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    Tuesday's Gone: A Novel

    Written by Nicci French

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    In Tuesday's Gone, a London social worker makes a routine home visit only to discover her client, Michelle Doyce, serving afternoon tea to a naked, decomposing corpse. With no clues as to the dead man's identity, Chief Inspector Karlsson again calls upon Frieda for help. She discovers that the body belongs to Robert Poole, con man extraordinaire. But Frieda can't shake the feeling that the past isn't done with her yet. Did someone kill Poole to embroil her in the investigation? And if so, is Frieda herself the next victim?

    A masterpiece of paranoia, Tuesday's Gone draws readers inexorably into a fractured and faithless world as it brilliantly confirms Frieda Klein as a quintessential heroine for our times.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateApr 4, 2013
    ISBN9781101605134
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    Tuesday's Gone: A Novel
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    Nicci French

    Nicci French is the pseudonym of English wife-and-husband team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. Their acclaimed novels of psychological suspense have sold more than sixteen million copies around the world.

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    • 5/5
      TUESDAY’S GONE: A FRIEDA KLEIN MYSTERY. It is Book 2 in the series written by Nicci French. Nicci French is the pseudonym of English husband and wife team, Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, who write psychological thrillers together.I am glad that I am reading the series in order, as many of the same characters and plot points from BLUE MONDAY (Book 1) reappear in a very sinister way.I am getting more involved in Frieda’s personality and am very involved in her solitary, night time walks around London. Her knowledge of London’s history, especially of its rivers, is fascinating. The book has an exceptional ‘sense of place’ and one just soaks up the London atmosphere and quirks. TUESDAY’S GONE map (and Frieda’s walks) focus on the River Tyburn as it winds its way past Hampstead Heath, through Regent’s Park, eventually making its way into the Thames at Pimlico. The River Tyburn is one of London’s ‘lost rivers’ which flow mainly underground. Fascinating. I have been reading non-stop about these ‘lost rivers’. BLUE MONDAY’s map shows the meanderings of the River Fleet.p.243 (Frieda) “Sometimes I think rivers and streams make people uncomfortable. They’re wet, they move, they bubble up out of the ground, they flood, they dry up. Better just to put them out of sight.” TUESDAY’S GONE opens with a social worker making a routine visit to client Michelle Doyce, and finds her serving tea and biscuits to a naked, very dead, decomposing corpse. Clueless as to the corpse’s identity, DCI Karlsson asks Frieda for help.I would describe TUESDAY’S GONE as very suspenseful, gritty, intelligent, interesting, detailed and thrilling.Freida Klein is an excellent character - a brilliant psychotherapist, realistic, blunt, always thoughtful.A thoroughly enjoyable thriller - a Five Star read. *****I can’t wait for Book 3 - the interesting characters, plots and ‘lost rivers’.
    • 4/5
      This is a well written character study that is also a mystery. I read it over a 3 day period. That indicates I had a problem putting it down. My only negative comment about the book is, for me, it was "dark". Although I could not put it down - when I did I found myself feel depressed. Strangely enough, I would recommend it as something to read that is a little different.
    • 4/5
      The whodunit aspect is not much of a mystery, but everything else about the book is so finely made.
    • 4/5
      Another novel with Frieda Klein as the main character.

      Again the author uses London almost as a character and introduces the reader to interesting places and sides of this city - nice idea and definately a plus, compared to most crime novels with interchangeable locations. All main characters from the first book reappear again in this novel, some characters which are only briefly mentioned in book are expanded in this second book.

      The plot of this book is better than the first, more coherent and believable, despite its "surprising twists". The loose ends from book one are picked up as well and the story of the twins and the still missing victim continues.

      I really liked this novel (in my opinion it is better than the first) - and I would have liked it even more, if I read the books in chronological order. I am looking forward to Wednesday.
    • 4/5
      "Tuesday's Gone" (TG) by Nicci French is their second book (after "Blue Monday", BM) in what is to be an 8 book series. "Waiting for Wednesday" is due April, 2014 in the US. I enjoyed the first book in the series, also rated it 4 stars, but wasn't sure I would continue with it because I felt there were too many improbable plot turns, and I had my issues with the protagonist, Frieda Klein, a London based psychotherapist. TG begins with the decaying remains of a con artist (Robert Poole) found in the apartment of a mentally unbalanced woman. Frieda becomes involved when the police ask for her help in getting the woman to speak sensibly about events leading up to Poole's death. A number of his victims are quickly identified and interviewed. Concurrently, there are some threads left over from BM, and Frieda's attention is also drawn there, back to the survivors of that episode, mainly Alan's widow and Dean's victim/wife. Both have issues with Frieda. And Frieda's BM romance resurfaces with the temporary return of her ex from the US. As the story unfolds, the threads from BM grow stronger and what we have seems to be both a series and a serial. A series in the sense of ongoing characters and links back to previous books, and a serial in the sense of being left with a bit of a cliff hanger to draw us back. It seems that the Alan and Dean case may weave its way through a number of books, perhaps the whole series. Bottomline, I enjoyed this book a bit more than the first, I'll continue the series for now, I still have some issues with Frieda - she can be a stick-in- the-mud and know-it-all, the story again has some improbable twists,and I may get bored quickly with this Alan/Dean thing but we'll see.
    • 4/5
      This is a good book Frieda Klein assists the Police after the body of a strange man is found in the flat of a mentally disabled woman. Its not a straight forward case. Frieda wont settle for any loose ends and keeps digging. It turns out the murdered man was conning people out of money. A brother and sister both professional people befriend Frieda she is suspicious and discovers it was them that murdered the con man so they could get his ill gotten gains. Frieda nearly dies at the end of the book. We never discover who the con man actually was.
    • 5/5
      Events in this volume follow pretty much immediately after those of Blue Monday. There's a brief recap to refresh your memory if you're reading them a year apart as they were published, and again in the next one, but I'd strongly recommend gobbling them all up back-to-back.

