Blue Monday), για να βυθιστούν στον κόσμο της Φρίντας και των υπόλοιπων χαρακτήρων, να τους αγαπήσει, να τους μάθει, να τους καταλάβει, να θυμώσει, να χαρεί. Να νιώσει όλων των ειδών τα συναισθήματα που μπορεί να σε κάνει να βιώσεις ένα -πραγματικά- καλό βιβλίο. A thought-provoking, fast-paced, well written thriller containing several twists and a surprise ending, this novel will appeal to fans Fetishised: Gillian Anderson’s portrayal of DSI Stella Gibson in The Fall is subject to some lingering camera work. Photograph: Steffan Hill/BBC/Artists Studio

Frieda is the lead investigator in this story, and gets little help at all from her inspector friend. She is the one pounding the pavement, doing interviews, and trying to gather evidence, even DNA evidence, which was pretty far fetched. I’m not here to be a comfort. (…) I’m going to tell you something. This won’t go away. This will never stop being a part of your life, a part of who you are. And that doesn’t have to be a bad thing.” Frieda’s personality does not lend itself well to this role and it becomes obvious to those who may be involved, what she is up to, which of course puts her in danger.Ik vind het enorm lastig om dit boek te beoordelen. Enkele jaren terug las ik deel 1 & 2. Toen was ik mega enthousiast. Ik denk niet dat deze serie achteruit is gegaan, ik denk alleen dat deze serie in mijn geheugen gewoon beter was. Misschien als ik gelijk deel 3 & 4 had gelezen, dat ik dan net zo enthousiast was geweest. Maar enkele jaren, en vele boeken, later, ben ik dat niet. Thirteen years ago eighteen-year-old Hannah Docherty was arrested for the brutal murder of her family. It was an open-shut case and Hannah's been incarcerated in a secure hospital ever since. Ik verwacht bij deze serie een heerlijke spannende thriller. Uiteindelijk is het voornamelijk een drama, met was spannende stukjes. Zoals ook in het vorige deel, gaat het grootste stuk over het leven van Frieda. Aangezien ik niet zo weg ben van Frieda, of van welk karakter dan ook ik dit boek, komt het helemaal niet dichtbij en vind ik het dus ook minder leuk.

Feel chills down your spine with the thrilling first novel in Nicci French's bestselling killer seriesNicci French is one of the few crime authors whose work I've read up to date. Thursday's Children is another quality instalment in the Frieda Klein series, sad in many different circumstances. Victims are chosen specifically because the perp knows no one will believe them. That the victims' own mothers don't believe their daughters goes to show that the perp was correct in that, and it says a lot about society. It's depressing. There's victim-blaming and victim-shaming, and it's hard to read. A body has been discovered in the most unlikely and horrifying of places: beneath the floorboards of Frieda Klein'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.