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Thursday's Child: A Frieda Klein Novel (4) (Frieda Klein Series) (English Edition) Formato Kindle
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Thursday's Child by Nicci French is the fourth novel in the bestselling Frieda Klein series, following Blue Monday, Tuesday's Gone and Waiting for Wednesday.
Two crimes, generations apart . . .
Twenty years ago teenager Frieda Klein was brutally attacked in her own home. No one believed her - not the police, not her mother, not her friends. She left town, trained as a psychologist and never went back.
Now an old classmate has shown up. She wants help with her daughter, who claims to have been attacked at home. An attack eerily similar to the one on Frieda. No one else believes the girl's story.
Now - with a school reunion in the offing - Frieda returns to the darkness she fled. To the small town which refused to help her and which hides a terrible secret. Because someone at the reunion knows what happened.
And they'll stop at nothing to prevent Frieda discovering the truth . . .
Praise for the Frieda Klein series:
'Nicci French's sophisticated, compassionate and gripping crime novels stand head and shoulders above the competition' Sophie Hannah
'Expert in the unguessable twist, supremely skilled at ratcheting up the tension' Easy Living
'French leads the field' Sunday Express
'Brilliantly crafted . . . masterly control of suspense' Daily Mirror
'Magnificent' Evening Standard
'A nerve-jangling and addictive read' Daily Express
- LinguaInglese
- EditorePenguin
- Data di pubblicazione10 aprile 2014
- Dimensioni file4435 KB
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“You'll ache for Frieda as she tears open old wounds and cheer when she finally shows signs of healing from her lacerations.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“This visceral read tackles a sensitive subject with empathy, anger, and grace. A skillfully woven plot and deftly drawn characters complement the central mystery, which engages and satisfies while developing the series arc.” —Publishers Weekly(starred review)
"Complex psychological suspense at its best." —Booklist (starred review)
“Fierce, fascinating and full of insight, Frieda Klein is irresistible.” —Val McDermid, bestselling author of Splinter the Silence
Praise for books in the Frieda Klein Mystery Series:
"Complex and flawed, Frieda Klein is a refreshingly human protagonist, an intriguing debut for a truly unique character."--Tami Hoag, bestselling author of Down the Darkest Road
"A neat puzzle with a satisfying resolution and a terrific twist at the end."--The New York Times Book Review
"Fast-paced and spooky...it leaves readers with the promise of intriguing tales to come."--People (starred review)
"Skillfully balances on a barely-there thread of a tightrope, straddling police procedural-psychological suspense territory while keeping its protagonist utterly human, flaws and all."--The Boston Globe --Questo testo si riferisce alla paperback edizione.
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- ASIN : B00G4RH0UG
- Editore : Penguin; 1° edizione (10 aprile 2014)
- Lingua : Inglese
- Dimensioni file : 4435 KB
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- Lunghezza stampa : 514 pagine
- Posizione nella classifica Bestseller di Amazon: n. 228,882 in Kindle Store (Visualizza i Top 100 nella categoria Kindle Store)
- n. 7,643 in Gialli e thriller (in inglese)
- n. 8,322 in Thriller con suspense
- n. 10,219 in Gialli e Thriller in lingua straniera
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An old school 'friend' - actually they didn't like each other much - tracks Frieda down and asks her to help her daughter. The daughter claims to have been raped and the circumstances bring back terrible memories from Frieda's youth. Is it possible that the same man who attacked Frieda more than 20 years earlier is still attacking young women? Frieda heads back to Braxton, the small town where she grew up, to try to work out who attacked her all those years before.
At times I found the first three books got a bit confusing. By the time you get to Thursday, you'll most likely be comfortable with the extensive cast of support characters. My favourite - and I think most readers' favourite - is Josef, the Ukrainian builder who'll drop anything at a moment's notice to help his friend Frieda. Niece Chloe, friend Sasha, ex boyfriend Sasha (that gets complicated) and Frieda's colleague and therapist Reuben all play their part to anchor her in the present as she dabbles dangerously in her past. And of course, lurking in the background, there's always Dean, her guardian angel/demon who just won't lie down and play dead.
