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Dinsdag is voorbij (Frieda Klein #2)

by Nicci French, Irving Pardoen (Translator)

3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 · rating details · 721 ratings · 142 reviews

In een vervallen huis in Oost-Londen wordt het opgezwollen, met vliegen bedekte lijk van een man aangetroffen, rechtop in een leunstoel. Het huis is van Michelle Doyce, een kwetsbare vrouw met ernstige psychische problemen. Onderzoek toont aan dat de man pas na zijn dood naar het huis is overgebracht. De enige informant is Michelle, maar haar uitspraken stellen de recherch...more

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Published May 23rd 2012 by Anthos

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Apr 03, 2013 Christina (A Reader of Fictions) rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Ordinarily, I'm not much for mystery novels, and I read them only infrequently, since otherwise I get really bored with the predictable plotting, though it's not like romance stories are any less predictable and I still read those by the dozens. It may not make much logical sense, but this is how I feel. Anyway, I accepted a review request for the first book in this series, Blue Monday, sort of on a whim, and was surprised to find how much I enjoyed it. Tuesday's Gone steps up the tension of the...more Ordinarily, I'm not much for mystery novels, and I read them only infrequently, since otherwise I get really bored with the predictable plotting, though it's not like romance stories are any less predictable and I still read those by the dozens. It may not make much logical sense, but this is how I feel. Anyway, I accepted a review request for the first book in this series, Blue Monday, sort of on a whim, and was surprised to find how much I enjoyed it. Tuesday's Gone steps up the tension of the Frieda Klein series and proves a very satisfying followup.

One of the things I really liked about Blue Monday was Frieda Klein herself, and she's still awesome. Frieda's so perceptive and a bit icy on the outside. She's a great listener but loathes talking about herself, or anything getting personal. Personal relationships are hard for her, and she keeps people at a distance. What I find so delightful about Frieda is that she's not a stereotypical woman; she can't be put into a box.

The mystery elements are well done, and several plot twists actually caught me completely off guard. The murder mystery is a seriously tangled web, but French pulls them together admirably. On top of the mystery arc for this installment, the big bad of the series as a whole is revealed, a person from Frieda's past. While there's not a whole lot of development with the larger arc, oh my goodness is it creepy, and I'm excited for the direction the series is headed, using the plot structure from the first two seasons of Veronica Mars, with the full series overarching plot and individual mysteries per volume. This works so well, because it keeps the reader's interest engaged in the larger story and makes reading them as standalones less desirable.

The one thing I found odd was that Frieda, who's consulting with the police in this murder investigation, goes around telling freaking EVERYONE about the work she's doing. I mean, come on, Frieda! She's smart enough to know better than that. Sure, sometimes she's doing so to feel people out, but she also tells some friends, and that's just not done, or at least I don't think it is. Especially since Frieda's generally so resistant to sharing information, I found this out of place.

I'm going to keep this short, since there's only so much to be said about mysteries without spoiling the plot. Basically, if you like mysteries, check out the Frieda Klein series, because it's well done, has a strong heroine, and features intriguing plot twists.(less)

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Jun 12, 2013 Sandie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

When a social worker goes on a routine home visit to check on a client, she receives a massive shock. The client, Michelle Doyle, offers her tea and shows her to the sitting room where the social worker discovers the body of a man, obviously dead for a while. Michelle seems to think nothing is wrong.

Put into a hospital, the police are baffled about Michelle. The man was murdered. Did Michelle do that, or was this body just another symptom of the obvious hoarding disorder Michelle's home gives e...more

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Jun 03, 2013 Helen Laycock rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: thriller

For some time I have been reading mediocre thrillers which are rather like watery soup, so it was a refreshing change to get my teeth again into something produced by the Nicci French duo. Not a word is wasted.

If any writer wants to know how to create an opening chapter, then look no further. There is no choice. You HAVE to read on. I flew through this book. Over and over, I promised myself 'just one more chapter', but one glance at the next, and I was off again.

I had read Blue Monday - a long t...more

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May 28, 2013 Melaszka rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book exemplifies both everything I love and everything I hate about the writing of Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. They're brilliant at suspense - lots of surprising twisty twists that grip you from the start and keep you turning the pages. What they're less good at is construction and methodical cluing - the villains in this case were both blatantly obvious from the weirdness of their behaviour from the moment they appeared onpage and unsatisfyingly underwritten and undermotivated. It's alm...more

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May 14, 2013 Kandice rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: books-read-in-2013, mystery

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Apr 17, 2013 Mike Gabor rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The second book in the Freida Klien series. The story opens with a social worker visiting the flat of one of her mentally ill patients, Michelle Doyce. All appears well at first but then when Michelle mentions she is entertaining someone and the social worker looks in on the guest the mystery begins. It seems as though Michelle has been serving tea and buns to a dead man for the last few days. He's sitting propped up on the couch, completely naked and his middle finger is missing. With Michelle...more

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Apr 17, 2013 Jill rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is the second book in the detective/psychological thriller series featuring psychotherapist Dr. Frieda Klein, who is the occasional collaborator of London Detective Chief Inspector Malcolm Karlsson. There is no romantic involvement between the two, although not for want of enthusiasm among readers for the match-up.

When the story opens, a social worker discovers a mentally ill woman tending to a decaying corpse. The ill woman doesn’t seem to get that the man is dead, and so she isn’t the bes...more This is the second book in the detective/psychological thriller series featuring psychotherapist Dr. Frieda Klein, who is the occasional collaborator of London Detective Chief Inspector Malcolm Karlsson. There is no romantic involvement between the two, although not for want of enthusiasm among readers for the match-up.

