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Nicci French - The ​Safe House
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. 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 - Saturday ​Requiem
Thirteen ​years ago eighteen year old Hannah Docherty was arrested for the brutal murder of her family. It was an open and shut case and Hannah's been incarcerated in a secure hospital ever since. When psychotherapist Frieda Klein is asked to meet Hannah and give her assessment of her she reluctantly agrees. What she finds horrifies her. Hannah has become a tragic figure, old before her time. And Frieda is haunted by the thought that Hannah might be as much of a victim as her family; that something wasn't right all those years ago. And as Hannah's case takes hold of her, Frieda soon begins to realise that she's up against someone who'll go to any lengths to protect themselves . . .

Nicci French - Losing ​You
Nina ​Landry is supposed to be taking her two children on a Christmas holiday today. But the road away from Sandling Island seems littered with obstacles. Most pressing of all, her 15-year-old daughter, Charlie, has yet to return from a night out... Minute by minute, Nina's unease builds to worry and then panic. Has Charlie run away? Or has something more sinister happened to her? And why will nobody take her disappearance seriously? As a series of half-buried secrets lead Nina from sickening suspicion to deadly certainty, the question becomes less whether she and her daughter will leave the island for Christmas - and more whether they'll ever leave it again.

Nicci French - Until ​It's Over
Young ​and athletic, London cycle courier Astrid Bell is bad luck - for other people. First Astrid's neighbour Peggy Farrell accidentally knocks her off her bike - and not long after is found bludgeoned to death in an alley. Then a few days later, Astrid is asked to pick up a package from a wealthy woman called Ingrid de Soto, only to find the client murdered in the hall of her luxurious home. For the police it's more than coincidence. For Astrid and her six housemates it's the beginning of a nightmare: suspicious glances, bitter accusations, fallings out and a growing fear that the worst is yet to comea Because of it's true that bad luck comes in threes - who will be the next to die?

Nicci French - Friday ​on My Mind
When ​a bloated corpse is found floating in the River Thames the police can at least sure that identifying the victim will be straightforward. Around the dead man's wrist is a hospital band. On it are the words Dr F. Klein. But psychotherapist Frieda Klein is very much alive. And, after evidence linking her to the murder is discovered, she becomes the prime suspect. Unable to convince the police of her innocence, Frieda is forced to make a bold decision in order to piece together the terrible truth before it's too late either for her or for those she loves.

Nicci French - Blue ​Monday
Monday, ​the lowest point of the week. A day of dark impulses. A day to snatch a child from the streets ... The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes a national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when a picture of his face is splashed over the newspapers, psychotherapist Frieda Klein is left troubled: one of her patients has been relating dreams in which he has a hunger for a child. A child he can describe in perfect detail, a child the spitting image of Matthew. Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson doesn't take Frieda's concerns seriously until a link emerges with an unsolved child abduction twenty years ago and he summons Frieda to interview the victim's sister, hoping she can stir hidden memories. Before long, Frieda is at the center of the race to track the kidnapper. But her race isn't physical. She must chase down the darkest paths of a psychopath's mind to find the answers to Matthew Farraday's whereabouts. And sometimes the mind is the deadliest place to lose yourself.

Nicci French - Waiting ​for Wednesday
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 - Sunday ​Morning Coming Down
Lover ​of London, gifted psychologist, frequent police consultant — Frieda Klein is many things. And now she's a person of interest in a murder case. A body has been discovered in the most unlikely and horrifying of places: beneath the floorboards of Frieda's house. The corpse is only months old, but the chief suspect appears to have died more than seven years ago. Except as Frieda knows all too well, he's alive and well and living in secret. And it seems he's inspired a copycat... As the days pass and the body count rises, Frieda finds herself caught in a fatal tug-of-war between two killers: one who won't let her go, and another who can't let her live.

