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Nicci French
She’s loved by all who meet her. But someone wants her gone . . .
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The first standalone psychological suspense novel from Nicci French in 10 years - a major publishing event
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A single mother suspects her young daughter has witnessed a horrible crime when the girl draws a disturbing picture–but the deadly path to unravel the truth could cost her everything…
The new keep-you-up-all-night suspense thriller from one of the UK’s best crime writers.
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The gripping and suspenseful new thriller from the acclaimed Nicci French. A woman missing. A family shattered. But can anyone really vanish without a trace?
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A nerve-tingling and atmospheric thriller from master of suspense Nicci French about two families shattered by tragedy and the secrets that have been waiting decades to be revealed.
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You wake in the dark, gagged and bound. A man visits you, feeds you. And tells you that he will kill you - just like all the rest. Abbie Devereaux…
A fiercely intelligent, multilayered thriller (Kirkus Reviews) from the bestselling author of Blue Monday Nicci French’s first Frieda Klein mystery, Blue Monday, won rave reviews everywhere-from People magazine to the…
Immensely intelligent and poignantly human, Frieda Klein has captivated book critics and crime readers everywhere with her debut outing as Blue Monday ‘s iconoclastic heroine. When five-year-old Matthew Farraday is…
First published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd., 2014.
THE MASTER OF PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS, BRINGING DANGER CLOSE TO HOME … When nobody is listening, how do you make yourself heard?
Originally published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph, an imprint of The Penguin Group in 2007. First U. S. edition published by St. Martin’s Press, an imprint of Macmillan in…
After psychologist Kit Quinn is brutally attacked by a prisoner, she is determined to get straight back to work. When the police want her help in linking the man who…
When Ruth Lennox, mother of three, is found dead in a pool of her own blood, Frieda Klein is called in to offer a new angle on the murder. But…
Psychotherapist Frieda Klein finds she has an unusually personal connection with DCI Karlsson’s latest case. She is no longer working with him in an official capacity, but when her niece…
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When a skeleton is unearthed in the Martellos’ garden, Jane Martello is shocked to learn it’s that of her childhood friend, Natalie, who went missing twenty-five years ago. Encouraged by…
Nina Landry has given up city life for the isolated community of Sandling Island, lying off the bleak east coast of England. At night the wind howls. Sometimes they are…
Psychotherapist Frieda Klein thought she was done with the police. But once more DCI Karlsson is knocking at her door. A man’s decomposed body has been found in the flat…
Twenty years ago teenager Frieda Klein was brutally attacked in her own home. No one believed her - not the police, not her mother, not her friends. She left town…
Cycle courier Astrid Bell is bad luck - for other people. First Astrid’s neighbour Peggy accidentally knocks her off her bike - and not long after is found bludgeoned to…
Ellie Faulkner’s world has been destroyed. Her husband Greg died in a car crash - and he wasn’t alone. In the passenger seat was the body of Milena Livingstone -…
Miranda Cotton thinks she’s put boyfriend Brendan out of her life for good. But two weeks later, he’s intimately involved with her sister. Soon what began as an embarrassment becomes…
Holly Krauss is a city girl burning the candle at both ends. Despite a comfortable home life, a tough job and friends who admire her, she secretly enjoys taking reckless…
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…
Alice Loudon couldn’t resist abandoning her old, safe life for a wild affair. And in Adam Tallis, a rugged mountaineer with a murky past, she finds a man who can…
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…
It was an open and shut case when eighteen-year-old Hannah Docherty was arrested for the brutal murder of her family; she’s been incarcerated ever since. When psychotherapist Frieda Klein is…
Klein’s home is her refuge until she returns to find it has become a disturbingly bloody crime scene. Beneath the floorboards the police have found the body of a man…
At long last, a reckoning is coming- the final novel in the internationally bestselling Frieda Klein series
On a north London high street, a runaway vehicle crashes to a halt…
Samantha Laschen is a doctor specialising in post-traumatic stress disorder. She’s moved to the coast to escape her problems and to be alone with her young daughter. But now the…
At the request of London police, psychologist Kit Quinn agrees to evaluate Michael Doll, a sexual predator who slashes her face. As she recovers, Kit has horrible dreams of a…
After Abbie Devereaux escapes a kidnapper, no one seems to believe her. Even worse, Abbie can’t remember anything prior to her abduction. Determined to prove she was kidnapped, Abbie sets…
A classic Nicci French novel is finally available in the U.S.
Alice Loudon has a devoted boyfriend and a challenging job as a research scientist. Then one morning, on her way to work, she exchanges a lingering look with a devastatingly…
Bonnie Graham is in her friend’s flat. She is alone, except for the dead body lying in a pool of blood. What happened? What will she do? And is any…
Originally published as Sunday morning coming down in 2017 by Penguin Random House UK. –Copyright page.
Tabitha is accused of murder [and] is in prison awaiting trial. There is a strong case against her, and she can’t remember what happened on December 21st. She is alone…
First published as Complicit in Great Britain by Michael Joseph, an imprint of the Penguin Group –T.p. verso.