Abbie Devereaux wakes up one day and finds she can't move. She can't see anything either and she seems to have lost a crucial bit of her memory. She runs through all possible scenarios and arrives at the obvious one : She's been kidnapped. As to why and how she still does not know. Her captor shows up once per day and feeds her, only to disappear again and to leave her (and the reader) to her thoughts in the darkness.
Well, if that doesn't make you feel claustrophobic, I don't know what will. For me at least it was one of the most intense reading experiences so far. Actually at one point I was worried that the whole book would be like that, Abbie lying in the darkness, trying to think of escape and struggling to keep her sanity. To answer that question, she does escape, but that doesn't necessarily mean her ordeals are over. She tries to get her life back and most of all to fill those blanks in her memory. All the time knowing that the kidnapper is still around and may still be after her.
Abbie seems to be a typical Nicci French protagonist. A business woman with hidden qualities that surface under stress. Well, I have no problem with that, I took an instant liking to all of them so far. And even if you think that Abbie is not determined, only stubborn, it still makes for very interesting and captivating reading. This may be the best psychological thriller by the Nicci French team yet.
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