When the story opens, a social worker discovers a mentally ill woman tending to a decaying corpse. The ill woman doesn’t seem to get that the man is dead, and so she isn’t the best witness to any possible crime that was committed. This sets up the need for Inspector Karlsson to call in Frieda.

As the police try to discover the identity of the corpse, and why and how he ended up dead, there are two other stories running on the side, which seemingly are not connected.

Meanwhile, Frieda continues to risk her life and limb so she can find out about all these other lives, while simultaneously avoiding investigation (by herself or others) into her own. The story ends with a hint that the crimes of “Monday” and “Tuesday” are not yet resolved.

Discussion: The series has a psychological/thriller aspect to it, so it is a bit dark and perverse. A scary character from the first book is part of the second as well, although this didn’t strike me as realistic.

There is something else about the series that is a bit odd. The characters don’t like to expose their interior lives, and because the narrator is not an omniscient one, I often feel as if I don’t really “know” the main protagonists. This keeps me at an emotional distance from them, and prevents me from caring about them as much as I might otherwise do. Somewhat humorously in a meta sense, the dead victim in this book is a con man whose identity is a mystery. How appropriate.

The books in this series can be read independently, although Tuesday’s Gone definitely is closely related to Blue Monday, and the second book would be better understood if one approached the series from the beginning. (A series of eight books featuring Dr. Klein are planned.)

Note: Nicci French is the pseudonym for the writing team of husband and wife Nicci Gerrard and Sean French.
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Mar 29, 2013 Jodi rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The husband and wife team Nicci French have written a smashing follow up to “Blue Monday.”

Along with psychotherapist Frieda Klein many of the key players from Blue Monday are back and references to the book are contained throughout. While the book reads well as a stand-alone I feel I should have read the first installment as to have become more accustomed to the characters, mostly Frieda as she is an obviously multi layered and haunted character. The chapters are short and go between the several...more

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Mar 05, 2013 Jen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery

Tuesday's Gone was an ARC from Net Galley and the Penguin Group and will be released on April 4.
ISBN-13: 978-0670025671

I read it before reading Blue Monday and actually consider Tuesday's Gone the better novel, although I'd still recommend reading them in order for a number of reasons including back stories.

In Tuesday's Gone the authors seem to have become better acquainted with their protagonist, more comfortable with who she is and how she thinks, and have further developed some of the secon...more

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Feb 25, 2013 Giota Papadimakopoulou rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Περίμενα με μεγάλη ανυπομονησία το νέο βιβλίο της Nicci French, ένα καλλιτεχνικό ψευδώνυμο πίσω από το οποίο βρίσκεται το συγγραφικό, και όχι μόνο, ζεύγος, Nicci Gerrard και Sean French, και είμαι βεβαία πως όσοι έχετε διαβάσει το "Blue Monday", συμμερίζεστε το πάθος μου για την πένα τους/της. Και αυτό γιατί, τόσο το "Blue Monday", όσο και το νέο βιβλίο των περιπετειών της ψυχοθεραπεύτριας Φρίντα Κλάιν με τίτλο, "Tuesday's Gone", δεν είναι ένα ακόμα απλό, κοινότυπο αστυνομικό μυθιστόρημα αλλά, κ...more Περίμενα με μεγάλη ανυπομονησία το νέο βιβλίο της Nicci French, ένα καλλιτεχνικό ψευδώνυμο πίσω από το οποίο βρίσκεται το συγγραφικό, και όχι μόνο, ζεύγος, Nicci Gerrard και Sean French, και είμαι βεβαία πως όσοι έχετε διαβάσει το "Blue Monday", συμμερίζεστε το πάθος μου για την πένα τους/της. Και αυτό γιατί, τόσο το "Blue Monday", όσο και το νέο βιβλίο των περιπετειών της ψυχοθεραπεύτριας Φρίντα Κλάιν με τίτλο, "Tuesday's Gone", δεν είναι ένα ακόμα απλό, κοινότυπο αστυνομικό μυθιστόρημα αλλά, κάτι περισσότερο. Μια αστυνομική περιπέτεια που σκοπό της δεν είναι απλά η επίλυση ενός γρίφου αλλά, η εξερεύνηση των βαθύτερων άδυτων της ανθρώπινης ψυχολογίας και ψυχοσύνθεσης που οδηγούν, με συνδυασμένες αποφάσεις, σε ένα αποτέλεσμα που πολλές φορές, δεν έχει επιστροφή και δεν μπορεί να οδηγήσει πουθενά αλλού παρά, στην απόλυτη καταστροφή, όπως κι αν αυτή εκφράζεται.

Μια κοινωνική λειτουργός, στα πλαίσια των καθημερινών της εργασιών, επισκέπτεται μια ψυχικά διαταραγμένη γυναίκα προκειμένου να διαπιστώσει το επίπεδο ζωής της. Μπαίνοντας στο σπίτι της, έρχεται αντιμέτωπη με ένα φρικιαστικό θέαμα που δεν περίμενε. Στο σαλόνι του σπιτιού βρίσκεται το πτώμα ενός άντρα, αγνώστων στοιχείων, σε προχωρημένη σήψη. Τα στοιχεία για την υπόθεση είναι πολύ λίγα και πολύ συγκεχυμένα και η ψυχική κατάσταση της γυναίκας στο σπίτι της οποίας βρέθηκε το πτώμα, δεν διευκολύνει καθόλου το έργο της αστυνομίας. Έτσι, για μια ακόμα φορά, ο επιθεωρητής Κάρλσον αναγκάζεται να ζητήσει τη βοήθεια της ψυχοθεραπεύτριας Φρίντα Κλάιν, σε μια προσπάθεια να ξεκλειδώσουν το μυαλό της διαταραγμένης γυναίκας και να ανακαλύψουν ποιος ήταν αυτός ο άντρας και τι πραγματικά συνέβη. Και ενώ η αστυνομία στέλνει τη γυναίκα σε ψυχιατρικό ίδρυμα και κλείνει τον φάκελο της υπόθεσης, θεωρώντας την ένοχη, η Φρίντα είναι πεπεισμένη πως ο δολοφόνος κυκλοφορεί ελεύθερος και αποφασίζει να ερευνήσει περαιτέρω την υπόθεση, συλλέγοντας στοιχεία που θα οδηγήσουν στον πραγματικό δράστη και τα πράγματα, περιπλέκονται περισσότερο απ' όσο είχαν αρχικά φανταστεί.

