Nicci French: Waiting for Wednesday (USA 2015)

From the Publisher:
In the third volume of the bestselling Frieda Klein Mystery series, the brilliant but troubled London psychotherapist returns only to journey into a darkness from which there may be no return...

Ruth Lennox, mother of three, is found dead in a pool of her own blood. Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson calls Frieda, hoping she can offer a new angle. But when it emerges that Ruth was leading a secret life, her family closes ranks. Still reeling from a recent attempt on her life, Frieda starts down a dangerous path that seems to lead to a serial killer who has long escaped detection. Is she getting closer to unraveling either case? Or is Frieda just the victim of her own paranoid, fragile mind?

Nicci French: Waiting for Wednesday. A Frieda Klein Mystery. Penguin, ISBN: 9780143127178 (January, 2015), 372 p., $16.00.

Nicci French: Waiting for Wednesday (USA 2014)

From the Publisher:
The thrilling third novel starring London psychotherapist-turned-detective Frieda Klein -- from internationally bestselling author Nicci French
Nicci French's Blue Monday and Tuesday's Gone introduced the brilliant yet reclusive psychotherapist Frieda Klein to widespread critical acclaim, but Waiting for Wednesday promises to be her most haunting case yet.

Ruth Lennox, housewife and mother of three, is found dead in a pool of her own blood. Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson can't piece together a motive and calls in Frieda, hoping her talents will offer a new angle on the case.

When it emerges that the mother was hiding a scandalous secret, her family closes ranks. Frieda herself is distracted, still reeling from an attempt on her life, and struggling with her own rare feelings of vulnerability. Then a patient's chance remark sends Frieda down a dangerous path that seems to lead to a serial killer who's long escaped detection. Is Frieda getting closer to unraveling either case? Or is she just the victim of her own paranoid, fragile mind? Because, as Frieda knows, every step closer to a killer is one more step into a darkness from which there may be no return...

Flawlessly executed, Waiting for Wednesday is a penetrating, twisted novel of murder and neurosis with a jaw-dropping climax that will linger in readers' minds long after they have turned the last page.

Nicci French: Waiting for Wednesday. A Novel. Viking / Pamela Dorman Books, ISBN: 9780670015771 (April, 2014), 372 p., $27.95.

Nicci French: Waiting for Wednesday (UK 2014)

From the Publisher:
'I had power over him, and that made me feel strong and tender at the same time'
Just a chance remark made by a potential client, but to psychotherapist Frieda Klein it sets off alarm bells. Haunted by their significance, she is driven to find out more, and her search draws her into a dark world of missing young women inhabited by a predator so careful, so subtle that the police aren't yet aware of his crimes. With each step Frieda gets closer to a silent killer whose determination to stay hidden is matched only by her desperate need to find him. And stay alive...

Nicci French: Waiting for Wednesday. Penguin, ISBN: 9780241950340 (January, 2014), 552 p., £7.99.

Nicci French: Waiting for Wednesday (UK 2013)

From the Publisher:
Ruth Lennox, beloved mother of three, is found by her daughter in a pool of her own blood. Who would want to murder an ordinary housewife? And why?

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 befriends Ruth Lennox's son, Ted, she finds herself in the awkward position of confidante to both Karlsson and Ted.

When it emerges that Ruth was leading a secret life, her family closes ranks and Karlsson finds he needs Frieda's help more than ever before.

But Frieda is distracted. Having survived an attack on her life, she is struggling to stay in control and when a patient's chance remark rings an alarm bell, she finds herself chasing down a path that seems to lead to a serial killer who has long escaped detection. Or is it merely a symptom of her own increasingly fragile mind?

Because, as Frieda knows, every step closer to a killer is one more step into a darkness from which there may be no return...

Nicci French: Waiting for Wednesday. Murder is all in the mind. Michael Joseph, ISBN: 9780718156985 (June, 2013), 498 p., £12.99.