“Blue Monday” by Nicci French

This book turned out to be a complete surprise, another ‘new to me’ author who is actually a husband and wife partnership with twelve other bestsellers to their credit.

Listed as a psychological thriller I did not know what to expect but three chapters into the story and I was hooked. Sometimes I can only manage to spend half an hour reading at once, but I had to keep spending more time as the action drew me ever onwards.

The abduction of a small boy begins to link to another abduction of a similar aged girl twenty years ago, this in turn linking to a client of the psychologist Frieda Klein and of course involving the police chiefs of the two periods of time. It is very cleverly presented.

This book is the first of a series featuring the character Frieda Klein and I shall certainly look out for more from Nicci French.

Jean