Αν κάτι λατρεύω στα βιβλία της Nicci French, είναι το γεγονός ότι είναι πολυεπίπεδα και πολυδιάστατα. Σε αντίθεση με τα περισσότερα αστυνομικά μυθιστορήματα, δεν επικεντρώνονται απλά και μόνο στην επίλυση ενός γρίφου που θα μας οδηγήσει σταδιακά στον ένοχο και την αποκάλυψη της αλήθειας αλλά, αποτελούνται από μια σειρά γρίφων και μυστηρίων που ζητάνε απαντήσεις, όχι μόνο για την εξέλιξη της δράσης της ίδιας της ιστορίας αλλά, που στοχεύουν στην εμβάθυνση της ανθρώπινης συμπεριφοράς. Με πιο απλά λόγια, μας καλούν να εισχωρήσουμε στο άδυτο της ανθρώπινης ψυχοσύνθεσης προσπαθώντας να κατανοήσουμε τους λόγους και τα κίνητρα, τις καλά κρυμμένες εμμονές, τις ψυχολογικές παθήσεις που μετουσιώνονται σε αρρωστημένες ιδέες, ή ακόμα και στα πάθη και τις θεωρητικές μας ανάγκες που πρέπει οπωσδήποτε και με κάθε μέσο ή κόστος να υλοποιηθούν, να αποκτήσουν υπόσταση και έπειτα από αυτό, να συγκαλυφθούν με επιδεξιότητα, αν αυτό καθίσταται δυνατόν.

Σε αντίθεση με το πρώτο βιβλίο της σειράς, τα πράγματα είναι ξεκάθαρα από την αρχή. Αυτό δεν έχει να κάνει με το ότι το "Blue Monday" είναι κατώτερο, γιατί δεν είναι, αλλά με το γεγονός ότι πλέον γνωρίζουμε, τόσο την Φρίντα Κλάιν και τον τρόπο που σκέφτεται, διενεργεί και πράττει, όσο και την φιλοσοφία της γύρω από την ανθρώπινη ύπαρξη και τον τρόπο δράσης της. Αυτή τη φορά, γνωρίζουμε τι να περιμένουμε και απλώς ακολουθούμε την Φρίντα και τους συνεργάτες της σε μια νέα περιπέτεια που σε κάθε στροφή της, μας περιμένει και μια καινούργια έκπληξη. Ένα ακόμα στοιχείο που έρχεται να προστεθεί στο παζλ και που αντί να οδηγεί στην λύση, μας κάνει να προβληματιζόμαστε όλο και περισσότερο, θέλοντας απεγνωσμένα να ανακαλύψουμε την αλήθεια, η οποία δεν φανερώνεται παρά μόλις ένα κεφάλαιο πριν την τελική αποκάλυψη την οποία, δεν συνοδεύει η νηνεμία αλλά, μια μεγάλη, πολύ μεγάλη ανατροπή. Επιπλέον, παρά το γεγονός ότι τα βιβλία της σειράς αποτελούν αυτόνομες ιστορίες, έχει βρεθεί ένας τρόπος άτυπης σύνδεσης μεταξύ τους που όχι μόνο είναι ευφυής αλλά μας κάνει να θέλουμε να διαβάσουμε την συνέχεια και μάλιστα, όσο το δυνατόν πιο άμεσα.

Με άρτια και μεστή γραφή, καλοστημένη πλοκή, άψογα σκιαγραφημένους χαρακτήρες και μια πρωταγωνίστρια που δεν μπορείς να μην λατρέψεις για το θάρρος και την ευστροφία της, το "Tuesday's Gone" είναι ένα βιβλίο που θα σας κατακτήσει και θα σας κάνει να ζητάτε από την Φρίντα να συνεχίσει να χώνει τη μύτη της, ακόμα κι εκεί που δεν πρέπει και να ταυτιζόμαστε μαζί της. Ένα ψυχογράφημα με αστυνομικές προεκτάσεις που καθηλώνει και προβληματίζει σε πολλά επίπεδα, ένα χρονικό ενός φόνου πίσω από τον οποίο κρύβονται περισσότερα απ' όσα νομίζεται. Χάρη στη γλαφυρή περιγραφικότητας της French, θα αισθανθείτε ότι βρίσκεστε και περιδιαβαίνετε τους δρόμους του Λονδίνου. Ενός Λονδίνου σκοτεινού και κρύο που σε κάθε γωνιά του, κρύβει μια νέα απειλή ή και μια νέα αποκάλυψη. Αν με το "Blue Monday" ο πήχης είχε τεθεί ψηλά, με αυτό το βιβλίο, αντί να κατέβει, ανεβαίνει ακόμα περισσότερο, με τη Διόπτρα να αποδεικνύει πως έχει πάρει κεφάλι στον χώρο του αστυνομικού μυθιστορήματος και δεν μπορούμε να κάνουμε τίποτα άλλο από το να περιμένουμε και η αναμονή, θα είναι σίγουρα αργή και βασανιστική.(less)

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Jun 09, 2013 Monica rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: british, crime-and-or-evil

I like the Frieda Klein character, the therapist and her friends - Reuben her mentor and Josef, their Ukrainian builder friend. I like her ambiguous, undefined relationship with the police - DCI Karlsson and Yvette Long. The department is under budgetary pressure and being observed by a sanctimonious efficiency consultant.

