bookshelves: published-2011, mystery-thriller, autumn-2015, tbr-busting-2015, first-in-series, series, nutty-nuut, e-book, eye-scorcher Read from September 01 to 06, 2015 nutty nuutDescription: Monday, the lowest point of the week. A day of dark impulses. A day to snatch a child from the street...
I'm not sure what to say about Blue Monday, it's one of those books that just works, at least for me. The heroine, Dr Frieda Klein, is not a particularly sympathetic woman. She seems rather closed in, distant from the other characters in the book and distant from the reader. But the book doesn't beg...
This falls into the sub-genre of psychological mystery, in which a case from some time ago (a twenty-two-year-old kidnapping) continues to affect the lives of various people. Here's why I love it: the female therapist doesn't need saving and isn't constantly in danger just from being female, on the ...
This had such a promising start that I really thought that this would be the next series that I would fall in love with. Unfortunately this fell quite short of that. I could never really find myself interested in following the main character Freida. She just felt too cold to me. We never really get ...
Blue Monday is the first novel in the Frieda Klein series by author Nicci French. A young boy has been kidnapped and Freida thinks nothing of it until she is in a consultation with a patient who confesses to having dreams that match the abduction and also a case from twenty years ago. Initially th...
not very good. like a child writing the story of a shit TV drama for her school project. Twist so obvious it was embarrassing. Unconvincing, annoying therapist- unconvincing policeman.. Ridiculous perp. What a waste of time. Don't bother with this.
Hinter Nicci French verbirgt sich das Autorenehepaar Nicci Gerard und Sean French. Blauer Montag ist der Auftakt zu einer 8-teiligen Serie um die Ă„rztin und Therapeutin Frieda Klein. Mir war das Buch schon vor einiger Zeit ins Auge gefallen und als es nun bei meiner Onleihe im Bestand war, habe ich ...
This is an amazingly gripping psychological crime thriller; but only from about half way through. Up until that point it just plodded along, and actually dragged along for a while. There was just too much background building and not enough tension building. Once it got going though, it really took o...
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