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Title: Land of the Living by Nicci French ISBN: 0-446-53151-0 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.41 (22 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Powerful thriller -- another winner from Nicci French!
Comment: I couldn't wait to pick up Nicci French's new thriller -- and I wasn't let down. Land of the Living is French's best work since Beneath the Skin.
In Land of the Living, French introduces the reader to Abbie Devereaux -- a young woman held captive. Bound from top to bottom in the dark, she is only able to hear her kidnapper's sinister voice. To make matters worse, she has no recollection of the time in which she had been accosted. She is able to escape from her attacker's grasp, but her nightmare has just begun...
Will she be able to adjust to life after the aforementioned experience? Will be able to get her memory back? Will she be able to find her attacker? There are various twists in this powerful thriller. The climax is flooring.
Nicci French's descriptions of the terror the protagonist goes through are precise. I was able to feel the heroine's fear and hopelessness. I couldn't put this book down and was savoring the pages like an exquisite bottle of wine. Are you in the bargain for a gripping, intelligent thriller? I recommend this fine novel.
Rating: 4
Summary: Amnesia undermines victim's word
Comment: British writer French's latest psychological thriller opens with protagonist Abbie Devereaux, waking tied and hooded, in a dank lair with no memory of how she got there. Or who she is. Time passes, her captor returns, taunting her with coming death, reveling in her helplessness. During the hours he's gone she concentrates on staying alive and tries to remember how she got there. This creepy, claustrophobic interlude of sustained terror goes on until the reader can hardly bear it, until, by a fluke of luck, Abbie gets free.
Traumatized, hospitalized, much of her memory returns, but the week or so before her capture remains blank. It's the police and the psychologists who discover she'd left her job and her boyfriend, that it had all been highly dramatic, that the boyfriend was abusive. With no evidence to back up her story of abduction, doubts arise and are finally resolved in a finding of delusion - case closed.
But Abbie knows the killer is out there and still after her. With her memory stubbornly blank, she must retrace her steps. French ("Killing Me Softly," "The Red Room") continually surprises - Abbie as well as the reader - as she reconstructs her movements, drawing closer and closer to danger. Abbie proves herself resourceful and strong (so what was she doing with the nasty alcoholic boyfriend?) and the psychological suspense mounts with constricting tension, building to a harrowing climax. Another winner for French in the tradition of Minette Walters and Ruth Rendell.
Rating: 4
Summary: 'LAND OF THE LIVING'
Comment: 'LAND OF THE LIVING' is the story of Abbie Devereaux, a young woman who is held captive by a strange man with no memory of how she got there or anything that happened in the days leading up to her capture. We follow Abbie as she tries to uncover the truth about why she was kidnapped as well as prove to the police that her story of being held against her will is true. This is the first novel by Nicci French that I have read and I devoured it in one day. The novel was fast paced and kept me guessing until the very end. I will be rushing out to buy other titles by French!
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Title: The Red Room by Nicci French ISBN: 0446611379 Publisher: Warner Vision Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Beneath the Skin by Nicci French ISBN: 0446609781 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Killing Me Softly : A Novel of Obsession by Nicci French ISBN: 0446608386 Publisher: Warner Vision Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Secret Smile by Nicci French ISBN: 0446533475 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 22 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The safe house by Nicci French ISBN: 0718143051 Publisher: M. Joseph Pub. Date: 1998 |
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