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Psychotherapist Dr Frieda Klein once again finds herself in the midst of a criminal investigation when the rotting body of an ex-policeman is found beneath he floorboards of her house.
The corpse is only months old but the main suspect, murderer Dean Reeve, died over seven years ago.
As the killer picks off his next victims and her home is turned into a crime scene, Frieda´s old life seems like a hazy dream.
With eyes of the world upon her and no answers from the police, Frieda realises that she will have to track this killer before he tracks down those she loves.

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´Nicci French´s sophisticated, compassionate and gripping crime novels stand head and shoulders above the competition´
Sophie Hannah

It´s always darkest before the light comes. In the chilling seventh instalment of the bestselling, critically acclaimed Frieda Klein series, evil looms but this time it´s far too close to home . . .

´There´s a body in Saffron Mews . . .´

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 . . .

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Stop what you are doing and start [reading] right now . . . Dean is back. (Or is he?) SAM BAKER IS READING The Pool

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Nicci French is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of journalists Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. The couple are married and live in Suffolk. There are fourteen other bestselling novels by Nicci French, all published by Penguin. Blue Monday was the first thrilling story in the Frieda Klein series, followed by Tuesday´s Gone, Waiting for Wednesday, Thursday´s Child, Friday on My Mind, Saturday Requiem and Sunday Morning Coming Down.

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