Sunday Silence (Frieda Klein Series #7)

by Nicci French

Overview

It started with Monday. But it doesn't end with Sunday.

Read Sunday Silence, the new novel in the series that LOUISE PENNY calls "fabulous, unsettling, and riveting" — and brace yourself for the breathtaking series finale in summer 2018.

Lover of London, gifted psychologist, frequent police consultant — Frieda Klein is many things. And now she's a person of interest in a murder case. A body has been discovered in the most unlikely and horrifying of places: beneath the floorboards of Frieda's house.

The corpse is only months old, but the chief suspect appears to have died more than seven years ago. Except as Frieda knows all too well, he's alive and well and living in secret. And it seems he's inspired a copycat...

As the days pass and the body count rises, Frieda finds herself caught in a fatal tug-of-war between two killers: one who won't let her go, and another who can't let her live. 

Crackling with suspense, packed with emotion, Sunday Silence is a psychological thriller perfect for fans of Elizabeth George and Paula Hawkins.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780594108511
Publisher:	HarperCollins US
Publication date:	01/09/2018
Series:	Frieda Klein Series , #7
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Nicci French is the pseudonym of English wife-and-husband team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. Their acclaimed novels of psychological suspense have sold more than sixteen million copies around the world.

Editorial Reviews

11/27/2017
In French’s disappointing seventh thriller starring London psychotherapist Frieda Klein (after 2017’s Dark Saturday), Frieda discovers the decomposing corpse of Bruce Stringer, an ex-policeman she hired to help her search for murderer Dean Reeve, under the floorboards of her home. Though the police are certain that Reeve took his own life seven years earlier, Frieda is convinced that he still lives and is adding to his body count. Her belief that Reeve killed her investigator is buttressed when another body surfaces—that of an electrician who gave Stringer information about Reeve. Frieda sets aside her practice to investigate. Six months later, the police have made no progress, and Frieda resumes seeing patients. Then her niece is abducted and other people she knows are attacked, leading the therapist to believe that Reeve has inspired another psychopath. French, the husband-wife writing team of Sean French and Nicci Gerard, offers nothing new to anyone who’s read a copycat serial killer novel before. Agent: Joy Harris, Joy Harris Literary Agency. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

Fabulous, unsettling, and riveting.” — Louise Penny

“Complex...intriguing...truly unique.” — Tami Hoag

“Gripping.... In the rich vein of Kate Atkinson.” — Joseph Finder

“Unforgettable. Psychological dynamite.” — Alan Bradley

“Fans of Nicci French... will ask for one thing after reading this book: more... Suspense does not get better than this.” — Suspense Magazine

“A thoroughly entertaining and absolutely riveting read from cover to cover, Sunday Silence showcases Nicci French (the pseudonym of the English wife and husband writing team of Nicci Gerrard and Sean French) as a master of the psychological suspense genre.” — Wisconsin Bookwatch

From the Publisher

Gripping.... In the rich vein of Kate Atkinson.

Joseph Finder

Fans of Nicci French... will ask for one thing after reading this book: more... Suspense does not get better than this.

Suspense Magazine

Complex...intriguing...truly unique.

Tami Hoag

A thoroughly entertaining and absolutely riveting read from cover to cover, Sunday Silence showcases Nicci French (the pseudonym of the English wife and husband writing team of Nicci Gerrard and Sean French) as a master of the psychological suspense genre.

Wisconsin Bookwatch

Fabulous, unsettling, and riveting.

Louise Penny

Unforgettable. Psychological dynamite.

Alan Bradley

2017-11-28
French polishes off the week of titles (Dark Saturday, 2017, etc.), though evidently not the series, in which London psychotherapist Frieda Klein tangles with a series of killers who all have ties of one sort or another to the same evil genius.Great news for Frieda: after ages of doubting her increasingly desperate allegations that preternaturally slippery Dean Reeve, reported a suicide seven years ago, is still alive, DCI Malcolm Karlsson is finally ready to reconsider. The reason why is not such great news: Frieda's Ukrainian builder friend, Josef Morozov, has found the rotting corpse of ex-copper Bruce Stringer, who'd been helping her hunt for Reeve, under the floorboards of her own house. And Stringer's murder seems to be only the first of a rapid-fire series of new outrages directed specifically against people close to Frieda. In short order, Daniel Glasher, an electrician who passed information about Reeve on to Stringer, is found dead shortly after sending Frieda a threatening note; her niece, Chloë Klein, is kidnapped, drugged, and photographed in a humiliatingly compromising position; Reuben McGill, the analyst who trained her, is savagely attacked in his own home; and Josef's son Alexei, newly arrived from Ukraine, is snatched from a crowded market in broad daylight. Frieda, now reduced to hiring a private detective to check on the bona fides of her friends' recent acquaintances and her own newest patients, wonders where it will end—and whether this latest wave of violence is the work of Dean Reeve or of a monstrously resourceful copycat.The biggest surprise here is not whodunit but just when French will reveal the truth. But fans caught up in the relentless intensity of the sorely tried heroine's latest travails will be too busy worrying about other, more dangerous problems to notice.

Kirkus Reviews