Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book and for The Globe 100 Books in 2013.

"In the creation of David Slaney, Lisa Moore brings us an unforgettable character, embodying the exuberance and energy of misspent youth. Caught is a propulsive and harrowing read."—Patrick deWitt, author of The Sisters Brothers

Internationally acclaimed author Lisa Moore offers us a remarkable new novel about a man who escapes from prison to embark upon one of the most ambitious pot-smuggling adventures ever attempted.

Here are bravado and betrayal, bad weather and seas, love, undercover agents, the collusion of governments, unbridled ambition, innocence and the loss thereof, and many, many bales of marijuana. Here, too, is the seeming invincibility of youth and all the folly that it allows.

Caught is an exuberant, relentlessly suspenseful, and utterly unique novel, and promises to be the astonishing Lisa Moore’s most accomplished work to date.

Lisa Moore is the acclaimed author of the novels Caught, February, and Alligator. Caught was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize and is now a major CBC television series starring Allan Hawco. February won CBC’s Canada Reads competition, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and was named a New Yorker Best Book of the Year and a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. Alligator was a finalist for the Scotia Bank Giller Prize, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Canada and the Caribbean region), and was a national bestseller. Her story collection Open was a finalist for the Scotia Bank Giller Prize and a national bestseller. Her most recent work is a collection of short stories called Something for Everyone. Lisa lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

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Matt Wells is a Newfoundland–born actor, writer, and musician who has shared the stage with everyone from Slayer and Damage Plan to Sammy Hagar and Levon Helm. His life in music led to a career as a music and film journalist and television host for Much, MuchMore, and MTV Canada, bringing him face to face with artists such as Lou Reed, John Lydon, Adele, Ben Kingsley, and Quentin Tarantino. Since shifting focus to filmmaking he is best known for his award–winning short film “Poison in the Water,” which he wrote and starred in alongside his daughter Sofia. He is also a producer and co-star in the 2018 feature film Crown and Anchor.

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…sharp lines, seedy characters and the kind of can’t-put-it-down suspense you might expect from a dime store detective novel but with Lisa Moore-level construction, detail and meticulous prose. This isn’t Moore slumming it in suspense fiction—but genre elevation…

The Coast

With linguistic verve and a magnified curiosity about whatever passes through her field of vision, Moore elevates the cops-and-robbers subgenre to literary respectability.

Winnipeg Review

Lisa Moore’s new book is a beautiful piece of writing…

Winnipeg Free Press

A superbly written novel that crosses literary boundaries, Caught will surely garner [Moore] even wider readership.

Atlantic Books Today

…Caught proceeds like a lit fuse.

Georgia Straight

…precise, compressed, intimately rhythmic, mesmerizingly smart.

Globe and Mail

The reader can only marvel at the precision of Moore's observations.

Literary Review of Canada

As trippy, mellow, and revelatory as Hearn’s weed, Caught takes pleasure from rewriting crime formulas and gives pleasure in doing so.

The Vancouver Sun

[Lisa Moore’s] written a new kind of legend for a new Newfoundland.

Reader's Digest

...Moore’s Caught is a fantastic read. It’s a rapid ride, with a strong current of tension that never lets up.

PRISM international

Caught is a pleasure to read. The narrative is cohesive and propulsive, but it’s Moore’s mastery of language and image that sets her apart.

Quill & Quire

...witty, retrospective, eloquent and exciting. Moore has crafted an old-timey adventure with good guys and bad guys — who are also one in the same.

Chatelaine

Caught is an outstanding novel, combining the complexity of the best literary fiction with the page-turning compulsive readability of a thriller.

National Post

[T]his novel that is rife with realness, and beauty, and tension; so much it hurts, in the best possible way.

Newfoundland Quarterly

Moore’s prose is as vivid as ever...

NOW Magazine

This is an author who grips you with her impeccable use of language. The novel walks a great line between paperback levity and psychological intelligence—exactly what you want in a summer read.

Maclean's

Moore's ability to conceal a drum-tight plot line and an unflagging fidelity to the thematic pillars of Caught—mistakes and luck, trust and doubt, consequences and freedom—in the cloak of rough-and-tumble prose is something to behold.

The Malahat Review

There is so much more to praise Moore for. The novel is rich with her subtle injections of humour, her careful pacing, and her clear yet coarse dialogue that leaves just enough unsaid. Of course, it also lives up to the ultimate test of a thriller – there is no doubt that this is a page-turner.

McGill Daily

…in Caught Moore has clearly set out to challenge the conventions of crime writing.

Cult Montreal

Even we, as readers, will be caught by the timbre and skill of Moore’s storytelling and her careful sculpting of characters.

Chronicle Herald