Blue Monday Freida Klein 1

Author/Guide: Nicci French

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2000s: Psychotherapist Frieda Klein has a puzzling case to solve

ISBN: 978-1405911429
Genre: Crime, Psychological

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What you need to know before your trail

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 . . .

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London

In this city there were many ghosts”

A girl has gone missing and the police in fictional Camford Hill (London) set up an investigation.

This is the London where Freida knows well. Her job is going to be finding this girl and chasing these ghosts from the streets. The city is hers – she runs in Regent’s Park, walks up Tottenham Court Road, goes to the clubs in Soho and is stopped by police as she walks up Gray’s Inn Road as it’s not a road safe for women at night she says.

“It was one of the main rules about walking in London: you don’t make eye contact. It’s a challenge.”

Frieda is drawn to the dark shadows of the city though as these are the areas that fascinate her. Unremarkable parts of the city, railway lines, canals

“That was London. Things built on things built on things built on things, each in their turn forgotten about but each somehow leaving a trace, if only a rush through a grating”

This is the city Frieda works in.