Tuesday’s Gone by Nicci French – Published in paperback by Penguin, on 17 January 2013

The second book in the series featuring Psychotherapist Frieda Klein. A follow up to Blue Monday#, the story starts with the discovery of a decomposing body in a flat occupied by Michelle, a woman with serious mental health issues. Michelle doesn’t understand the man is dead and can’t explain who he is or where he came from.

DCI Karlsson is investigating; he has worked with Frieda in the past and believes she can get through to Michelle and so help identify the victim and thus unravel the crime.

When the corpse is eventually identified, details of his life provide plenty of motives for his murder. And as his past is revealed, Frieda’s own life and work is pushed into the limelight.

One reviewer says that “Nicci French knows just how to play on our worst fears”. This book certainly gave me some very unnerving and haunting dreams!

Although a stand-alone story, with an ingenious solution, the ending also provides a cunning teaser for the next book, Waiting for Wednesday. As usual, an extremely well written and thought provoking, page turner of a book. *****

#Note: it isn’t essential to read Blue Monday before reading this book but references in Tuesday’s Gone give away key elements of the plot.