Nicci French - Frieda Klein series - 8 books

The Books in order:


1) Blue Monday.

2) Tuesday's gone.

3) Waiting for Wednesday.

4) Thursday's Children.

5) Friday on My Mind.

6) Saturday Requiem.

7) Sunday Morning Coming Down.

8) The Day of the Dead.



About the Authors:


Husband-and-wife writing partners Nicci Gerrard and Sean French had already

written a dozen standalone mystery novels under the pseudonym Nicci French

when, in 2011, they created Dr. Frieda Klein, a character so complex that she

demanded a series of her own. Five years later the successful series, with

each entry named for a day of the week, continues with its fifth title, Friday

on My Mind (Penguin Books, Oct.), in which Frieda is accused of murder after

the body of her ex-boyfriend turns up in the River Thames.



French, who shares a home outside of London with Gerrard (they married in

1990), says: "We always wrote standalone books with female central characters.

They were sort of ordinary people who wouldn’t be constantly involved in

solving crimes. But Frieda, a psychotherapist, came to visit us in a way."

French and Gerrard had an idea about a woman who doesn’t want to be a

detective but who is cursed with the gift of being very good at discovering

others’ secrets and following clues that ultimately solve a range of brutal

crimes.



"The therapist discovers the solution to someone’s problems much in the way a

detective works at following clues," French says. "Frieda doesn’t believe you

can solve the outside crimes of the world unless you address the psychological

issues inside people."



At the beginning of the series, Frieda is adept at guarding her own secrets.

Gradually, though, Gerrard and French reveal the inner life of this prickly,

difficult, but brilliant woman, one layer at a time. "We needed a series,

because Frieda wouldn’t disclose herself in one book," French says. "And we

named the books after days of the week because we want to see the passing of

time and Frieda’s growth as a person." All the characters in the series change

along with her from book to book and are marked by what they’ve gone through

as participants in Frieda’s sleuthing.


(sourced from 'publishersweekly')




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