Gone

How it reads

Gone is thriller (psychological kidnapping thriller, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.

It's set in several locations, in the present day, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are secrets, justice and loss and grief. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.

It's a later book in a series — you'll usually want to start earlier. The ending resolves happily. At 480 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.