Monday, the lowest point of the week. A day of dark impulses. A day to snatch a child from the streets ...The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes a national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when a picture of 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 child he can describe in perfect detail, a child the spitting image of Matthew.Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson doesn't take Frieda's concerns seriously until a link emerges with an unsolved child abduction twenty years ago and he summons Frieda to interview the victim's sister, hoping she can stir hidden memories. Before long, Frieda is at the center of the race to track the kidnapper.But her race isn't physical. She must chase down the darkest paths of a psychopath's mind to find the answers to Matthew Farraday's whereabouts.And sometimes the mind is the deadliest place to lose yourself.
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Blue Monday: A Frieda Klein Novel (1)
By Nicci French
Monday, the lowest point of the week. A day of dark impulses. A day to snatch a child from the streets ...The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes a national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when a picture of 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 child he can describe in perfect detail, a child the spitting image of Matthew.Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson doesn't take Frieda's concerns seriously until a link emerges with an unsolved child abduction twenty years ago and he summons Frieda to interview the victim's sister, hoping she can stir hidden memories. Before long, Frieda is at the center of the race to track the kidnapper.But her race isn't physical. She must chase down the darkest paths of a psychopath's mind to find the answers to Matthew Farraday's whereabouts.And sometimes the mind is the deadliest place to lose yourself.
Popular Reviews(1)
Reviewed by EllemirI am a little torn about this book. I loved the setting, the way the author (in fact two authors - husband and wife) described London, especially the parts you would never see as a tourist. The first chapter, telling about an abduction of a little girl more than twenty years ago was quite catching. Then the author starts to introduce the main characters - and there are many of them, so the book gets a little slow. Some of the events seem to be almost unrelated and the main character, Frieda Klein, a psychologist with personal problems, is not entirely believable all the time - and I have problems accepting that a layperson - okay, a psychologist in this case, which partly explains it - helping the police solves the case much faster and better than the police. On the other hand, the characters were well drawn, the case was interesting <spoiler>- although I had some problems with the twin issue. I know that there seems to be a bond between identical twins, even when they are not raised together and that their lifes tend to have a lot of similarities - but some of the stuff in this novel was hard to believe.</spoiler> I liked the book and will read the sequels - in fact I already read the second book of the series before the first (not a great idea in this case - too many spoilers).