Tips and Resources From Your Nicci French Book Club Friends:

When setting out to develop the character of Frieda Klein, Nicci and Sean (aka Nicci French) say, “We started talking about a detective who wasn’t an actual detective, or a forensic scientist, or a pathologist. But a psychoanalyst is a kind of detective, a detective of the mind.”

The popular thriller series delves into secrets, dark crimes, and Frieda’s haunting past, all the while keeping readers on the edges of their seats. There are plenty of more chills in the standalone thrillers that Nicci French has written such as Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? and The Lying Room.

Although their mystery thrillers are fiction, the writing duo does see something they have in common with their main protagonists. They say, “Therapists, detectives and writers have something in common. In different ways they all impose some sort of narrative on the messiness of existence.”