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Tess’ number one priority has always been her three-year-old daughter, Poppy. But splitting up with Poppy’s father, Jason, means that she cannot always be there to keep her daughter safe. When she finds a disturbing drawing, dark and menacing, among her daughter’s brightly coloured paintings, Tess is convinced that Poppy has witnessed something terrible. Something that her young mind is struggling to put into words. But no one will listen. It’s only a child’s drawing, isn’t it?

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.

The Safe House is a scintillating psychological thriller by the Top Ten bestselling author, Nicci French. You open your home and your heart to a victim. But your house is anything but safe.... Samantha Laschen is a doctor specialising in post-traumatic stress disorder. She's moved to the coast to escape her problems and to be alone with her young daughter. But now the police want her to take in Fiona Mackenzie, a girl whose parents have been savagely murdered.

Bonnie has spent the summer rehearsing with a band to play at a wedding. It was supposed to be fun, but the band members gradually find their friendships falling apart. What was meant to be fun turns deadly as lovers betray one another, passions turn murderous, and friendship itself becomes a crime. Everyone tells lies. But who is prepared to tell the truth to uncover a murderer?

When Liam unexpectedly turns up in Jude’s life after ten years of no contact, asking her for a favour, she just can’t say no. He was her first love, and even though she is now a successful doctor and about to get married, he will always be someone special to her. But after she does the favour, she is contacted by the police, informing her that Liam has been found dead, and suddenly she is caught up in a murder investigation. And she realises this one decision could cost her everything—even her life.

Nina Landry is supposed to be taking her two children on a Christmas holiday. But the road 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. Has Charlie run away? Or has something more sinister happened to her?

The abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Nicci French's Catch Me When I Fall is a blistering thriller from the masters of psychological suspense. You're a whirlwind. A success. You live life on the edge. But who'll catch you when you fall? Holly Krauss lives life in a cyclone - her...

It's devastating to hear your husband has died in an horrific car accident. But to learn he died with a mystery woman as his passenger is torment. Was Greg having an affair? Ellie clings to Greg's innocence, and her determination to prove it to the world means she must find out who the woman was and what she was doing in Greg's car.

When Liam unexpectedly turns up in Jude's life after ten years of no contact, asking her for a favour, she just can't say no. He was her first love, and even though she is now a successful doctor and about to get married, he will always be someone special to her.

Land of the Living is the intensely frightening audiobook from master thriller writers Nicci French. read by the actress Saskia Reeves. You wake in the dark, gagged and bound. A man visits you, feeds you. And tells you that he will kill you - just like all the rest. Abbie Devereaux doesn't know...

The stunning first book in a new series of psychological thrillers introducing an unforgettable London psychotherapist Frieda Klein is a solitary, incisive psychotherapist who spends her sleepless nights walking along the ancient rivers that have been forced underground in modern London. She...

Psychothriller, der in dunkle Lebenswelten führt. Frieda Kleins Ex-Lebensgefährte Sandy wird ermordet in der Themse aufgefunden. An seinem Handgelenk befindet sich ein Patientenarmband mit ihrem Namen. Frieda ist tief getroffen und gerät noch dazu bald ins Visier der Polizei. Doch bevor es zur Anklage kommt, hat Frieda Klein sich abgesetzt und ermittelt auf eigene Faust... Ein psychologischer Thriller, der Frieda in dunkle Lebenswelten führt und sie von ihrer verletzlichsten Seite zeigt.

Frieda Kleins Ex-Lebensgefährte Sandy wird ermordet in der Themse aufgefunden. An seinem Handgelenk befindet sich ein Patientenarmband mit ihrem Namen. Frieda ist tief getroffen und gerät noch dazu bald ins Visier der Polizei. Doch bevor es zur Anklage kommt, hat Frieda Klein sich abgesetzt und ermittelt auf eigene Faust.

“Fierce, fascinating and full of insight, Frieda Klein is irresistible.”—Val McDermid, bestselling author of Splinter the Silence The electrifying fourth book in the internationally bestselling Frieda Klein Mystery series Frieda Klein is uninterested in catching up on old times when her...

In Nicci’s French’s thrilling fifth book, London psychotherapist Frieda Klein herself becomes the prime suspect in a murder A bloated corpse turns up in the Thames, throat slashed, and the only clue is a hospital wristband reading Dr. F. Klein. Frieda is taken to see the body and realizes...

“Blue Monday leaves readers with the promise of intriguing tales to come” —People (four-star review) Internationally bestselling authors Nicci Gerard and Sean French, writing as Nicci French, have sold more than eight million copies of their books worldwide. But nothing they’ve written...

Sur une route de Londres, une voiture fonce à toute allure dans une vitrine de magasin. Mais le conducteur a été étranglé une semaine auparavant. Peu après, à Hampstead Heath, un feu fait des ravages et, au milieu des flammes, une autre victime est découverte. Alors que les premières feuilles d'automne tombent, un serial killer traumatise la ville, jouant avec la police. Tandis que le nombre des victimes augmente, l'enquête n'avance pas, le temps de comprendre qu'il ne s'agit pas d'un killer ordinaire.

La psychothérapeute Frieda Klein découvre le corps d'un homme sous le plancher de son appartement. Il est mort, une jonquille à la main, les deux oreilles tranchées. Frieda affirme qu'il s'agit d'un ancien policier, tué par Dean Reeve, responsable d'une série d'enlèvements et d'un meurtre. Le problème c'est que ce dernier est censé avoir mis à fin à ses jours il y a sept ans... Puis, Chloé, la nièce de Frieda est kidnappée. La presse se déchaîne, la police est dépassée... Frieda et ses proches sont plus que jamais en danger.

Lorsqu'une ancienne relation de travail lui demande d'établir le bilan psychiatrique de Hannah Docherty, Frieda Klein se retrouve dans une situation délicate. Elle ne peut refuser de rendre service à ce collègue influent, mais elle éprouve un choc en rencontrant la jeune femme. Incarcérée depuis treize ans dans une institution douteuse pour avoir assassiné sa famille, Hannah n'est plus que l'ombre d'elle-même. Convaincue de l'innocence de Hannah et malgré les injonctions de la police, la psychothérapeute rouvre le dossier de ce crime sordide et met au jour des incohérences.

Il y a des vendredis où rien ne va. Comme celui du Dr Frieda Klein, appelée à reconnaître un cadavre repêché dans la Tamise. Cadavre qui porte un bracelet à son nom et qui n'est autre que celui de son ex-petit ami, Sandy. Leur relation s'était terminée sur une rupture plutôt douloureuse. Puis il y avait eu cette violente altercation en pleine rue. Lorsque la police retrouve le portefeuille du défunt dans l'appartement de la jeune femme, tout bascule. Devenue malgré elle le suspect n° 1, Frieda ne voit qu'une seule issue : prendre la fuite et mener sa propre enquête.