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Case Closed

An Extended Excerpt from The Prisoner

Case Closed

Macmillan

True Crime, News

4.12K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Get your crime and mystery fix with this excerpt from BA Paris' THE PRISONER.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello from all of us at Macmillan Audio.

0:10.3

If you enjoyed Case Closed, there's a new audiobook from New York Times best-selling

0:15.7

author BA Paris that we know you'll love.

0:20.0

Read by Georgia McGuire, the prisoner is a stunning new thriller about one woman wed into

0:26.1

a family with deadly intentions.

0:30.2

Take a listen to the first 20 minutes right now and then get the full audiobook wherever

0:35.8

audiobooks are sold when it goes on sale November 1st.

0:47.0

Part 1 The Kidnap

0:52.2

Chapter 1

0:54.2

I sense the shift of air beneath my nose a millisecond before something thick, sticky

1:02.1

tape is clamped over my mouth, silencing the scream that would have ripped from me.

1:08.8

My eyes snap open.

1:11.0

A dark silhouette is bending over my bed.

1:14.9

Adrenaline surges.

1:16.2

Move.

1:17.2

Grab the knife.

1:18.8

I twist my arm toward my pillow but a hand slams onto my wrist holding it still.

1:24.2

Hold from the bed I kick out but my feet flail uselessly find only air.

1:30.8

I try to focus but my mind is spinning.

1:33.1

Why did I fall asleep?

1:35.1

I should have been expecting this.

1:38.0

My arms are pulled behind my back, my wrists bound together.

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