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Frantic is the only word to describe this offering from husband and wife writing team Nicci French. From start to finish its like you are racing through as confused and agitated as protagonist Alice Devereaux and you desperately want to reach the end and unwind the mystery of what has happened. It begins with Alice gagged, bound and hooded, kidnapped by a man whose face she never sees, tortured and tormented until finally she escapes, with no memory of what happened leading up to her kidnap or when she was taken. Unfortunately for Alice her ordeal is not over (otherwise it would be a very short book), a psychologist and police believe she has invented everything and Alice races to unravel the month before she was kidnapped, desperate for clues.
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My grievances with this novel are few, however, Alices lack of support from her friends and family, they put her up in their houses and lend money but there just isn't the support system of love and help you would expect from your friends and family and quite frankly, Alice is a bit of an idiot, running around retracing her previous steps but with only the afterthought of her own safety. The death of ex-boyfriend Terrys new girlfriend was a nice twist, i did wish however, that the kidnapper and murderer had been someone we had come across in the book nearer the beginning rather than being an unknown entity. It took me around two nights to finish this one, three stars, exactly what i've come to expect from Nicci French, yes you can put their books down, but you keep the questions in your mind until you can pick them back up and finish them.
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