Monday: five-year-old Matthew Faraday is abducted. His face is splashed across newspaper front pages. His parents and the police are desperate. Can anyone help find their little boy before it is too late? Psychotherapist Frieda Klein just might know something. One of her patients describes dreams of seizing a boy who is the spitting image of Matthew. Convinced at first the police will dismiss her fears out of hand, Frieda reluctantly finds herself drawn into the heart of the case. A previous abduction, from twenty years ago, suggests a new lead - one that only Frieda, an expert on the minds of disturbed individuals, can uncover. Struggling to make sense of this terrifying investigation, Frieda will face her darkest fears in the hunt for a clever and brutal killer...
Frieda Klein Séries
Cette série suit Frieda Klein, une psychothérapeute londonienne entraînée dans des enquêtes criminelles complexes. À chaque épisode, elle plonge plus profondément dans les coins sombres de la psyché humaine, découvrant des secrets cachés sous la surface de vies apparemment ordinaires. Ses brillantes compétences analytiques et son empathie la font avancer, tout en affrontant ses propres démons. C'est une lecture captivante pour les amateurs de thrillers psychologiques.
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Lorsque l'assistante sociale vient faire sa visite de routine à Michelle Doyce, une dame d'une soixantaine d'années victime de troubles de la personnalité, elle ne s'attend pas à trouver dans le salon un homme mort, nu comme un ver, une pâtisserie à la main... Michelle est incapable d'expliquer les circonstances ni de donner le nom de la victime, plongeant la police dans le plus profond désarroi. En dernier recours, le commissaire Karlsson fait donc appel à la psychologue Frieda Klein, qui a déjà prouvé lors de leur dernière enquête à quel point son analyse est précieuse. Frieda est persuadée que Michelle est innocente mais qu'elle détient la clé du mystère. L'enquête avance enfin le jour où une certaine Janet Ferris déclare à la police la disparition de son voisin, qui s'avère être la victime. Mais plus Frieda et Karlsson creusent dans le passé de ce Robert Poole, plus le mystère s'épaissit. Manipulateur hors pair de femmes solitaires et vulnérables, il s'est fait de nombreux ennemis, tous des suspects. Pendant ce temps, Frieda ne peut se défaire du sentiment que quelqu'un, dans l'ombre, la suit...
Ruth Lennox, beloved mother of three, is found by her daughter in a pool of her own blood. Who would want to murder an ordinary housewife? And why? Psychotherapist Frieda Klein finds she has an unusually personal connection with DCI Karlsson's latest case
Thursday's Children by Nicci French is the fourth novel in the bestselling Frieda Klein series, following Blue Monday, Tuesday's Gone and Waiting for Wednesday. Expect the same satisfyingly rich combination of brilliant, three-dimensional characters, psychological suspense, police procedural and ever-present menace. It's sure to add to Nicci French and Frieda Klein's growing number of fans. Praise for the Frieda Klein series: 'Brilliantly crafted . . . masterly control of suspense' Daily Mirror 'Tense, frightening, gripping' Easy Living 'Nerve-tingling and addictive' Daily Express Nicci French is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of journalists Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. The couple are married and live in Suffolk. There are fourteen other bestselling novels by Nicci French, all published by Penguin. Blue Monday was the first thrilling instalment in the Frieda Klein series, followed by Tuesday's Gone and Waiting for Wednesday.
Rich in intrigue, intensity and atmosphere, Friday on my Mind is classic Nicci French - a dark, gripping and sophisticated masterclass in psychological suspense in which nothing is quite what it seems ...'Nicci French's sophisticated, compassionate and gripping crime novels stand head and shoulders above the competition' Sophie Hannah When a bloated corpse is found floating in the River Thames the police can at least sure that identifying the victim will be straightforward. Around the dead man's wrist is a hospital band. On it are the words Dr F. Klein ...But psychotherapist Frieda Klein is very much alive. And, after evidence linking her to the murder is discovered, she becomes the prime suspect. Unable to convince the police of her innocence, Frieda is forced to make a bold decision in order to piece together the terrible truth before it's too late either for her or for those she loves. Friday on my Mind is the fifth addictive and intriguing novel in the Frieda Klein series by the bestselling author Nicci French.
Saturday Requiem
- 400pages
- 14 heures de lecture
Thirteen years ago eighteen-year-old Hannah Docherty was arrested for the brutal murder of her family. It was an open and shut case and Hannah's been incarcerated in a secure hospital ever since. When psychotherapist Frieda Klein is asked to meet Hannah and give her assessment of her she reluctantly agrees. What she finds horrifies her
Psychotherapist Dr Frieda Klein once again finds herself in the midst of a criminal investigation when the rotting body of an ex-policeman is found beneath the floorboards of her house. The corpse is only months old but the main suspect, murderer Dean Reeve, died over seven years ago. As the killer picks off his next victims and her home is turned into a crime scene, Frieda's old life seems like a hazy dream. With eyes of the world upon her and no answers from the police, Frieda realises that she will have to track this killer before he tracks down those she loves.
Day of the Dead
- 320pages
- 12 heures de lecture
On a north London high street, a runaway vehicle crashes to a halt. The man in the driving seat was murdered a week earlier. On Hampstead Heath, a bonfire blazes- in the flames lies the next victim. As autumn leaves fall, a serial killer runs amok in the capital, playing games with the police. The death toll is rising fast, and the investigation is floundering. But this is no ordinary killer, and every new victim is intended as a message to just one woman. Because psychologist Frieda Klein is in hiding. And someone is coming to find her . . . After seven stunning novels, Frieda Klein's duel with her dark nemesis finally comes to a climax - and only one can make it out alive.