Frieda and the cops appreciate each other, don't want to get too close, but recognize both the value and the frustration of the relationship - at one point Karlsson tells Fried...more

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May 09, 2013 Ray Palen rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Nicci French introduced the protagonist of this new series --- psychotherapist heroine, Frieda Klein, in the novel BLUE MONDAY. Suffering from insomnia causes Frieda to roam the ancient rivers of London by night and often turning up some scary things.

In the first novel, Frieda is faced with helping the police in the form of her reluctant partner, Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson, to find a kidnapped 5-year-old boy. Frieda is drawn into the case because the chief suspect may be one of her patie...more

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Jan 10, 2013 Lynsey rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

3.5 really - I enjoyed this book and found it intriguing from the opening scenes. I wanted to know more about doyce and her life, sadly I never got her back story, I wanted to see how the different victims stories developed and was able to identify with frieda's feelings toward Robert Poole! There were elements of his character that were charming you'd imagine and there were times when I thought he hadn't really done wrong my Mary orton. Her obnoxious and self serving sons were so grimly painted...more

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Jul 19, 2012 Lainy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Blurb From Goodreads

Sometimes the mind is a dangerous place to hide.

The rotting, naked corpse of a man is found amidst swarms of flies in the living room of a confused woman. Who is he? Why is Michelle Doyce trying to serve him afternoon tea? And how did the dead body find its way into her flat?

DCI Karlsson needs an expert to delve inside Michelle's mind for answers and turns to former colleague, psychiatrist Frieda Klein. Eventually Michelle's ramblings lead to a vita...more Time Taken To Read - 2 days

Blurb From Goodreads

Sometimes the mind is a dangerous place to hide.

The rotting, naked corpse of a man is found amidst swarms of flies in the living room of a confused woman. Who is he? Why is Michelle Doyce trying to serve him afternoon tea? And how did the dead body find its way into her flat?

DCI Karlsson needs an expert to delve inside Michelle's mind for answers and turns to former colleague, psychiatrist Frieda Klein. Eventually Michelle's ramblings lead to a vital clue that in turn leads to a possible identity. Robert Poole. Jack of all trades and master conman.

The deeper Frieda and Karlsson dig, the more of Poole's victims they encounter . . . and the more motives they uncover for his murder. But is anyone telling them the truth except for poor, confused Michelle?

And when the past returns to haunt Frieda, she finds herself in danger. Whoever set out to destroy Poole also seems determined to destroy Frieda Klein.

My Review

Psychiatrist Frieda Klein is back in the second of the series and this time as well as doing her day job she is helping out the police. They find a dead body in the house of a disturbed young lady who can't tell them if or why she killed the man or how he came to be in his residence. What follows is an investigation that reveals a tangled web of lies, deceit, betrayal, murder and dark secrets.

I didn't particularly like the first in this series but I did enjoy this one much better. There are so many different parts and sidelines to this story so it is never dull, I particularly liked the investigation into the girl at the start and her condition. The story visits a lot of what happened in the first book (so you don't have to read it but I certainly would as it gives you a clearer picture for this book). Frieda is a stronger character this time around although she still visits her previous mentor who again I dislike and find both weak and annoying.

The chapters are fairly short in length which is always good as you can dip in and out when you have things you need to be doing. The writing is fairly easy to follow however as with the first book (although not as much) there is a bit of jumping around from one scene to one particular individual and instead of stars or lines there is a few spaces (in length) separating from the last paragraph it can get confusing although this time you work out quickly it is going back to that individual. I did see a few of the twists coming but enjoyed it none the less so 3/5 for me this time and will keep an eye out for book 3. Thank you so much to Alice Hibbert at the UK Penguin Group for providing me an ARC of this book for an honest review. This book is out for publication today and on sale from all good retailers.

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Apr 13, 2013 Michael Jones rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Frieda is a person who is very tough to read at first. But it introduced me to many things in the world of the psychotherapist. I ended up empathizing greatly with her and feeling that she was basically doing the right thing most of the time.

First, she CARES. She cares toooo much. But that's good. This guy named Joseph really messed up his life, but she puts him right to work on the case. That was really cool. And he is sort of a Russian guy from the Kiev-- so he can read clues that she can't re...more

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Apr 13, 2013 Lora rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Psychotherapist Frieda Klein finds herself working with the London police again, after a decomposing body is found in the apartment of a woman named Michelle Doyce. Michelle is mentally ill and cannot give the authorities any information about who the man is and how he died. Frieda doesn't believe that Michelle is a murderer, neither does DCI Karlsson, but his bosses have closed the case, since Michelle is off the streets and in a psychiatric hospital. Frieda, however, continues to pursue the ma...more

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Apr 08, 2013 Cheryl rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Maggie is a social worker. She has one last stop to make for the day. She is stopping to check on Michelle Doyce. Michelle answers the door and asks Maggie if she wants to meet someone. Maggie finds this a little odd as Michelle lives alone. When Maggie sees the visitor, she knows instantly that something is wrong. The man is dead. He has been for a while as the flies are buzzing around him and he has started bloating from decomposition.

