Blue Monday: A Frieda Klein Mystery

Nicci French

Mar 2012 · A Frieda Klein Mystery Book 1 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

The stunning first book in a new series of psychological thrillers introducing an unforgettable London psychotherapist

Frieda Klein is a solitary, incisive psychotherapist who spends her sleepless nights walking along the ancient rivers that have been forced underground in modern London. She believes that the world is a messy, uncontrollable place, but what we can control is what is inside our heads. This attitude is reflected in her own life, which is an austere one of refuge, personal integrity, and order.

The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes a national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when his face is splashed over the newspapers, Frieda cannot ignore the coincidence: one of her patients has been having dreams in which he has a hunger for a child. A red-haired child he can describe in perfect detail, a child the spitting image of Matthew. She finds herself in the center of the investigation, serving as the reluctant sidekick of the chief inspector.

Drawing readers into a haunting world in which the terrors of the mind have spilled over into real life, Blue Monday introduces a compelling protagonist and a chilling mystery that will appeal to readers of dark crime fiction and fans of In Treatment and The Killing.

Ratings and reviews

This books is truly unbeliveable, in the worst way. Stock characters whose actions do not match their personalities. Uh, yet another loner, divorced acerbic Police Inspector and the new main character is a psychologist who is meant to have interesting habits, but these are so heavy handed they just get in the way. Coincidence and a reliance on the old conceit of identical twins. The other characters are irritating and the worst problem: The central issue of why these abducted children were taken absolutely makes no sense; no pedaphilia (thank god), no reason whatsoever. I have always had misgivings about this husband and wife team--their books are very clumsy. Not worth the time. Try their first book SECRET SMILE it is very good but the others -meh.

It was good, it kept my interest throughout. I guess I was a little disappointed because I have loved all of their books so much, and this wasn't quite as good. But I will definitely read the rest of the books in the series. Keep writing! You are one of my favorite authors. Secret Smile got me into reading again.

Superb perfect

About the author

Nicci French is the pseudonym for the internationally bestselling writing partnership of suspense writers Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. They are married and live in Suffolk and London, England.