saint Ted Dekker · 2006 · ★ 3.8 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate I know a few things about myself. I know that my name is Carl. My wife is Kelly. I love her more than my own life. If she told me to kill you, I would. I’m a captive, deep inside Hungary – no one knows I’m here. I can put a bullet into a ten-inch target at 3,000 yards. They tell me that I’m the best sniper in the world. Sometimes I sit in my dark hole for days without moving so that they don’t… Shares: Kidnapping, Missing persons

Daisychain G. J. Moffat · 2009 · ★ 4.5 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Over the course of three days, the paths of three people's lives will intersect and change forever ... Logan Finch is sitting pretty, with his penthouse apartment and a shot at making partner in Glasgow's largest law firm. Yet he still pines for the woman he thought was 'the one' and who left him with no word of explanation twelve years ago. Alex Cahill is a client and friend of Logan. The… Shares: Scotland, Missing persons

Back Spin Harlan Coben · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 375p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Kidnappers have snatched the teenage son of super-star golfer Linda Coldren and her husband, Jack, an aging pro, at the height of the U.S. Open. To help get the boy back, sports agent Myron Bolitar goes charging after clues and suspects from the Main Line mansions to a downtown cheaters' motel--and back in time to a U.S. Open twenty-three years ago, when Jack Coldren should have won, but didn't.… Shares: Kidnapping in fiction, Kidnapping

Never look away Linwood Barclay · 2010 · ★ 4.0 · 423p · ≈ 14h · Moderate In this tense, mesmerizing thriller by Linwood Barclay, critically acclaimed author of Fear the Worst and Too Close to Home, a man's life unravels around him when the unthinkable strikes.A warm summer Saturday. An amusement park. David Harwood is glad to be spending some quality time with his wife, Jan, and their four-year-old son. But what begins as a pleasant family outing turns into a… Shares: Kidnapping, Missing persons

The Taking of Libbie, SD David Housewright · 2010 · ★ 4.4 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In David Housewright's The Taking of Libbie, SD, a grifter cons an entire town using Mac McKenzie's name, leaving the real McKenzie facing an angry town with nothing left to lose.Rushmore McKenzie is a retired cop, an unexpected millionaire, and an occasional unlicensed private investigator. So, it isn't the biggest surprise in the world when he's attacked and kidnapped from his home—McKenzie has… Shares: Kidnapping, Missing persons

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