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May 27, 2012 Annie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I’ve long been a big fan of the Nicci French writing partnership – they were writing psychological thrillers long before their current popularity, good stories well told with strong female lead characters (my particular favourites are Killing Me Softly, Beneath the Skin and the wonderful Secret Smile). But I was disappointed in the last two or three before this series started. Psychotherapist Dr Frieda Klein has given them a new and original angle, and this series is shaping up really nicely – I...more

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May 02, 2013 Christine rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: first-reads

I should begin this review by saying that I was lucky enough to win this book in the Goodreads FirstReads Giveaway Program. Because this book was the second in a series, while I was waiting for it to arrive (and it arrived quickly) I read the first book in the series, Blue Monday. I'm glad that I read Blue Monday while I was waiting because I really enjoyed it and because there were many happenings in the first book that impacted the story line in Tuesday’s Gone. However this book could easily b...more

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Apr 12, 2013 LORI CASWELL rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2013

In this follow up to Blue Monday psychotherapist Frieda Klein returns to help Chief Inspector Karlsson. A London social worker making a routine home visit discovers her client serving tea to a naked decomposing corpse. Frieda is asked to help identify the man and what she finds is a complex web of lies and half truths that all eventually seem to connect back to her.

Dollycas’s Thoughts

As I have come to expect from Nicci French this story is a complex puzzle with dynamic characters and ongoing ten...more In this follow up to Blue Monday psychotherapist Frieda Klein returns to help Chief Inspector Karlsson. A London social worker making a routine home visit discovers her client serving tea to a naked decomposing corpse. Frieda is asked to help identify the man and what she finds is a complex web of lies and half truths that all eventually seem to connect back to her.

Dollycas’s Thoughts

As I have come to expect from Nicci French this story is a complex puzzle with dynamic characters and ongoing tension just beneath the surface.

There is so much happening in this story. More layers are pealed away as we get to know more about our protagonist, Frieda Klein. She seems to keep making headlines as a book is released about a former case and Frieda is portrayed in a very poor light. All the officers involved in the current case are not happy to have her consulting as she believes there is much more to the case than meets the eye. She is also very conflicted about the course of her personal life as a new man appears to be interested but she hasn’t dealt with her feeling for a former love that moved away.

Michelle Doyce has been placed in a mental institution but Frieda was able to determine the identity of her guest for tea. But “Robert Poole” seems to be a con man who had ran scams on several people including a nice elderly woman. She was lonely after losing her husband and her sons only visited when they needed something, like her money. She was the perfect choice for a man like “Bob”. Bob turns out to be quite an enigma.

Josef and Reuben also return in this installment. Josef has returned from Kiev with an enormous weight upon his shoulders and both Frieda and Reuben are both trying to be supportive.

As I said the whole story is a complex puzzle and not everything falls into place before that last page. I found myself reading this story very slowly to catch every nuance and clue and I am still not sure I caught them all. It is best to read these books in order because they do build off of each other. Then you will be like me. impatiently Waiting for Wednesday.(less)

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Mar 31, 2013 Kaat V rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Het eerste deel van de 'dokter Frieda Klein' reeks, Blauwe Maandag, heb ik met een ruk uitgelezen. Ik verwachtte dan ook niets minder van het tweede deel 'Dinsdag is voorbij'. Maar het mocht niet baten dat het eerste deel zo'n vaart liep en spannend was. Bij het tweede deel bleef ik maar denken 'wanneer gaat het hier beginnen ? En toen het plot eenmaal geserveerd werd, was ik nog meer ontgoocheld.
Ik ben al nog eens ontgoocheld geweest in Nicci French, namelijk bij het boek 'Wat te doen als ieman...more

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Mar 31, 2013 Becky rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

When Frieda is asked to consult on a new case with the local police, she's a bit surprised. Though the Dean Reeve case was closed and the kidnapped child was saved, two people were murdered and Frieda can't help but feel somewhat responsible. Dean Reeve's wife is writing a tell all that paints Frieda in a none to pleasant light and the wife of the patient who started it all has filed a formal complaint against the therapist. But this new case does intrigue Frieda. A social worker discovers a wom...more When Frieda is asked to consult on a new case with the local police, she's a bit surprised. Though the Dean Reeve case was closed and the kidnapped child was saved, two people were murdered and Frieda can't help but feel somewhat responsible. Dean Reeve's wife is writing a tell all that paints Frieda in a none to pleasant light and the wife of the patient who started it all has filed a formal complaint against the therapist. But this new case does intrigue Frieda. A social worker discovers a woman serving tea to a very dead body. Police obviously suspect the woman but are unable to get a coherent response out of her. When Frieda interviews the suspect, she has serious doubts about the woman's guilt. When they are finally able to identify the dead man, they discover he was a con artist using an assumed name. As they learn more, the police reluctantly admit that they now have a growing list of suspects. What begins as a simple psych consult ends with Frieda once again completely enmeshed in an ongoing investigation and as her professional life comes under public scrutiny her personal life starts to become more complicated as well.

This follow up to Blue Monday was a highly satisfying read! While I'd enjoyed the series launch, I'd had some issues with the flow of the story. In Tuesday's Gone, everything read much more smoothly. The characters established in Monday are all present and now the authors (husband and wife Nicci Gerrard and Sean French) spend much more time rounding them out and allowing them to grow. It seems they've caught their stride here with this second installment.

Frieda is an interesting lead. She's got so many secrets and so closely guards her personal life that a lot of her motivation remains unclear to the reader. As we learn more about her (and there are some pretty big revelations in Tuesday's Gone) the reasons behind her actions are definitely becoming more defined.

