Nicci French: The Red Room

Nicci French: The Red Room (UK 2018)

From the Publisher:
He almost took your life. Now his is in your hands...
When Leanne, a homeless young girl, is murdered beside a canal in North London, the police are certain that known oddball Michael Doll is the killer.

Psychologist Kit Quinn, assisting the investigation, has her own reasons to despise Doll - but she soon realises that the case is more complicated than the investigators suspect.

Because Kit has found a link to another death. Which means they might have a serial killer on their hands...

Nicci French: The Red Room. Penguin, ISBN: 9781405920650 (July, 2018), 406 p., £8.99.

Nicci French: The Red Room (UK 2015)

Psychologist Kit Quinn, assisting the investigation, has her own reasons to despise Doll - but she soon realises that the case is more complicated than the investigators suspect.

Because Kit has found a link to another death. Which means they might have a serial killer on their hands...

Nicci French: The Red Room. Penguin, ISBN: 9781405920650 (September, 2015), 406 p., £8.99.

Nicci French: The Red Room (UK 2008)

From the Publisher:
HE ALMOST TOOK YOUR LIFE. NOW HIS IS IN YOUR HANDS...
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 attacked her to a series of murders, she refuses to simply accept the obvious. But the closer her investigation takes her to the truth behind the savage crime, the nearer Kit gets to the dark heart of her own terror.

Nicci French: The Red Room. Penguin, ISBN: 0141034157 (March, 2008), 417 p., £7.99.

Nicci French: The Red Room (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
THE ONE PLACE SHE DARES NOT GO TO...
THE ONE PLACE SHE CANNOT ESCAPE FROM...
THE RED ROOM

The first time London police psychiatrist Kit Quin interviews a homeless sexual predator named Michael Doll, he slashes her face with a broken mug. Months later, after the emotionally vulnerable Kit is asked to question Doll about the killing of a teenage runaway, she reluctantly concedes his innocence and he walks free. Then another woman is abducted and murdered -- and again the clues lead to Doll. Now, as a seductive and mysterious new lover enters her life, Kit finds Michael Doll always in the shadows. Outside her doorway. Calling her on the phone. Wanting to have her. Yet, even as Doll's obsession escalates, Kit is gripped with a paralyzing fear that the killer isn't Doll -- but someone close to her heart...

THE RED ROOM
WHERE ALL YOUR NIGHTMARES BECOME REAL

Nicci French: The Red Room. Warner Vision, ISBN: 0446611379 (July, 2002), 468 p., $6.99.

Nicci French: The Red Room (UK 2002)

From the Publisher:
Psychologist Kit Quinn is a young woman doing a dangerous job. She inhabits a world of gruesome crime scenes, tense interrogations and violent insanity. On returning to work after a brutal attack, she is asked by the police to advise them on an apparently simple murder inquiry. The body of a young woman has been found by a London canal. The prime suspect is the man who attacked and scarred Kit.

Despite the insistence of the police, Kit refuses to accept the obvious answer and finds other crimes, other victims. Her obsessive search for the link between the cases leads her into the world of young street-people -- the missing, the unloved, those who try to save them and those who prey on them. Into the blood-dark heart of her own fears. Into the Red Room, and danger...

Nicci French: The Red Room. Penguin, ISBN: 014028107X (February, 2002), 406 p., £6.99.

Nicci French: The Red Room (USA 2001)

From the Publisher:
People magazine summed up her last book, Beneath the Skin, with four chilling words: "Goose bumps all over." Mademoiselle cautioned that it was "a gripping read for anywhere but home alone." Now, in her newest novel, bestselling author Nicci French ratchets up the level of psychological suspense as a psychiatrist becomes a psychopath's obsession... and perhaps his next victim.

THE RED ROOM

Interviewing people in police custody is part of Dr. Kit Quinn's job. But when Michael Doll, a disturbed derelict caught hanging around a London schoolyard, breaks a mug and tears up her face during questioning, he also cracks her composure and self-confidence. The incident leaves her with recurring dreams of a red room, where nightmares become real...

Three months later, Kit is again called upon to talk to Michael Doll after the police pick him up for the murder of a teenage runaway. Her colleagues in the department think that involving Kit in the case might help her recovery and put Doll behind bars for good. It doesn't do either. For Kit believes Doll didn't do it, and he walks free.

Touched by the fate of the homeless girl, Kit becomes involved in a dangerous, deadly inquiry. But when she links the teenager's murder to the high-profile case of a pretty blond housewife, abducted in broad daylight and killed, the main figure in the middle of it all is... Michael Doll. As her investigation continues, Kit finds him always in the shadows. Outside her doorway. Inside her apartment. Calling her on the phone. Wanting to love her. Yet, even with her fear escalating, Kit has the gut feeling that Doll isn't a killer. Even more frightening is her suspicion about who is...

In her previous books, Nicci French claimed the territory of violent obsession as her own. Here she explores the geography of the twisted psyche even more deeply, breaking new ground as she opens up the dark places in the human mind... and reveals the red room, a place of nightmares, inside us all.

Nicci French: The Red Room. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0892967307 (August, 2001), 328 p., $24.95.

Nicci French: The Red Room (UK 2001)

From the Publisher:
Kit Quinn is a young woman who inhabits dangerous worlds: crime scenes, interrogation scenes, hospitals for the criminally insane. Horribly wounded in a brutal attack, she must return to the site of her worst fears. She is asked by the police to advise them on a simple murder inquiry. A young runaway has been found killed by a London canal and the chief suspect is the man who wounded her.

But it isn't a simple case. Kit refuses to accept appearances, against opposition from the police and her own fears; she finds other crimes, other victims. Her obsessive search for the truth draws her into an underworld of abandoned and exploited young people, and puts her at terrible risk.

Nicci French follows the bestselling KILLING ME SOFTLY and BENEATH THE SKIN with this story of a woman's attraction to what most terrifies her. It is a poignant tale of the missing and the unloved, of those who save them and those who kill them.

Nicci French: The Red Room. Michael Joseph, ISBN: 0718145291 (June, 2001), 339 p., Hardcover £16.99, Trade Paperback £9.99.