Land of the Living Nicci French Author

Abbie Devereaux was threatened, gagged, kidnapped, starved, and imprisoned in an airless shed before she escaped her unknown captor. The trouble is, no one seems to believe her: Not the police who find her bruised and beaten on the front steps of a r... Read more

Abbie Devereaux was threatened, gagged, kidnapped, starved, and imprisoned in an airless shed before she escaped her unknown captor. The trouble is, no one seems to believe her: Not the police who find her bruised and beaten on the front steps of a run-down housing project on the outskirts of London; not the psychologists who interview her as she recovers in the hospital. Abbie doesn't remember most of the events that happened prior to her abduction, so there's little to corroborate her story. But Abbie is determined to put the fragments of her life in order and to discover what happened to her. Still, everywhere she goes, she is shocked to find evidence of the chaos of her previous life: she had moved out of her boyfriend's apartment; she had lost her job as an office planner; and she had moved in with a roommate who has since completely disappeared. Who can she trust? And where will she go? She's beginning to wonder if Detective Inspector Jack Cross is right and she's been making this all up as her life has been disintegrating.But Abbie knows that she can't get on with her life until she knows what has happened. Less