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2000s: How does anyone least of all a psychotherapist explain a body under the floorboards?
2000s: How does anyone least of all a psychotherapist explain a body under the floorboards?
Psychotherapist Frieda Klein’s home is her refuge until she returns to find it has become a disturbingly bloody crime scene. Beneath the floorboards the police have found the body of a man she had hired to help protect her.
The killer’s message is all too clear: you’re mine.
When those closest to Frieda begin to be targeted, the picture becomes more skewed: the patterns unclear.
Unless Frieda can find and stop whoever is threatening her friends and family, her love and loyalty could come at a truly fatal cost .
“It seemed strange to step from that scene of destruction and decay and crime into this space of order, where a pot of basil stood on the windowsill, a cat was delicately lapping water from a bowl on the floor and there were orange tulips, not yet fully opened, in an earthenware jug.
Yes, a body is found underneath the floorboards in her house in Saffron Mews. This is the seventh book in the series which started on a Monday and let’s just say by Sunday, Frieda’s metaphorical week is not getting any easier or any less violent.
This is her London
“The mills were located along the old Nickinger River. They were tanning works, They used to treat the hides with water and dog shit, Tons and tons of it.Can you imagine the smell?”
The river has been “dirtied, cleaned up, buried and forgotten”. “This was an area for things that London needed but didn’t want to look at or think about or smell. It’s a useful reminder’
Author/Guide: Nicci French Destination: London Departure Time: 2000s
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