Tuesday, September 26, 2017

SUNDAY MORNING COMING DOWN by Nicci French (fiction)

This is the seventh installment in the Frieda Klein series of mysteries.  These books are best read in order, and with this book the week has been completed.  “Blue Monday” was the first in the series and looking back, is perhaps the best of the series.  All of the books have been reviewed in this blog.

As a quick overview, Frieda Klein is a London psychotherapist who off and on, works with the police to hunt down criminals.  This book begins with a dead body found under the floorboards in Frieda’s own flat and she becomes a suspect herself.  Before long her friends are threatened by the killer, and if you have read the other books in the series, you have a good idea who the murderer is, and what the message is that he is sending to Frieda.  The earlier novels in the series were suspenseful and addictive. However, by the 5th in the series, my interest was flagging, the devotion of Frieda’s friends was getting on my nerves, and I was as desperate as Frieda to put away her protagonist.  I was sure this was going to be the grand finale with all the answers.  Finally I would be free!! By the last third of the book, I began to suspect that the end was not nigh, and that perhaps the plot line would be further stretched.  There is a tidying up by the end of the book, but the mysterious Dean Reeve has not been captured.  Sure enough, I recently discovered there is to be another novel called, “Sunday Silence” which promises to wrap up the series.

If you began this series, most likely you will continue.  The plot line and suspense is excellent, even though the characters become tiresome.  And how can one resist knowing how Frieda will eventually outsmart Dean Reeve!

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