Land of the Living (2003) is a psychological thriller novel by Nicci French,[1][2] the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife team of English suspense writers, Nicci Gerrard and Sean French.

One day, Abbie Deveraux wakes up in the dark to find she has been kidnapped and tied to a chair.

Ending her relationship with her boyfriend and quitting her job, she couldn't remember any of this, not even the fact that she had been seeing someone else.

In a fear that he knows everything about her, where she lives, where she goes, she wants to trace back her steps of what she had done the days before she had disappeared.

But the mysterious incident continues to haunt her, she can't think of anything else other than getting the man who had tormented her and to find the other girls that he mentioned he had killed.