Nicci French - Thursday's ​Children
When ​psychotherapist Frieda Klein left the sleepy Suffolk coastal town she grew up in she never intended to return. Left behind were friends, family, life and loves but, alongside them, painful memories; a past she couldn't allow to destroy her. So when an old classmate appears in London asking Frieda to help her teenage daughter, long buried memories resurface. But when tragedy strikes, Frieda has no choice but to return home and confront her past. And monsters no one else believes are real . . . Through a fog of alibis, conflicting accounts, hidden agendas and questionable alibis, Frieda can trust no one in trying to piece together the shocking truth, past and present. When it comes to psychological suspense there's none better than Nicci French. And Thursday's Children is Nicci French at her very best.

Nicci French - Beneath ​the Skin
Zoe, ​Jennifer, and Nadia are three women with nothing in common. Except for the man who wants to kill them. He sends them terrifying letters, full of the intimate details of their lives - the clothes they wear, their little habits, how they act when they think they're alone - and promises that he will bring those lives to a violent, horrible end. But not before he has enjoyed himself. Invisible and apparently unstoppable, he delights in watching the women suffer, thrilled by his power to destroy their lives and their faith in those closest to them; to leave them utterly helpless, alone in their terror and confusion. But they're not all as helpless as he thinks...

Nicci French - Der ​Glaspavillon
Der ​Glaspavillon Als im Park des Landhauses der Familie Martello ein Skelett gefunden wird, bricht eine scheinbar heile Welt zusammen. Denn bei der Toten handelt es sich um Natalie, die seit 25 Jahren verschwundene Tochter des Hauses. Nach den ersten Untersuchungen steht fest: Natalie wurde damals ermordet. Jane Martello, Natalies Schwägerin und beste Freundin, macht sich auf die Suche nach der Wahrheit. Noch ahnt sie nicht, welchen Abgründen des eigenen Ichs sie sich nähert.

Nicci French - Land ​of the Living
One ​day, Abbie Deveraux wakes up in the dark to find she has been kidnapped and tied to a chair. She can't remember how she got there, all she knows is her loved ones may be looking for her and she wants to escape this prison. She manages to escape. Going back to her friends and boyfriend she realises that her last few days with them had been strange. Ending her relationship with her boyfriend and quitting her job, she couldn't remember any of this, not even the fact that she had been seeing someone else. As well as this her friends don't believe her kidnapping and being tied up. In a fear that he knows everything about her, where she lives, where she goes, she wants to trace back her steps of what she had done the days before she had disappeared. In an attempt for him not to find her, she changes her image and style. But the mysterious incident continues to haunt her, she can't think of anything else other than getting the man who had tormented her and to find the other girls that he mentioned he had killed.

Robert Crais - Sarah Addison Allen - Nicci French - Paul Doiron - Első ​szabály / A lány, aki a holdra vágyott / A vadorzó fia / Teendők halál esetén
Robert ​Crais: Első szabály Brutális kegyetlenséggel meggyilkolják a Los Angelesben élő Meyer család tagjait, és a rendőrség olyan betörésként kezeli az esetet, amely balul ütött ki. Joe Pike azonban más véleményen van. Ő jól ismerte a családfőt, hiszen sok évvel korábban együtt harcoltak zsoldosként a világ számos országában. Elképzelhető, hogy az indítékot kettejük közös múltjában kell keresni? Pike elhatározza, hogy addig nem nyugszik, míg fel nem deríti a gyilkosok kilétét, és bosszút nem áll egykori bajtársa megölése miatt. Sarah Addison Allen: A lány, aki a holdra vágyott Üdvözöljük Mullabyban, ahol reggelente találkozhat egy jövőbe látó óriással, ahol a torták illatát csillámporként viszi szárnyán a szél, és ahol családok olyan titkokat rejtenek, amelyek egyszerűen varázslatosak! A tizenhét éves Emily Benedict azért érkezik az észak-karolinai kisvárosba, hogy kibogozza az édesanyja életét övező rejtélyeket. Miért kellett a mamájának fiatalkorában hirtelen elhagynia Mullabyt, és miért fogadta meg, hogy soha többé nem tér vissza szülővárosába. Paul Doiron: A vadorzó fia Egy vadőr munkája valójában alig különbözik egy rendőrétől, csak a körzete maga az erdő. Elsősorban az a feladata, hogy érvényt szerezzen a törvénynek, és segítse a bajba jutott embereket és állatokat. A Maine államban élő Mike Bowditch vadőr azonban roppant kínos helyzetbe kerül, amikor édesapját, az erdő mélyén lakó orvvadászt gyilkossággal gyanúsítják. Vajon a vadorzó fia képes lesz-e bebizonyítani egy olyan ember ártatlanságát, akit máskülönben mindenki egyértelműen bűnösnek tart? Nicci French: Teendők halál esetén Mrs. Falkner egy októberi hétfő este arra nyitja ki a bejárati ajtót, hogy két rendőrnő áll a küszöbön, akik közlik vele, hogy a férje, Greg halálos kimenetelű autóbalesetet szenvedett. Ráadásul a férfi mellett egy ismeretlen nő is utazott, aki szintén életét vesztette. Az asszonynak azonban szilárd meggyőződése, hogy a férje mindvégig hűséges volt hozzá, ezért magánnyomozásba kezd, hogy bebizonyítsa igazát. Még attól sem riad vissza, hogy másvalaki bőrébe bújjon, ami azonban eléggé váratlan következményekkel jár.

