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Frieda Klein Novel Series (1-7) Nicci French 7 Books Collection Set

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Incidents and murders were coming too close to home for Frieda. She couldn’t figure out the message Dean was trying to get to Frieda, but Frieda knew it was a message of evil, sadness, and death. But was it really Dean? Was he really still alive as Frieda and only Frieda believed or could there be a copycat added to the mix?

In the early eighties she taught English Literature in Sheffield, London and Los Angeles, but moved into publishing in 1985 with the launch of Women's Review, a magazine for women on art, literature and female issues.Thursday’s Children is the fourth novel in the Frieda Klein psychological suspense series co-written by husband and wife team Nicci Gerard and Sean French. Given the titles of the novels, which all feature a day of the week, I guessed we’d be limited in the amount of novels this series would include. I found an old article saying there is expected to be 8 – one named for each day of the week and then a final novel to “bring resolution”. British television changed in 1991, when DCI Jane Tennison (steadying herself outside the door, taking a deep breath, fixing a cool expression on to her face) walked into an incident room filled with a sneering, jeering, sniggering, lewd, matey, loyal band of detectives who were almost all male: a rugby team of lads, incredulous that someone in a skirt was to take charge of a murder investigation, humiliated by having a woman boss. The drama of who killed and mutilated the female victims ran alongside the drama of a woman battling in a man’s world: how could Tennison withstand the hostility and outright bullying of her colleagues and bosses, and at the same time manage her private life? She had to be tougher than the men at work and still soft and tender at home, placating her lover, apologising to him, cooking for him, compartmentalising her world, though of course the boundaries kept crumbling and collapsing. In the lonely spaces in between, she stood in corridors, visibly collecting herself for the next fight; she smoked ravenously. She was her own battleground.

Ik heb het boek inmiddels herlezen. Ik ben vanochtend begonnen en zojuist heb ik het uitgelezen. Ik zat vanaf het begin in het verhaal en het leest vlot. Ik heb me dit keer niet zo aan Frieda geërgerd als de eerste keer dat ik het las. Al snapte ik haar gedrag niet helemaal. Het verhaal is niet zo spannend dat je continu op het puntje van je stoel zit. Toch is het wel zo boeiend dat ik bleef ik lezen. Ik kon weinig van het verhaal herinneren, ook al las ik het eerder. Ik wist zelfs niet meer wie het gedaan heeft. Wel wist ik nog dat een van haar tijdelijke huisgenoten haar bedrogen had. Terwijl Frieda juist zo behulpzaam en goedaardig was. Ik heb zojuist deel 6 gereserveerd bij de bibliotheek. Vanaf dat deel heb ik de serie niet meer gelezen, dus ik ben erg benieuwd hoe ik dat boek ga ervaren. Ook heeft deel 5 genoeg losse eindjes om verder op te borduren. While Freida grapples with her past, her loyal friends, Josef, Reuben, and Karlsson among them, rally to support her, even though Frieda is as always determinated to go it alone. The only element of the storyline that had me puzzled was Frieda's seemingly sudden rejection of Sandy, I could guess at the psychology of it but it was rather abrupt and I still can't quite make sense of it. The Fall powerfully explores sexual violence and the way in which serial rapists and killers eroticise power and death, but there’s a very fine line between exploring violence and male misogyny and simply portraying, even enacting it. I couldn’t work out if it was feminist or almost pornographic in its visceral depictions of degradation and sexual horror. Perhaps it is both – and perhaps that’s why it is so powerfully disturbing. But I wonder if the series could have got away with its portrayal of the sexual torture of women if it hadn’t had a strong professional woman at its centre. Did Anderson’s DCI Gibson legitimise the portrayal of sexual horror?

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Frieda is approached by an old schoolmate asking for help with her teenage daughter who has stopped eating and has become withdrawn. Many themes are touched upon in “Blue Monday“. Professional ethics, guilt, nature vs. nurture, the merits of psychoanalysis, the damage caused by child abduction, human foibles, secrets, and more. This is the 7th book in the Psychotherapist Dr Frieda Klein series by authors Nicci Gerrard and Sean French who publish under the pseudonym Nicci French. It's that quote by Maddie that irks me the most. And it says a lot about society that unfortunately a lot of people would agree with her. Women who aren't mothers, by choice or otherwise, are treated as a lower species, inhuman. And as a non-mother, I do take offence to that. It's possible to be a mother without being obnoxious and derogatory about it, but unfortunately Maddie... That she's a victim's mother is no excuse for her to lash out at innocent people like Frieda.

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