The words, plot and atmosphere are dark, haunting and suspenseful. She feels she has no other choice but to report this to the police.These authors excel at writing psychological thrillers. Frieda Klein is treating a troubled man and some of the things he says brings her to believe that he is somehow involved with the missing child. Now some twenty two years later, another child has been taken in a similar manner. Rosie gets to the shop first, but Joanna never arrives.
Rose is both resentful of having her younger sister trailing along behind her, and preoccupied with thoughts of their stop at the local sweet shop.
A dark, complicated story with a troubled, interesting main character and a gut wrenching plot about children made this book an intense read.The book opens with a trip to the past, on a day in 1987 when a little girl called Rosie Vine and her younger sister, Joanna are on their way home from school. Blue Monday gets this series off to a stellar start. I am excited to have now started their series about psychotherapist Frieda Klein. I have long been a fan of the husband and wife writing team that is known as Nicci French but up to now I have stuck to their stand-alone thrillers. She finds herself in the center of the investigation, serving as the reluctant sidekick of the chief inspector.ĭrawing 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. A red-haired child he can describe in perfect detail, a child the spitting image of Matthew. 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.
The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes a national outcry and a desperate police hunt. This attitude is reflected in her own life, which is an austere one of refuge, personal integrity, and order. She believes that the world is a messy, uncontrollable place, but what we can control is what is inside our heads. The stunning first book in a new series of psychological thrillers introducing an unforgettable London psychotherapistįrieda Klein is a solitary, incisive psychotherapist who spends her sleepless nights walking along the ancient rivers that have been forced underground in modern London.
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