Nicci French - Killing ​Me Softly
Alice ​Loudon has everything: close friends, a loving boyfriend, a successful career. Then one day she meets a stranger while crossing the street and - impulsively - abandons her old, safe life for a passionate affair. It leads her into dark, dangerous territory . . . Adam Tallis teaches her things about herself she never knew. But as she learns more about her lover, she enters his world of risk and transgression - and begins to uncover a past filled with troubling secrets. Soon love and sexual obsession overwhelm her until they threaten everything: her safety, her sanity and, finally, her life.

Nicci French - The ​Memory Game
You ​remember an idyllic childhood. But your memory is deceitful. And possibly deadly... When a skeleton is unearthed in the Martello's garden, Jane Martello is shocked to learn it's that of her childhood friend, Natalie, who went missing twenty-five years ago. Encouraged by a therapist to recover lost memories, Jane hopes to find out what really took place when she was a child - and what happened to Natalie. But in learning the truth about her and Natalie's past, is Jane putting her own future at terrible risk?

Nicci French - Complicit
Bonnie ​Graham is standing in a room belonging to a friend. At her feet is a corpse, straddled in a spreading pool of blood. The questions are numerous: who is responsible for the dead body on the floor? What does she, Bonnie, have to do with it? And what is her next course of action? This opening premise gives some idea of just how quickly (and comprehensively) Nicci French is able to transfix the reader. It is this combination of a shocking situation and the ill-advised, often self-destructive actions of the duo's protagonists which the authors pull off in book after book; we may disapprove of what French’s characters do in their extreme situations, but it's impossible not to identify with them. Bonnie is a music teacher, rehearsing through a sweltering summer in London with a band that is scheduled to play at a wedding. Any pleasure the experience might have afforded is to evaporate as bitter internecine divisions within the band make themselves felt, and sexual involvements move in particularly murderous directions. This is typical Nicci French fare -- and admirers will meet need no other recommendation.

Nicci French - The ​Lying Room
In ​this thrilling standalone from the internationally bestselling author of the Frieda Klein series, a married woman’s affair with her boss spirals into a dangerous game of chess with the police when she discovers he’s been murdered and she clears the crime scene of all evidence. One little secret between a married woman, her lover, and a killer. It should have been just a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered. An escape from twenty years of routine marriage to her overworked husband, and from her increasingly distant children. But when Neve pays a morning-after visit to her lover, Saul, and finds him brutally murdered, their pied-à-terre still heady with her perfume, all the lies she has so painstakingly stitched together threaten to unravel. After scrubbing clean every trace of her existence from Saul’s life—and death—Neve believes she can return to normal, shaken but intact. But she can’t get out of her head the one tormenting question: what was she forgetting? An investigation into the slaying could provide the answer. It’s brought Detective Chief Inspector Alastair Hitching, and Neve’s worst fears, to her door. But with every new lie, every new misdirection to save herself, Neve descends further into the darkness of her betrayal—and into more danger than she ever imagined. Because Hitching isn’t the only one watching Neve. So is a determined killer who’s about to make the next terrifying move in a deadly affair….

