The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes national outcry and a desperate police hunt. I look forward to the next Freda Klein with anticipation.Extract from the blistering new novel by crime-writing duo Nicci French, soon to be available as an unabridged audiobook recording.

Hopefully some of the main characters will turn up in future books and we can see how life is treating them over the next few years. In many books the author seems to spend the last few pages pulling together all the loose ends, sometimes with no real credibility but given the number of strands running through the story Nicci French resolved what needed to be resolved but left me with quite a bit to think about afterwards. The plot had a twist at the end which I should have seen coming but didn't. Each had entirely different objectives during the book and it all came together at the end. I enjoyed the contrast between the quietly self sufficient Dr Freda Klein and the police suffering huge pressure to resolve the case.

A great read by Beth Chalmers, which given the mixture of men, women and children could have been a disaster. The double act writing as Nicci French are new to me and certainly two heads work well with this new series. And sometimes the mind is the deadliest place to lose yourself. She must chase down the darkest paths of a psychopath's mind to find the answers to Matthew Farraday's whereabouts. Before long, Frieda is at the centre of the race to track the kidnapper. A child he can describe in perfect detail, a child the spitting image of Matthew.ĭetective Chief Inspector Karlsson doesn't take Frieda's concerns seriously until a link emerges with an unsolved abduction twenty years ago and he summons Frieda to interview the victim's sister, hoping she can stir hidden memories.

And when his face is splashed over the newspapers, psychotherapist Frieda Klein is left troubled: one of her patients has been relating dreams in which he has a hunger for a child. A day to snatch a child from the streets. The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Blue Monday, the first in a fantastic new series from the masters of psychological thrillers, Nicci French.

Blue monday by nicci french