I would say I enjoyed this the most of the four Frieda Kleins and even though less 'happens', I felt I got to know our Frieda much more through this one. I'm looking forward to the next one.


Negatives:
- the protagonist was whiny, self-obsessed and unlikeable. I have no idea why she had any friends and I am not surprised the inhabitants of her old hometown couldn't wait to be rid of her. I have no idea why she dumped her boyfriend or whatever he was, with no explanation whatsoever. He had every right to be furious.
- the other characters weren't developed. Presumably some of them were recurring characters from the previous books which I haven't read, but none of them played any meaningful part in the story other than jumping at Frieda's every command whenever she wanted something.
- the build-up was very slow with far too much time spent describing her journeys, her meals and conversations with her friends that had nothing to do with the plot.
- after the slow build-up, the identity of the killer came suddenly out of nowhere, and was little more than a stab in the dark on Frieda's part that turned out to be correct. The reader wasn't informed how she came to the conclusion until some time later.
I would recommend not reading this unless you've read the others first, since it relies on them quite heavily and apparently contains spoilers for their plots. I won't be reading them myself as I wasn't impressed by this offering.

I am a big fan of books that successfully link past actions to the present day and the Nicci French duo execute this storyline with aplomb. Frieda returns to the place where she grew up, visits her mother who she hasn’t spoken to for many years and revisits a wrong inflicted upon her when she was a mere schoolgirl. A crime that her mother didn’t believe and in an exact parallel once Becky is persuaded to disclose the truth to her mother, she isn’t believed either.
The authors also paint a picture of small town life perfectly with many of Frieda’s classmates still living in Braxton, the very town she disappeared from keeping no links with anyone, the trouble is with Frieda’s high profile in helping the police, they know far more about how the intervening years have treated her, than she does them. I loved the way old teenage friendships awkwardly jarred with the present twenty-three years on. The old allegiances still in place in some ways but for others time had broken the bonds as those teenage dreams had foundered in the harsh reality of life. When Frieda turns up interrogating them on where they were on the night when she was sixteen, and her house was broken into, she receives mixed reactions, after all they were all at the biggest event to hit Braxton, the band Thursday’s Children held a concert. But Frieda didn’t go, having rowed with her boyfriend she was the only teenager alone that night, or was she?
One of the reasons I love these books so much is the sheer variety of secondary characters and all the old favourites appear in this book too; Josef the builder with the kindest heart on the planet, Chloe Frieda’s niece who is edging slowly towards adulthood although still incredibly reliant on her aunt, Sasha a former patient, DCI Karlsson who has requested her help so often in the past and Reuben her mentor. Although these old favourites feature, their own stories complement rather than take over the main plot so that the reader can focus on the important elements to the story without becoming too distracted.
Due to the exploration of her own past, out of all the books in this series, this one comes closest to explaining why Frieda has such a spiky character, always keen to do the right thing, she has clearly buried a lot of pain from a young age but courageously battled on to help others. In main, apart from the crime this is due to her far more hateful mother, a woman who was a doctor but is now an embittered dying woman. Juliet Klein uttered words that had the power to chill me, her views outrageous, but sadly not as uncommon as we would like to believe although perhaps the world isn’t peopled by quite so many delinquent mothers as are scattered throughout this book!
I think this may be my favourite of the books in this series so far, it isn’t fast paced and full of action but a more thoughtful, and I would say truthful look at this particular crime, but not one I would recommend without reading the other’s first. Although the story itself would stand alone and it can’t be faulted on the number of suspects for this reader to wrongly convict, the way the secondary characters are linked to Frieda, particularly the most shadowy one of all, are threaded throughout the series a lot of the background needed to understand them would be lost.