Nicci French - Secret ​Smile
When ​Miranda Cotton gets home from work to find her new boyfriend, Brendan, reading her diary, she breaks off the relationship and throws him out of her flat. Getting Brendan out of her life, however, is not so easy. Two weeks later her sister Kerry calls in ecstacy. She is in love. She has a new boyfriend. He is called Brendan... So Brendan is back in Miranda's life - with a vengeance. But why has he done this? And what does he want from her? What began as an embarrassment soon becomes an infestation - and more frightening than her worst nightmares.

Nicci French - A ​kételynél is erősebb
Ellie ​Falkner világa megsemmisül. Greg, a férje autóbalesetben hal meg - méghozzá nem egyedül. Az anyósülésen megtalálják Milena Livingstone testét, a nőét, akiről Ellie még csak nem is hallott soha. Ellie azonban a környezetében élők suttogásai és gyanakvásai ellenére is vonakodik elhinni a nyilvánvaló következtetést: a férje a jelek szerint megcsalta. Talán a bánat, a gyász okozza, de Ellie úgy érzi, muszáj megtudnia, ki volt az a nő - és be kell bizonyítania, hogy Gregnek a látszat ellenére nem volt házasságon kívüli kapcsolata. Hamarosan rádöbben, hogy férje és az ismeretlen nő halála nem véletlen baleset volt. Vajon Ellie csak azért kapaszkodik annyira a gyilkosság vádjába, hogy segítségével elkerülje a fájó igazságot a házasságáról? Vagy még baljóslatúbb felismerés vár rá? Milyen titkok fekszenek mélyen elrejtve közös életükben és közös múltjukban.

Nicci French - Legdrágább ​szerelmem
Alice ​Loudon nem tudott ellenállni a kísértésnek, hogy egy szenvedélyes viszonyért feladja megszokott, biztonságos életét. Adam Tallis, a forróvérű és hősként ünnepelt hegymászó minden nő álma, ráadásul kalandjuk során Alice olyan dolgokat fedez fel önmagával kapcsolatban, melyekről korábban sejtelme sem volt. Csakhogy a vad vágyakhoz hasonlóan Adamnek is megvan a sötét oldala. És ez a sötét oldal hamarosan már nemcsak Alice józan eszét fenyegeti, hanem az életét is. Anglia legismertebb író házaspárjának bestsellere nemzetközi siker lett, most végre a hazai közönség is elolvashatja ezt a felejthetetlen és lebilincselően izgalmas regényt.

Nicci French - Fatal ​dimanche
Ce ​n'est pas une journée comme une autre pour Frieda Klein : le cadavre d'un homme censé la protéger gît sous le plancher de son salon à Londres. Peu après, sa nièce Chloë est kidnappée. Alors que la police prend enfin ses alertes au sérieux, le répit et la paix ne sont bientôt qu'un lointain souvenir pour Frieda et ses proches. Devenue à son insu l'objet d'une obsession macabre, la psychothérapeute comprend que rien n'arrêtera le meurtrier avant qu'il ait atteint son but : détruire sa vie et anéantir ceux qu'elle aime. Cependant, le temps est compté pour démasquer celui qui se cache derrière cette persécution savamment orchestrée. S'agit-il de Dean Reeve, son ennemi éternel ? Un autre criminel opère-t-il dans l'ombre ? La police est désemparée et les journalistes sont sans merci. Entre les fausses pistes et les vraies accusations, Frieda trouvera-t-elle le moyen de sauver sa peau ?