I've also enjoyed the cases thus far and Frieda's talent for teasing out details that others have missed.

While you could certainly read Tuesday's Gone without too much confusion if you haven't read Blue Monday, I have to recommend tackling them in order. In addition to the characters themselves, there is a bit of a continuing storyline here that I think would have significantly less impact for readers who've not yet read the first in the series.

If you're looking for an interesting thriller with a great psychological twist, this is the series to try. Tuesday's Gone was released last summer in the UK but officially hits shelves here in the States on April 4. Blue Monday is out now in paperback.
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Aug 07, 2012 Shelleyrae at Book'd Out rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Tuesday's Gone picks up around a year after the events of Blue Monday, which introduced psychiatrist Dr Frieda Klein who reluctantly became involved in a police investigation involving one of her clients and an abducted boy. In the midst of a cold London winter, DCI Karlsson asks Frieda to speak with a disturbed woman found caring for a naked, rotting corpse in her flat, unable to provide a coherent statement. Deciphering Michelle Doyce's rambling leads Freida and Karlsson's team to identify the...more Tuesday's Gone picks up around a year after the events of Blue Monday, which introduced psychiatrist Dr Frieda Klein who reluctantly became involved in a police investigation involving one of her clients and an abducted boy. In the midst of a cold London winter, DCI Karlsson asks Frieda to speak with a disturbed woman found caring for a naked, rotting corpse in her flat, unable to provide a coherent statement. Deciphering Michelle Doyce's rambling leads Freida and Karlsson's team to identify the victim as Robert Poole, but further investigation reveals the man was a scheming conman using a stolen identity. Under pressure due to looming budget cuts, the police are ordered to charge the mentally ill woman with murder and close the case but Frieda believes Michelle innocent and continues to pull at the exposed threads of the investigation.

Nothing is simple in this case, as the investigation into 'Bob Poole' reveals a lonely elderly lady swindled of over a hundred thousand dollars, a young wife and mother who succumbed to his charms and a vulnerable neighbour who misses the kind man who visited her regularly. Karlsson is under pressure to ignore Frieda's suspicions but trusts her instincts that there is something more sinister happening.
As well as the storyline involving the murdered confidence man, somewhere a young woman waits for the return of her lover, Karlsson is frustrated by custody issues and Josef has returned from Kiev, a broken man.
February is turning out to be a bad month personally for Frieda too, she is still missing her former lover but reluctant to respond to his overtures, her niece, Chloe, is acting out, the wife of a former patient has made a formal complaint about her professionalism, the publication of a book related to a former case paints her in a bad light sparking unflattering media interest and if that wasn't enough, she feels she is being watched. Only an attentive accountant seems to offer Frieda some relief.
It is Frieda's very reserved character that sets the tone for the novel. Even with so much happening in Tuesday's Gone, the story doesn't feel crowded, neither does the pace feel rushed. I thought the suspense was somewhat muted but there is a constant undercurrent of tension and I couldn't help but be intrigued by both the characters and the twists and turns of the story.

Though I wish I had read Blue Monday, the first in the Frieda Klein series, before Tuesday's Gone, this novel can be read as a stand alone. With it's carefully crafted plot and interesting characters, Tuesday's Gone is an absorbing psychological thriller.(less)

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Jun 13, 2013 Brittany rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: first-reads, own, reviewed

I won this book through the First Reads giveaway section on Goodreads in May 2013.

Within the first chapter, I was drawn into Tuesday's Gone. Immediately I got a A Rose for Emily (William Faulkner) vibe. Which is one of my favorite all time short stories, despite its gothic nature which is something I'm honestly far from interested in.

I found the beginning of the book to move along pretty quickly, with a variety of different things going on at once, but it was too much. Within the first 100 pages...more I won this book through the First Reads giveaway section on Goodreads in May 2013.

Within the first chapter, I was drawn into Tuesday's Gone. Immediately I got a A Rose for Emily (William Faulkner) vibe. Which is one of my favorite all time short stories, despite its gothic nature which is something I'm honestly far from interested in.

I found the beginning of the book to move along pretty quickly, with a variety of different things going on at once, but it was too much. Within the first 100 pages, I was trying to get all the characters straight with who was who and how they were involved with the overall plot. It was difficult getting into the story when I was concentrating on all the different people.

A lot of the characters in the book seem to be filler, and their involvement to the overall story was just... unnecessary. I liked the book, but it could've cut out a lot of the characters and still gotten its plot across. I really don't see much connection between the characters other than they all got screwed over, and in which case we as readers could've done without the long drawn out history of their lives.

I'm disappointed with the Michelle Doyce involvement. Like I said, I liked this book even if it did take me awhile to read it. However, the ending -- roughly the last 20 pages or so -- felt completely rushed and that was almost the best part of the book! There was no suspense, no moment of clarity, just barely touched the who-done-it aspect and it really left me with a "seriously?" This book could've had potential but it was poorly executed.

I know this particular copy of Tuesday's Gone is an advanced copy so I tried to look past any grammatical or punctuation errors, but some of the punctuation was really distracting and caused me to re-read sentences a few times. Quotation marks were often scattered. I'm sure the final published copy would be completely different.

