Nicci French: Tuesday's Gone (USA 2014)

From the Publisher:
Nicci French's first Frieda Klein mystery, Blue Monday, won rave reviews everywhere -- from People magazine to the New York Times Book Review -- and earned comparisons to bestsellers by Kate Atkinson and Laura Lippman. In Tuesday's Gone, the solitary London psychotherapist returns in a brilliant thriller even more twisted than the last.

On a routine home visit, a London social worker discovers her psychotic client serving tea to a naked, decomposing corpse. Unable to make sense of the woman's confused ramblings, Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson asks Frieda Klein for help uncovering the dead man's identity. Frieda soon learns that he was a notorious con man -- one Robert Poole. But Frieda can't help feeling that Poole was killed to embroil her in the investigation, that her past isn't done with her yet. And if so, is Frieda herself the next victim?

Nicci French: Tuesday's Gone. A Frieda Klein Mystery. Penguin, ISBN: 9780143124962 (March, 2014), 371 p., $16.00.

Nicci French: Tuesday's Gone (USA 2013)

From the Publisher:
Internationally bestselling authors Nicci Gerard and Sean French, writing as Nicci French, have sold more than eight million copies of their books worldwide. But nothing they've written written before has grabbed the attention of reviewers and readers like Blue Monday and its iconic heroine, Frieda Klein. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called it a "superb psychological thriller... with brooding atmosphere, sustained suspense, a last-minute plot twist, and memorable cast of characters."

In Tuesday's Gone, a London social worker makes a routine home visit only to discover her client, Michelle Doyce, serving afternoon tea to a naked, decomposing corpse. With no clues as to the dead man's identity, Chief Inspector Karlsson again calls upon Frieda for help. She discovers that the body belongs to Robert Poole, con man extraordinaire. But Frieda can't shake the feeling that the past isn't done with her yet. Did someone kill Poole to embroil her in the investigation? And if so, is Frieda herself the next victim?

A masterpiece of paranoia, Tuesday's Gone draws readers inexorably into a fractured and faithless world as it brilliantly confirms Frieda Klein as a quintessential heroine for our times.

Nicci French: Tuesday's Gone. Viking / Pamela Dorman Books, ISBN: 9780670025671 (April, 2013), 371 p., $27.95.

Nicci French: Tuesday's Gone (UK 2013)

From the Publisher:
When a decomposing body is found in the flat of Michelle Doyce, a woman who is plainly deranged, the police call in psychotherapist Frieda Klein. They need Frieda to help Michelle identify the corpse. But the name Frieda eventually uncovers is that of a master conman whose victims turn out to be as numerous as the possible motives for his murder. The police need Frieda to figure out who rmight be telling the truth -- or lying -- as they draw closer to identifying the killer. But someone is determined to silence her... and will stop at nothing to do so.

Nicci French: Tuesday's Gone. The mind is a dangerous place to hide... Penguin, ISBN: 9780241950333 (January, 2013), 447 p., £7.99.

Nicci French: Tuesday's Gone (UK 2012)

From the Publisher:
For Frieda Klein the days get longer, the cases darker...
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 of Michelle Doyce, a woman trapped in a world of strange mental disorder. The police don't know who it is, how he got there or what happened - and Michelle can't tell them. But Karlsson hopes Frieda can get access to the truths buried beneath her confusion.

Painstakingly, Frieda uncovers a possible identity for the corpse: Robert Poole, a jack of all trades and master conman. But the deeper Frieda and Karlsson dig into Poole's past, the more of his victims they encounter - and the more motives they find for murder. Meanwhile, violent ghosts from Frieda's own past are returning to threaten her.

Unable to discover quite who is telling the truth and who is lying, they know they are getting closer to a killer. But whoever murdered Poole is determined to stay free - and anyone that gets too close will meet the same fate.

A gritty heroine, a gruesome crime and a terrifying hunt for a psychotic killer, Tuesday's Gone is not to be missed by fans of psychological thrillers.

Nicci French: Tuesday's Gone. Michael Joseph, ISBN: 9780718156954 (July, 2012), 447 p., £12.99.