Nicci French - Medeplichtig
Bonnie ​staat in een appartement, tussen omvergegooide meubels en kapot gesmeten spullen. Ze heeft kneuzingen in haar hals en op de grond ligt het levenloze lichaam van een man. Bonnie kan het niet laten: ze knielt bij hem neer en raakt hem nog één keer aan voor ze het appartement verlaat. Zij heeft hem liefgehad. Even later belt ze vanuit een telefooncel een vriendin op, die ze vraagt haar te helpen de sporen uit te wissen en het lichaam te laten verdwijnen. Wat is er aan dit schokkende tafereel voorafgegaan? Wat is er in het appartement gebeurd en wie was erbij betrokken? Aanvankelijk lijkt het duidelijk, maar gaandeweg blijken de grenzen tussen schuld, onschuld en medeplichtigheid uiterst dun te zijn.

Nicci French - Höhenangst
Es ​trifft Alice wie ein Blitz aus heiterem Himmel. An einem Januarmorgen begegnet die junge Frau auf dem Weg zur Arbeit einem Mann mit auffallend blauen Augen – und nichts ist mehr, wie es war. In der Mittagspause wartet Adam schon auf Alice. Wie in Trance folgt sie ihm in ein Apartment in Soho und läßt sich auf eine leidenschaftliche Affäre ein, die sich schon bald zur Obsession steigert. Um mit Adam zusammenzusein, bricht Alice mit ihrer bürgerlichen Existenz. Daß sie nichts über sein bisheriges Leben weiß, stört sie nicht. Doch dann tauchen aus seiner Vergangenheit immer häufiger bedrohliche Schatten auf. Wer ist der Mann. dem sie mit jeder Faser ihres Körpers verfallen ist?

Nicci French - Day ​of the Dead
Now ​the final book in this extraordinary series is here. And it's an ending you'll never forget. A decade ago, psychologist Frieda Klein was sucked into the orbit of Dean Reeve -- a killer able to impersonate almost anyone, a man who can disappear without a trace, a psychopath obsessed with Frieda herself. In the years since, Frieda has worked with -- and sometimes against -- the London police in solving their most baffling cases. But now she's in hiding, driven to isolation by Reeve. When a series of murders announces his return, Frieda must emerge from the shadows to confront her nemesis. And it's a showdown she might not survive. This gripping cat-and-mouse thriller pits one of the most fascinating characters in contemporary fiction against an enemy like none other. Smart, sophisticated, and spellbinding, it's a novel to leave you breathless.

Nicci French - Tuesday's ​Gone
Nicci ​French, the bestselling author of What to do When Someone Dies and Losing You, returns with the second book in the gripping new series that began with Top Ten Bestseller Blue Monday. Fans of Peter James' Roy Grace series and Peter Robinson's DCI Banks series will love central character psychotherapist Frieda Klein, who is consulted on a grisly and seemingly unsolvable crime. 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 - The ​Red Room
Kit ​Quinn is a young woman who inhabits dangerous worlds: crime scenes, interrogation scenes, hospitals for the criminally insane. Horribly wounded in an attack by a suspect, 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 canal and the chief suspect is the man who wounded Kit. But Kit refuses to accept appearances and her obsessive search for the truth draws her into an underworld of the missing and the unloved which puts her at terrible risk.

Nicci French - Légszomj
Egy ​mindent elsöprő szerelem, amely olyan eufóriát és olyan légszomjat kelt, mint a Mount Everest meghódítása. A banális hasonlat minden eleme életre kel Nicci French történetében. Szenvedélyes szerelem az első látásra, végletekig felkorbácsolt érzések és érzékek: egy addig józan gondolkodású természettudósnő - Alice - feltétlen odaadása a titokzatos Adamnek, akiről sokáig csak annyit tudni, hogy egy tragédiával végződő Himalája-expedíció hőse és fantasztikus szerető. Kettejük kapcsolata sokáig csak arról szól, hogy mit lehet, mit szabad megtenni a szerelemben a másikkal. S aztán, ahogy a szerelmi történet fokozatosan vérfagyasztó krimibe fordul, már élet vagy halál a tét.