Also, the British "slang" (i.e. words and phrases we don't use here in the U.S.) set my brain into overdrive. There was so much that I gave up looking everything up! And I'm pretty sure a lot of things would've been less confusing if I knew what these words and phrases meant.(less)

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Mar 20, 2013 I_love_books rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Eisiger Dienstag – Frieda untersucht wieder die Abgründe der menschlichen Seele
Frieda Klein hat noch an einigen Dingen zu knabbern: Die Trennung mit ihrem Freund setzt ihr ganz schön zu. Noch hinzu kommt, dass sich die Ehefrau ihres ehemaligen Patienten Alan über ihr Fehlverhalten als Psychotherapeutin beschwert hat und nun wird aufgrund dessen gegen sie ermittelt. Für die Presse ist Frieda das gefundene Fressen. Ihr bleibt also nur übrig die Situation auszusitzen, die Hetzjagd weitestgehend zu...more

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Oct 21, 2012 Laurel-Rain rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Dr. Frieda Klein is a London psychotherapist introduced in "Blue Monday: A Novel," a story that brought other characters to the canvas, like police detective Karlsson. The back story from the first novel reverberates periodically in "Tuesday's Gone," another thriller that opens with a murder. But not just any murder. The victim himself is an unknown entity, which makes finding the killer even more challenging. And when his body is discovered in the flat of a mentally ill woman, there is very lit...more Dr. Frieda Klein is a London psychotherapist introduced in "Blue Monday: A Novel," a story that brought other characters to the canvas, like police detective Karlsson. The back story from the first novel reverberates periodically in "Tuesday's Gone," another thriller that opens with a murder. But not just any murder. The victim himself is an unknown entity, which makes finding the killer even more challenging. And when his body is discovered in the flat of a mentally ill woman, there is very little remaining evidence to go on. For poor Michelle Doyce has been sitting with the body for some time, in a state of confusion.

Who is the victim known to them initially as Robert Poole, a con man? He has stolen someone else's identity, and as the police zero in on who some of his victims were, they learn a lot more about him—except who he really is and who killed him. They learn how he listens to those he victimizes; he gives them his full attention, something each of them needs desperately.

As in the previous book, Dr. Klein is acting as a consultant to the police, but in these cost-cutting times, it looks like her days of assisting may be numbered. And the attitude of the other detectives (other than Karlsson) are resentful. Sometimes her job is made more difficult by these attitudes.

In the process of untangling the very elusive strands that might knit the case together into a useful shape, we meet some intriguing characters. Those who show us bits and pieces of how they fit into Robert Poole's world.

But who is the nameless woman huddled on a barge, waiting for someone's return? Why is she still there, when she could go? What is she waiting for? And how does she play a role in the mystery?

Like a giant jigsaw puzzle with intricate pieces that must go together in just the right way, we gradually come to understand what at first seemed unknowable. But the danger will mount, putting everyone in peril before we find the answers.

I like Frieda Klein. She is elusive, mysterious, and clever. She is also hiding her own past secrets. Will her history keep her from finding that true feeling of home, or will she continually walk the streets of London at night until she works out her own puzzle?

I could not put this book down. And just when I realized that not all the answers would be forthcoming, I knew that there will have to be another book in this series. And I can't wait! Five stars. (less)

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May 01, 2013 Lauren rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The second book in the Dr. Frieda Klein series written by the husband and wife team known as Nicci French has a captivating story line. Psychotherapist, Dr. Frieda Klein finds herself once again assisting DCI Karlsson and the London Police after an unknown man in found dead, naked, and decomposing in the apartment of a woman with an extreme mental disorder. Then, instead of things getting easier once the body is identified, things just got stranger. However, although I couldn't put the book down...more

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Aug 15, 2012 Nicki Markus rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I actually enjoyed this book a great deal more than Blue Monday, the first in the series. I think that was because the storyline in this one appealed to me more and also the main characters were established and you knew what to expect and how they'd act. There was also more development of Frieda's character in this book and I liked that additional information on her background as it made her actions and feeling make more sense.

I thought the pacing of this book was excellent and there was never a...more

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Jun 09, 2013 Nikki rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I just could not get in to this story. I read the first 75 pages or so and nothing about it was capturing my attention. I don't read other peoples reviews of books before I begin them because I have found in the past that my taste does not always match up with everyone else and I may really enjoy a book other people don't or vice versa. After I forced myself through the beginning of the novel I went ahead and looked at some of the reviews for the novel on this site and most of them are 3 stars o...more

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Aug 21, 2012 Bree T rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: arc, crime, series, suspense

It’s been over a year since Frieda Klein worked the police case with DCI Malcolm Karlsson. In that time she’s gone back to her normal life, being a therapist to her patients, keeping up with her niece Chloe and trying resolutely not to think of Sandy, the lover who went to America. Then all of a sudden, Karlsson shows up, asking for her help again.

A routine visit from Social Services led to an utterly grim discovery. A woman who had been released from psychiatric care without any real diagnosis...more It’s been over a year since Frieda Klein worked the police case with DCI Malcolm Karlsson. In that time she’s gone back to her normal life, being a therapist to her patients, keeping up with her niece Chloe and trying resolutely not to think of Sandy, the lover who went to America. Then all of a sudden, Karlsson shows up, asking for her help again.

A routine visit from Social Services led to an utterly grim discovery. A woman who had been released from psychiatric care without any real diagnosis and bounced to a hostel was visited by a worker for a check up and the worker found her taking tea with a naked man who had clearly been dead for nearly a week. When questioned by the police, the woman, named Michelle Doyce made very little sense. Karlsson thought that Frieda might be able to talk to her, perhaps unravel the fabric of what she was saying. Frieda states that she doesn’t specialise in mental disorders but she agrees to visit the woman anyway.

It seems as though the identity of the man is going to be impossible to find – the case is deemed closed but Frieda finds her strong sense of justice stirring and she does some investigation herself, ultimately coming up with a possible name for the victim. Only when the police go to inform the deceased’s next of kin, they unravel an even greater mystery which leads to the fact that victim may in fact have been the predator, targeting the wealthy. The more they dig into this mysterious man’s past, the more people they find have been touched by him, the more motives there are for a number of people to be the one that killed him.

