Thursday's Children: A Frieda Klein Mystery

Authors: French, Nicci
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC022000, FIC022020, FIC031080
ISBN: 9780698184749, Related ISBNs: 0143127217, 0698184742, 0698404076, 1101921714, 1101921722
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 368,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: “Fierce, fascinating and full of insight, Frieda Klein is irresistible.”—Val McDermid, bestselling author of Splinter the Silence

The electrifying fourth book in the internationally bestselling Frieda Klein Mystery series


Frieda Klein is uninterested in catching up on old times when her former classmate, Maddie Capel, shows up at her door—until she hears about Maddie’s troubled daughter, Becky. The teenager claims she was raped in her own bed one night while her mother was downstairs. Her assailant left her with a warning: “Don’t think of telling anyone, sweetheart. Nobody will believe you.” And no one does—except Frieda.
 
Becky’s story awakens dark memories of an eerily similar incident in Frieda’s own past that she’s been avoiding for decades. When Becky is found hanging from a beam in her bedroom, Frieda returns home, seeking out her old high school friends to ask what they remember about the night that prompted Frieda to leave town for good. But confronting the ghosts of the past turns out to be more dangerous than she ever expected. 
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