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One of the best of these abduction thrillers is Carla Norton's debut, The Edge of Normal, the story of a former kidnapping victim who uses her experience to help a fellow victim.

Norton's true crime expertise and research into a real kidnapping situation set her apart from most other authors of abduction thrillers, so I hoped a Q&A with Norton would help illuminate the «why» of this trend.

This fall's publishing season has a lot of abduction thrillers, an especially creepy trend considering the real - life stories of the three women in Ohio who were found this year after being held in captivity for a decade.

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It's a story straight out of a John le Carré spy thriller complete with secret tape recordings, imprisonment, abductions, and banal conversations laced with ominous subtext.

SYNOPSIS Taylor Lautner stars as a young man unwittingly thrust into a deadly world of covert espionage in Lionsgate's action - thriller, ABDUCTION, directed by John Singleton.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening September 23, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS Abduction (PG - 13 for sexuality, teen partying, intense violence and brief profanity) John Singleton directs this action thriller about a teenager (Taylor Lautner) who ends up on the run from a team of hit men when he tries to determine his true identity after seeing his baby photo on a missing persons website.

Most filmmakers would turn a story about a mysterious child abduction and grieving parents desperate to save their kids into a cookie cutter psychological drama, then spice it up with a dash of teary melodrama and a pinch of hair - bristling thriller.

Though the curvy British actress was relegated to eye candy in «Prince of Persia,» the latest Bond adventure, and a «Clash of the Titans» remake, she showed acting chops in an underseen abduction thriller «The -LSB-...]

In his disturbing child - abduction thriller, The Captive, writer / director Atom Egoyan explores the ambiguous nature of the human condition and how ordinary people react when drawn into dreadful circumstances.

The new movie, which held its premiere here Tuesday night ahead of its Paramount release this weekend, is alternatively an abduction thriller, monster flick, science - fiction reverie, character comedy, horror pinprick, apocalyptic drama, duct - tape - and - chewing - gum chamber piece and alien - invasion movie.

But as I look into the fall mystery titles, it's clear that The Never List was just a starting shot to what looks to be the most disturbing trend of the year: abduction thrillers.