Nicci French: The Safe House (UK 2015)

From the Publisher:
You open your home and your heart to a victim. But your house is anything but safe...
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 police want her to take in Fiona Mackenzie, a girl whose parents have been savagely murdered. Yet by allowing Fiona in, Sam is exposing herself - and her daughter - to risks she couldn't possibly have imagined...

Nicci French: The Safe House. Penguin, ISBN: 9781405920667 (September, 2015), 361 p., £8.99.

Nicci French: The Safe House (UK 2008)

From the Publisher:
YOU OPEN YOUR HOME AND YOUR HEART TO A VICTIM. BUT YOUR HOUSE IS ANYTHING BUT SAFE...
SAMANTHA LASCHEN is a doctor specializing 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 police want her to take in Fiona Mackermie, a girl whose parents have been savagely murdered. Yet by allowing Fiona in, Sam is exposing herself - and her daughter - to risks she couldn't possibly have imagined...

Nicci French: The Safe House. Penguin, ISBN: 9780141034126 (March, 2008), 361 p., £7.99.

Nicci French: The Safe House (UK 2002)

From the Publisher:
Nicci French makes her TV debut this Autumn with this chilling crime thriller. Samantha Laschen, a doctor specializing in post-traumatic stress disorder, has moved to the Essex coast with her small daughter but when she takes in a young girl who survived a savage attack, Sam discovers that the risks she has foreseen are nothing to the terrifying danger she actually faces...

Nicci French: The Safe House. Penguin, ISBN: 0141002425 (July, 2002), 372 p., £6.99.

Nicci French: The Safe House (UK 1999)

From the Publisher:
Samantha Laschen, a doctor specialising in post-traumatic stress disorder, has moved to the Essex coast with her small daughter, Elsie, to escape the problems of her London life. Or so she thinks.

Fiona Mackenzie barely survived the savage, murderous attack which left her parents dead. Now she is in need of sanctuary and the police see Sam as the ideal person to offer her a safe house. Already overburdened with the demands of a new job and her mercurial lover Danny, Sam agrees to take her in. But as Fiona makes her way into the hearts of her hosts, Sam discovers that the risks she has foreseen are nothing to the terrifying danger she actually faces...

Nicci French: The Safe House. Penguin, ISBN: 0140270361 (May, 1999), 372 p., £6.99.

Nicci French: The Safe House (UK 1998)

From the Publisher:
'There has been a savage, murderous attack in a quiet prosperous suburb of a provincial English town. It has left two dead, and a teenage girl with her throat cut - but alive. Who could have committed such an atrocity? Could they strike again?

In search of a haven for their one witness, the police turn to Dr Samantha Laschen, who seems ideally qualified to be a protector. She is a pioneering specialist in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder and she has just moved from London to isolated house in the bleak Essex fenlands.

Sam Laschen is already over-burdened, torn between the demands of her mercurial lover, Danny, her medical career, and her little daughter, Elsie. But, whether out of professional pride or a desire to help a suffering girl, she cannot resist the police's request for help in providing sanctuary.

There are threats from outside and disorder within, but Sam believes that as a brilliant doctor and a loving friend she can protect and nurture a damaged woman. But things go horribly wrong. What begins as a favour and a professional experiment ends with Sam fighting for her sanity, for the truth, and ultimately for the very survival of all that in most precious to her.

A moving and terrifying story about safety and its illusions, about those we love, those we lose and those we let down, The Safe House is also a compulsively readable thriller.

Nicci French: The Safe House. Michael Joseph, ISBN: 0718143043 (May, 1998), 309 p., £10.00.