Frieda finds herself up to her neck in a new investigation and not only that but an old one is coming back to haunt her too.

Tuesday’s Gone is the second in the Frieda Klein series by husband-and-wife writing duo Nicci Gerrard and Sean French who write under the pen name of Nicci French. I read the first in this series, Blue Monday, very recently after I received this one for review and I am so glad that I took the time to track it down and read it first before I opened up this one! There were reveals in that book that would’ve been totally spoiled by this book and a story that carries over so I think it’s best to read the series in order.

In this novel, Karlsson pops up in Frieda’s life to ask her to again help him with a case and to also perhaps make the arrangement ‘official’ by getting her a contract. Frieda has some interesting reactions to working with the police – on one hand, she’s really reluctant to get involved, but then she does. And once she is involved, no matter how minor that initial involvement is, it’s like she can’t help herself and that she has to see everything through until the very end. She has a strong sense of duty, I think Frieda feels that at times she must advocate for these people involved in these crimes and situations when there is no one else to advocate for them. She seems to particularly feel this way for Michelle Doyce, a woman with a very obscure mental disorder that makes her reality very different to the reality experienced by others.

I am coming to really like Frieda, quite slowly she is growing on me more and more. I feel like my feelings for her are mirroring the way in which the author/s are slowly allowing us to discover more of her, over the course of this series. She’s less solitary in this novel, I’m pleased to see characters recurring, such as Josef, the Ukrainian builder and Sasha, a woman who came to Frieda in Blue Monday and is now a friend. Chloe and Olivia, the only family she seems to speak to with any regularity are a presence as well, their story continuing on. We learn snippets more of Frieda’s life but what we learn seems to raise only more questions than it does to really give the reader any answers.

I really enjoyed the dynamic between Karlsson and Frieda in this book – she is more relaxed around him and even though it seems their relationship is based around either arguing about what is right and wrong or disagreeing on pretty much everything concerning a case, it really works for them. I think there are a few deeper moments here as well, where they both support each other in ways that perhaps other people cannot do for them – Karlsson confides something in her that he has told no one and in turn Frieda tells him about a fear she has concerning their previous case, which he looks in to for her. Even though what she comes out with is outlandish at times, I think Karlsson is learning very quickly to believe her. She may have some odd-sounding theories at times but they end up being right!

Tuesday’s Gone is an excellent second installment in a series – it builds upon the characters and the relationships in the first as well as providing an interesting primary mystery/case but also carrying on quite a few things from the case in the first novel. I liked that French chose to continue that as there were so many unanswered questions I had at the end of Blue Monday that I weren’t sure were going to be addressed here and I really have a disliking for lack of closure! I’m really enjoying this series and I’ll be anxiously awaiting the 3rd novel, hopefully sometime in 2013.(less)

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About Nicci French

Note: (Nicci Gerrard and Sean French also write separately.)

Nicci Gerrard was born in June 1958 in Worcestershire. After graduating with a first class honours degree in English Literature from Oxford University, she began her first job, working with emotionally disturbed children in Sheffield. In that same year she married journalist Colin Hughes.

In the early eighties she taught English Literature...more Note: (Nicci Gerrard and Sean French also write separately.)

Nicci Gerrard was born in June 1958 in Worcestershire. After graduating with a first class honours degree in English Literature from Oxford University, she began her first job, working with emotionally disturbed children in Sheffield. In that same year she married journalist Colin Hughes.

In the early eighties she taught English Literature in Sheffield, London and Los Angeles, but moved into publishing in 1985 with the launch of Women's Review, a magazine for women on art, literature and female issues.

In 1987 Nicci had a son, Edgar, followed by a daughter, Anna, in 1988, but a year later her marriage to Colin Hughes broke down.

In 1989 she became acting literary editor at the New Statesman, before moving to the Observer, where she was deputy literary editor for five years, and then a feature writer and executive editor.

It was while she was at the New Statesman that she met Sean French.

Sean French was born in May 1959 in Bristol, to a British father and Swedish mother. He too studied English Literature at Oxford University at the same time as Nicci, also graduating with a first class degree, but their paths didn't cross until 1990. In 1981 he won Vogue magazine's Writing Talent Contest, and from 1981 to 1986 he was their theatre critic. During that time he also worked at the Sunday Times as deputy literary editor and television critic, and was the film critic for Marie Claire and deputy editor of New Society.

Sean and Nicci were married in Hackney in October 1990. Their daughters, Hadley and Molly, were born in 1991 and 1993.

By the mid-nineties Sean had had two novels published, The Imaginary Monkey and The Dreamer of Dreams, as well as numerous non-fiction books, including biographies of Jane Fonda and Brigitte Bardot.

In 1995 Nicci and Sean began work on their first joint novel and adopted the pseudonym of Nicci French. The Memory Game was published to great acclaim in 1997 followed by The Safe House (1998), Killing Me Softly (1999), Beneath the Skin (2000), The Red Room (2001), Land of the Living (2002), Secret Smile (2003), Catch Me When I Fall (2005), Losing You (2006) and Until It's Over (2008). Their latest novel together is What To Do When Someone Dies (2009).

Nicci and Sean also continue to write separately. Nicci still works as a journalist for the Observer, covering high-profile trials including those of Fred and Rose West, and Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr. Novels include Things We Knew Were True (2003), Solace (2005) and The Moment You Were Gone (2007). Sean's last novel is Start From Here (2004).
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