Mystery and Thriller Books That Should Be Movies
13 Thrillers That Should Be Movies (If Not Just So We Can Claim the Book Was Better)
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"You are not the first. And you will certainly not be the last."
When Rachel receives a bone chilling phone call after dropping her daughter Kylie off at the bus stop, it feels like her entire world is falling apart. Her daughter has been kidnapped. Rachel has to be strong and ruthless, as she follows the instructions from the woman on the phone. Pay a ransom, and find a child to abduct. This isn't an ordinary kidnapping. The call is from another mother, desperate to get her own child back, following the same instructions from another panicked parent. Rachel is now part of The Chain, an unending and enterprising scheme that turns victims into criminals.
Edgar Wright is supposedly directing the film version of this, but we haven't heard much of anything since last year.