Land of the Living
Written by Nicci French
Narrated by Anne Flosnik
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Abbie Devereaux lies flat on her back, her arms and legs tied down, her head covered with a hood. She senses, but can't see, the eyes that watch her. She feels the unknown hands that touch her in the dark. She knows she has been kidnapped, even though she has little memory of her most recent past. And she knows that all she has to do is stay alive, even though everything she is experiencing tells her she won't. Miraculously, she escapes. One nightmare is over...but another is about to begin.
No one believes her story. Not the police who find her beaten and bruised on the outskirts of London, not the psychologists who interview her at the hospital. Desperate to piece together the fragments of her life and prove she is telling the truth, she returns to a strangely familiar existence. She discovers, but cannot remember why, she moved out of her boyfriend's apartment, left her job as an office planner, and moved in with a roommate who herself has mysteriously disappeared.
Now trying 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 the horror began.
Nicci French
Nicci French is the pseudonym of English wife-and-husband team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. Their acclaimed novels of psychological suspense have sold more than sixteen million copies around the world.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great narrator, excellent book! Thriller, mystery, romance, it had just about everything in it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Another very good offering from the duo known as Nicci French. Straight into the meat of the book from the very first sentence and building psychological tension as the book goes on. An enjoyable book that kept you wanting to read on and on and on to the ultimate climax. Had my theories who was behind it but not surprisingly I was wrong! Did get frustrated at the authorities at points during he book and I do feel the main character was let down by her friends. Happy to recommend the book to others. 4.5 stars.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5READ IN DUTCH
I really liked the first part of this book. I think it to be the strongest opening we've seen from Nicci French. It is intriguing and full of suspense. After that, unfortunately, the story looses quite some of its power. It starts become almost Bridget Jones like, and it is very clear from the moment the second part starts, where this will all eventually end. I think it's a shame, because the book started so well, that it had to end like the way it does. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5twisty, turny thriller:main character escapes from kidnap; police won't believe her; who should she trust and is it really a good idea to retrace her steps?
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was compelling but kind of inconsistent. I didn’t buy her whole memory loss. It seemed to focused, too specific. For example; she couldn’t remember the days that led up to her storming out of work. Wouldn’t something like that have been building up for a while? How could a person suddenly snap like that? I don’t buy it. She had no memory of the actual incident of storming out, but she should have remembered resentments or examples of things that made her angry with her employers in the first place. Same with her leaving her boyfriend, Terry. She can’t remember why in particular she left, but she can remember that she had fights with him in the past and that he hit her. At the same time, she’s convinced that he didn’t murder his new girlfriend Sally. How can she remember one thing but not another? It didn’t hang together for me.I didn’t like Abbie very much either. She seemed too spastic and too easy at the same time. One minute she can’t stand Ben Brody and the next minute she’s in bed with the guy. Then, because of a cryptic inscription inside a book of poetry, she flips out and runs away from him. Maybe the blow to the head was more severe than just memory loss.And how she followed the trail of the never to have been cat of her roommate (who she also didn’t remember but got really chummy with over a period of 4 days – as if). She goes from one weirdo to another who either collects cats or has saved a few from time to time. Why on earth would anyone get a cat in this way?? It was too unbelievable. Then when she finds the guy actually in the process of dealing with another captive and she puts his eyes out with her thumbs?? I didn’t buy that either. Too bad it wasn’t more like Beneath the Skin – that one was good.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The story starts with Abbie in the dark. Kidnapped at the hands of a man who promises to kill her. He has her hooded and bound and she's clinging to her sanity by a thin line. When she gets free she finds herself doubted and finds that there's an important week missing in her mind. Add to that that that police doubt her story and you have a very messed up situation.The first part of the book where she's kidnapped is very interesting but the second part where she's looking down the gaping pit of memory is the best part of the story. This isn't an amazing book but is a very good read.