I'm not going to waste too much time on how this is such a good book and the characters, plot, pacing, setting etc etc are as good as always. I'll make an exception in writing a bit about Frieda, as even two people who know her well find it necessary to warn the investigating officer that Frieda is different. Her demeanor is usually taken as cold and indifferent by those who don't know her well, whereas first impressions could not be more wrong concerning Frieda. A bloated corpse turns up in the Thames, throat slashed, and the only clue is a hospital wristband reading Dr. F. Klein. Frieda is taken to see the body and realizes with horror that it is Sandy, her ex-boyfriend. She’s certain that the killer is Dean Reeve—the man who has never stopped haunting her. But the police think he has been dead for years, and Frieda is their number one suspect. With few options, Frieda goes on the run to save herself and try to uncover the truth. stars. In London, psychotherapist Frieda Klein comes home from a hard day to find a nasty smell, which leads to a dead body under the floorboards of her house. She knows the victim. He has been helping her look for her nemesis Dean Reeve but looks like Reeve found him first. At least the police now believe Reeve is alive and killing. As the people close around her are beaten, kidnapped, and even murdered, Frieda works with the police and media. Using her unusual skill of noticing things that others don't, she believes someone else is obsessing about her besides Reeve. I am very much looking forward to her next adventure and touching base with the eclectic cast again soon!

Ik heb het boek inmiddels herlezen. Ik ben vanochtend begonnen en zojuist heb ik het uitgelezen. Ik zat vanaf het begin in het verhaal en het leest vlot. Ik heb me dit keer niet zo aan Frieda geërgerd als de eerste keer dat ik het las. Al snapte ik haar gedrag niet helemaal. Het verhaal is niet zo spannend dat je continu op het puntje van je stoel zit. Toch is het wel zo boeiend dat ik bleef ik lezen. Ik kon weinig van het verhaal herinneren, ook al las ik het eerder. Ik wist zelfs niet meer wie het gedaan heeft. Wel wist ik nog dat een van haar tijdelijke huisgenoten haar bedrogen had. Terwijl Frieda juist zo behulpzaam en goedaardig was. Ik heb zojuist deel 6 gereserveerd bij de bibliotheek. Vanaf dat deel heb ik de serie niet meer gelezen, dus ik ben erg benieuwd hoe ik dat boek ga ervaren. Ook heeft deel 5 genoeg losse eindjes om verder op te borduren. Nicci went on to complete her school education from The Alice Ottley School, located in Worcester. After that, she joined the Oxford University and studied English Literature. Nicci also went on to obtain her degree in Master of Philosophy from the Sheffield University in the year 1986. Nicci was looking for a job after completing her post graduation from the Sheffield University. It was then when she decided to teach literature and went to places like London and Los Angeles in this regard. Her next job after teaching was working as a freelance journalist. But before that, author Nicci Gerrard founded a magazine for women. During the same time, she got married for the first time to Colin Hughes and became the mother of a couple of kids. However, some complications began to develop in her happy married life and she was finding it very difficult to manage it along with her profession as a freelance journalist. In 1989 she became acting literary editor at the New Statesman, before moving to the Observer, where she was deputy literary editor for five years, and then a feature writer and executive editor. A thought-provoking, fast-paced, well written thriller containing several twists and a surprise ending, this novel will appeal to fans Sophisticated, compassionate, gripping . . . Not many books are as insightful as they are addictive; Nicci French's are' Sophie HannahThis fourth installment in the Frieda Klein British mystery procedural is a bit of a departure from the previous chapters. The plot involves the beating, kidnapping, and one murder of individuals who are all are known to Klein and her own life is threatened. The culprit seems to be linked to a psychopathic killer who was also involved in past books which I haven't read and know nothing about. So you see my problem. Though Frieda is determined to protect her loyal friends from the fall out of the case, they rally to support her, even when it puts them at risk of prosecution. Karlsson in particular faces trouble when he defends Freida against the vindictive police commissioner and his pet psychiatrist. Josef shrugs off threats of deportation, doing everything he can to aid Frieda's fight, and even the emotionally fragile Sasha doesn't hesitate to offer her refuge. 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 . . .

I was never quite certain why he committed the first crimes he did. (I can’t say much without giving away Blue Monday‘s plot.) He feel more like an omnipresent “feeling” than a fully developed character like, say, Josef or Frieda or Karlsson. My other complaint is that s everal books revolve around deaths by hanging, which the police assume are suicides but turn out to be murders. She has a lead: a previous abduction, from twenty years ago. One that only Frieda, an expert on the minds of disturbed individuals, can uncover. Throughout the series she tangles with the police force’s preferred “profiler,” the pompous but media-savvy Hal Bradshaw. He’s disdainful of Frieda, mostly because she’s often right and he isn’t. (He has a small moment of redemption in the final book.) I can’t say how accurate French’s interpretation of psychoanalytic work is, but it’s interesting how it’s worked into the plot and character development. I wrote down some of her thoughts. The subject of rape is one I find difficult to read, period. Although this book doesn’t go into graphic details, the reaction of parents, friends, police officers, and men in general, is enough to boil the blood and is both disturbing and emotional watching the victims suffer this way. But, sadly, this is most likely a more accurate depiction than I want to believe.When psychotherapist Frieda Klein is asked to meet Hannah and give her assessment of her, she reluctantly agrees. What she finds horrifies her. And Frieda is haunted by the thought that Hannah might be as much of a victim as her family; that something wasn't right all those years ago.