Nicci French: Land of the Living (UK 2008)

From the Publisher:
YOU WAKE IN THE DARK, GAGGED AND BOUND. HE SAYS HE WILL KILL YOU - JUST LIKE ALL THE REST...
Abbie Devereaux doesn't know where she is or how she got there. She's so terrified she can barely remember her own name - and she's sure of just one thing: that she will survive this nightmare. But even if she does make it back to the land of the living, Abbie knows that he'll still be out there, looking for her. And next time, there may be no escape...

Nicci French: Land of the Living. Penguin, ISBN: 9780141034164 (March, 2008), 369 p., £7.99.

Nicci French: Land of the Living (USA 2004)

From the Publisher:
Abbie Devereaux lies flat on her back, her arms and legs tied down, her head covered with a hood. She senses the eyes that watch her. She feels the unknown hands that touch her in the dark. She knows she has been kidnapped, and that somehow she must stay alive, even though the terror seizing her heart tells her she won't. Miraculously, she escapes. One nightmare is over. But another is about to start.

To her shock, Abbie discovers that all her memories about her past-where she lives, whether she has a job, where she stands with her boyfriend-seem to be wrong. As the police question her credibility, she realizes there's only one way to reclaim her mind and her life. She must dare to retrace her steps to the place where all the horror began-and confront a madman before he strikes again...

Nicci French: Land of the Living. A Novel. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446613886 (April, 2004), 341 p., $7.50.

Nicci French: Land of the Living (UK 2003)

From the Publisher:
ABBIE DEVEREAUX WAKES IN THE DARK, HOODED AND BOUND...
She doesn't know where she is nor who it is feeding her, talking to her -- threatening to kill her. Yet Abbie has courage and, above all, hope. She escapes her captor and runs back into the light. But the real world, the safe one, isn't as she remembers it. There are days missing before she disappeared -- days when she quit her job and left her boyfriend, did things she can't explain to the police, her friends or even herself. Why won't anyone take her story seriously? Because if Abbie can't convince anybody that it really happened, then maybe he will come for her again. And she will wake in the dark, hooded and bound...

Nicci French: Land of the Living. Penguin, ISBN: 0141006501 (November, 2003), 377 p., £6.99.

Nicci French: Land of the Living (USA 2003)

From the Publisher:
THEY SAY YOUR MEMORY CAN'T BE TRUSTED.
THEY SAY YOUR STORY DOESN'T CHECK OUT.

THEY SAY YOU WERE NEVER BLINDFOLDED... STARVED...
OR IMPRISONED IN A FILTHY SHED LIKE AN ANIMAL.

BUT YOU KNOW IT HAPPENED.
AND YOU KNOW IT CAN HAPPEN AGAIN.

From the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of The Red Room and Killing Me Softly comes a stunning new thriller that takes you into a place far beyond your worst fears...

LAND OF THE LIVING

Miraculously, she escapes. One nightmare is over... but another is about to begin.

Her memories of the recent past -- where she lives, whether she has a job, where she stands with her boyfriend -- are oddly out of synch with reality, her normal, everyday life in "the land of the living." As the authorities question her credibility, Abbie can't help but wonder if there is a connection between the facts she has forgotten and the kidnapping itself.

Now there's only one way to reclaim both her mind and her life -- and stop a monstrous psycho-killer. She must dare to retrace her steps to the place where all the horror began.

A masterful achievement of brilliantly etched characters and harrowing suspense, LAND OF THE LIVING will shock you at every turn... and force you to walk the fine line between madness and fear.

Nicci French: Land of the Living. A Novel. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446531510 (May, 2003), 341 p., $23.95.

Nicci French: Land of the Living (UK 2003)

From the Publisher:
Abbie Devereaux wakes in the dark. She is hooded and bound at her hands and feets. She doesn't know where she is or how she got there. A Man she never sees feeds her and talks to her. He promises to keep her alive for now but says he will kill her - like the others.

But Abbie has spirit, strength and bloody-mindedness on her side. She counts the seconds she is alone, tells herself stories, remembers her life, talks to her captor and plots her survival. Above all she dreams of returning to normal, careless, everyday life - the land of the living.

Among her memories are a horribly stressfull career and a disintegrating relationship with her boyfriend, Terry. Could there be a connection between her real life and the voice in the darkness? And how can she survive in a place where fear becomes madness and the effort to survive seems too much to bear?

Nicci French: Land of the Living. Michael Joseph, ISBN: 0718145186 (February, 2003), 309 p., Hardcover £16.99, Trade Paperback £9.99.