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It was an open-and-shut case when 18-year-old Hannah Docherty was arrested for the brutal murder of her family; she's been incarcerated ever since. When psychotherapist Frieda Klein is asked to assess Hannah, she reluctantly agrees. What she finds horrifies her.... Frieda is haunted by the thought that Hannah might be as much of a victim as her family. Frieda soon begins to realise that she's up against someone who'll go to any lengths to protect themselves....

She’s a murderer. Everyone knows she killed Stuart Rees - why else would his dead body be found in her shed? So now Tabitha is in prison, awaiting trial. Coming back to the remote coastal village where she grew up was a mistake. She didn’t fit in then, and she doesn’t fit in now. That day is such a blur, she can’t remember clearly what happened. There is something she is missing, something important. She only knows one thing.

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.

They say your memory can't be trusted. They say your story doesn't check out. They say you were never blindfolded...starved...or imprisoned in a filthy shed like an animal. But you know it happened. And you know it can happen again. This masterful novel of brilliantly drawn characters and harrowing suspense will shock you at every turn and force you to walk the fine line between madness and fear. Nicci French is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of journalists Nicci Gerrard and Sean French.

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.

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?

The Red Room is a terrifying and gripping psychological thriller from the Top Ten bestselling author, Nicci French. Enter the Red Room - where nightmares become reality. He almost took your life. Now his is in your hands… After psychologist Kit Quinn is brutally attacked by a prisoner, she is determined to get straight back to work. When the police want her help in linking the man who attacked her to a series of murders, she refuses to simply accept the obvious.

She doesn't know where she is nor who it is feeding her, talking to her, threatening to kill her. Yet Abbie has courage and, above all, hope. She escapes her captor and runs back into the light. But the real world, the safe one, isn't as she remembers it. There are days missing before she disappeared; days when she quit her job and left her boyfriend, did things she can't explain to the police, her friends, or even herself.

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.

C'était la famille parfaite... mais un meurtre va tout ébranler. Quand elle rentre de l'école, ce mercredi-là, Dora Lennox trouve une maison en pagaille, des biscuits brûlés et un cadavre, celui de sa mère, sauvagement assassinée. Épouse et mère aimée, aide-soignante charitable, voisine exemplaire : pour l'inspecteur Karlsson, Ruth Lennox avait pourtant tout de la femme sans histoire - jusqu'à ce que les langues se délient. Et, face à des proches meurtris, qui mieux que la psychothérapeute Frieda Klein pour déceler les noirs secrets de l'âme ?

Beneath the Skin is a gripping psychological thriller by the Top Ten bestselling author, Nicci French. Zoe, Jennifer and Nadia are three women with nothing in common. Except for the man who wants to kill them. He sends them terrifying letters, full of the intimate details of their lives - and promises that he will bring those lives to a violent, horrible end.

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?

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.

Holly Krauss lives life in a whirlwind; her husband Charlie, her business partner Meg, and her colleagues at KS Associates are left breathless by her energy. But sometimes her wild behaviour leads to reckless mistakes. Mistakes which soon leave her life spiralling out of control.

Secret Smile is a gripping psychological thriller from the top-ten best-selling author Nicci French. You have an affair. You finish it. You think it's over. You're dead wrong.... Miranda Cotton thinks she's put boyfriend Brendan out of her life for good. But two weeks later, he's intimately involved with her sister. Soon what began as an embarrassment becomes threatening - then even more terrifying than a girl's worst nightmare.

Als der fünfjährige Matthew Faraday verschwindet, geht ein Aufschrei durch England...

Il y a vingt-trois ans, Frieda quittait Braxton sans un regard en arrière. Devenue psychothérapeute, elle pensait avoir tiré un trait définitif sur le traumatisme de sa jeunesse. Pourtant, les révélations de Becky, sa nouvelle patiente, vont rouvrir en grand les portes de son passé. Comme Frieda, Becky est une adolescente de Braxton fragile et incomprise. Comme Frieda, la jeune fille a perdu son innocence trop tôt, trop vite, dans d'étranges circonstances. Et comme Frieda, elle n'a trouvé personne pour croire à son histoire.