Nicci French, Author Mysterious Press $24 (360p) ISBN 978-0-89296-697-4
A critically acclaimed, bestselling British author (The Memory Game), French makes her American debut with a stunning novel of sexual obsession. Alice Loudon has a wonderful boyfriend, Jake; a nice apartment in London; good friends; and a satisfying
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Nicci French. Morrow, $15.99 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-267670-2
French’s eighth and final novel about London psychotherapist Frieda Klein (after Sunday Silence) never rebounds from its sluggish start, in which a car crashes into a store. Behind the wheel is a man who has been dead for several days, the possible...
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Nicci French. Morrow, $15.99 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-267668-9
In French’s disappointing seventh thriller starring London psychotherapist Frieda Klein (after 2017’s Dark Saturday), Frieda discovers the decomposing corpse of Bruce Stringer, an ex-policeman she hired to help her search for murderer Dean Reeve,...
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Nicci French. Morrow, $15.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-267666-5
French’s suspenseful but clumsily plotted sixth Frieda Klein thriller (after 2015’s Friday on My Mind) finds the London psychotherapist under pressure from shadowy power brokers to stick her nose into one of the country’s most notorious crimes. They
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Nicci French. Penguin, $16 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-14-312722-2
Crisp prose and an intriguing main character distinguish French’s strong fifth mystery featuring London psychotherapist Frieda Klein (after 2015’s Thursday’s Child). A hospital ID band with Frieda’s name on it is found on the wrist of a man floating
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Nicci French. Penguin, $16 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-14-312721-5
At the start of French’s stunning fourth mystery featuring psychotherapist Frieda Klein (after 2014’s Waiting for Wednesday), a former classmate of Frieda’s from her hometown of Braxton, Maddie Capel, appears at her London office. Maddie is...
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Nicci French. Viking/Pam Dorman, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-01577-1
Two strangely parallel murder cases, both involving obvious suspects who are later cleared, preoccupy Frieda Klein in French’s intricate and disturbing third novel featuring the London-based psychotherapist (after 2012’s Tuesday’s Gone). Ruth Lennox,
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Nicci French. Viking/Pam Dorman, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-02567-1
In the pseudonymous French’s eerie sequel to 2012’s Blue Monday, strong-willed but brittle London psychotherapist Frieda Klein once again assists Det. Chief Insp. Malcolm Karlsson, this time in piecing together a murdered conman’s true identity....
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Nicci French. Viking/Pamela Dorman, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-02336-3
This superb psychological thriller from the pseudonymous French (The Other Side of the Door) stars a cerebral and self-contained London psychotherapist, Frieda Klein. When one of Frieda’s patients describes longings for a child eerily like five-year-
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Nicci French, Author . Warner/Mysterious $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-89296-730-8
Following two highly praised psychothrillers (Killing Me Softly
and Beneath the Skin), this fiction noir will be welcomed by French's avid readers. However, the fragmented, wandering—at times almost directionless—narrative won'
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Nicci French, Author Mysterious Press $40 (384p) ISBN 978-0-89296-726-1
French delivers a powerfully intricate follow-up to her first novel (Killing Me Softly) in this psychological thriller. Zoe Haratounian (a pre-school teacher), Jennifer Hintlesham (a former model and mother of three) and Nadia Blake (a children's...
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Nicci French, Author . Minotaur $25.99 (375p) ISBN 978-0-312-37540-9
At the start of this pitch-perfect thriller from British author French, the husband-wife team of Sean French and Nicci Gerard, band singer Bonnie finds her “summer fling” boyfriend and fellow band member, Hayden, dead on the floor of a...
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Nicci French, Author . Minotaur $25.95 (376p) ISBN 978-0-312-37539-3
Narrated by buff, beautiful Astrid Bell, the first part of this engaging thriller from husband-wife writing team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French (Losing You
) sets up the puzzle pieces, red herrings and all. Astrid shares a large decrepit London house
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Nicci French, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur $23.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-312-37538-6
A mother fights to keep her composure as she hunts for her missing child in this nuanced, literate thriller from the husband-wife writing team of Nicci Gerrard and Sean French (Killing Me Softly
). Shortly before Christmas, Nina Landry, a divorced...
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Nicci French, Author . Warner $24.95 (326p) ISBN 978-0-446-57848-6
Long before the diagnosis is pronounced, readers will recognize that 27-year-old London executive Holly Krauss, the heroine of French's disappointing new novel (after 2004's Secret Smile
), is suffering from bipolar disorder, though Holly'
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Nicci French, Author . Warner $24 (308p) ISBN 978-0-446-53347-8
A starred review indicates a book of outstanding quality. A review with a blue-tinted title indicates a book of unusual commercial interest that hasn't received a starred or boxed review.
SECRET SMILE
Nicci French
. Warner
, $24 (304p) ISBN 0-44
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Nicci French, Author . Warner $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-446-53151-1
A horrifying premise catalyzes this fast-paced, suspenseful thriller: A woman wakes up in a darkened room, bound, disoriented, unable to recall the recent past. She is terrorized and abused by a strange man who taunts her with the names of other...
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Nicci French. Morrow, $15.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-267672-6
Family drama and office politics take center stage in this tense standalone from the pseudonymous French, the husband-and-wife writing team of Nicci Gerrard and Sean French (the Frieda Klein series). Neve Connolly’s discreet affair with her married...
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Nicci French. Morrow, $16.99 trade paper (528p) ISBN 978-0-06-302135-8
Accused murderer Tabitha Hardy, the protagonist of this ambitious standalone from the pseudonymous French (the Frieda Klein series), starts with two strikes against her. First, the London copy editor impulsively fires her court-appointed counsel and
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Nicci French. Morrow, $16.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-287609-6
This excellent standalone from the pseudonymous French (House of Correction) opens as London furniture restorer Ellie Falkner learns that her husband, Greg Manning, has died in a car crash that also killed his female passenger, married party planner
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Nicci French. Morrow, $27.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-313776-9
The anxieties of Londoner Tess Moreau, the narrator of this middling standalone from the pseudonymous French (the Frieda Klein series), about raising her inquisitive three-year-old daughter, Poppy, by herself ramp up after the girl spends a weekend...
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Nicci French. Morrow, $17.95 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-324362-0
London physician Jude Winter, the protagonist of this slow-moving suspense novel from the pseudonymous French (The Unheard), is planning her wedding when, after 11 years of no contact, her first love, Liam Birch, comes to see her and asks for a...
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