One nightmare is over…īut another is about to begin. And she knows that all she has to do is stay alive, even though everything she is experiencing tells her she won’t. She knows she has been kidnapped, even though she has little memory of her most recent past. She feels the unknown hands that touch her in the dark. She senses, but can’t see, the eyes that watch her. Drawing readers into a haunting world in which the terrors of the mind have spilled over into real life, Blue Monday introduces a compelling protagonist and a chilling mystery that will appeal to readers of dark crime fiction and fans of In Treatment and The Killing.Ībbie Devereaux lies flat on her back, her arms and legs tied down, her head covered with a hood.
She finds herself in the center of the investigation, serving as the reluctant sidekick of the chief inspector. A red haired child he can describe in perfect detail, a child the spitting image of Matthew. And when his face is splashed over the newspapers, Frieda cannot ignore the coincidence: one of her patients has been having dreams in which he has a hunger for a child. The abduction of five year old Matthew Farraday provokes a national outcry and a desperate police hunt. This attitude is reflected in her own life, which is an austere one of refuge, personal integrity, and order. She believes that the world is a messy, uncontrollable place, but what we can control is what is inside our heads. The stunning first book in a new series of psychological thrillers introducing an unforgettable London psychotherapist Frieda Klein is a solitary, incisive psychotherapist who spends her sleepless nights walking along the ancient rivers that have been forced underground in modern London.
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