      Freida Klein is a complicated character. She's amazingly private, but not cold, and other people appreciate her kindness, sensitivity, and good advice. In her orbit there's a sister-in-law and teenaged niece, her mentor, the clinic's manager, a former patient, the friends with the cafe she relies on so heavily for all her meals, the therapist she is mentoring, the Ukrainian builder, the lover who left her for a job in the US, and now various people from Scotland Yard.

      She has a strong network, but she's not in the habit of asking others for help. And now, after the successes and failures of the case she helped on, she's having a bad time coping. And then there's another case centered on a woman with profound mental issues.

      As mysteries I quite like these books. They're not exploitative of their victims and the bad guys are never one-dimensional. Through Klein the reader is given a deeply empathetic look at the lives of people who've been overlooked, neglected, forgotten. The format of the series means that the reader keeps abreast of events after the police are finished detecting: there's both emotional and legal ramifications to follow up on.

      There is also a very sad tone to the books. Klein is an insomniac, prone to walking the streets of London when her mind is restless, but it's not a hopelessness in the face of the horrible things humanity does to itself. Even where it isn't possible to save everyone, or prevent violence, it is possible to help people, and Klein doesn't stop trying. Despite the book's long cold winter, there will be better, warmer, times ahead.

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    • 4/5
      Tuesday’s Gone by husband and wife team Nicci French continues their series featuring psychotherapist Frieda Klein. This is a series that needs to be read in order, as there are certain story-lines that continue from book to book. In this outing, Freida is helping the police with the murder of an unidentified corpse who was found in the house of a mentally ill woman. When it turns out that the corpse belonged to a charming con man, the police find themselves scrambling to find his victims.Still haunted by the events that occurred in Blue Monday, Frieda continues to work with the police on this new case even though one colleague suggests that perhaps she is in danger of losing sight of whether she is a therapist or a detective. Frieda herself seems to have an uncanny ability to piece together the stories of various witnesses and suspects and arrive at the correct answer. Tuesday’s Gone is another clever and enthralling entry into this exciting series and I am enjoying getting to know the many layers of Frieda Klein. Aided by a cast of engaging supporting characters, and the author’s skillful plotting Tuesday’s Gone is another dark, insightful thriller.
    • 4/5
      Tuesday’s Gone by Nicci French is a 2012 Penguin Group publication.“Monday’s like jumping into ice-cold water, but you get a shock of excitement. On Tuesday you’re still in the water but the shock has worn off and you’re just cold.” This second book in the Frieda Klein series finds the psychologist involved in a disturbing case centered around a mentally ill woman who had been keeping a dead man in her residence. When it becomes clear the man was murdered, Frieda officially becomes a consultant with the police and soon finds herself involved with clever con game, while at the same time, she slowly begins to realize that the last case she worked is far from resolved and now that she’s discovered the truth, she is most likely in danger. I had a little trouble getting into the first book of this series, but since I already had the second book checked out from my library, I decided to keep going with it. I’m glad I did, because I enjoyed this one better, and found the writing to be a lot more fluid. The story is slow moving at times and often it feels as though nothing is really happening, but Frieda’s personality really begins to take shape, and her relationships with her friends and family were fleshed out more, giving the reader better idea of what makes Frieda tick. The murder case is a little complex, very puzzling, and I have to admit, I was I pretty surprised by the outcome. I was also relieved when Frieda finally got clued in about a troubling thread the first book left hanging and can see how that story will continue to weave itself into further installments. That being said, I highly recommend reading this series in order. I am hoping Frieda will find a way to continue on with her consulting position, and will finally find the proof she needs to put a murderer away before she becomes his next victim. So, overall, I feel like this series could grow on me more as we go along, so, “Waiting on Wednesday” is queued up and ready to go. Should be interesting.
    • 5/5
      She pressed her head harder against the door, feeling her brain working, her thoughts hissing. She couldn’t stop herself: the past was seeping into the present and there were things she needed to know. She wondered why she was doing this. Why was she going back? – from Tuesday’s Gone, page 62 -Frieda Klein still carries the guilt of a young woman’s murder and the nagging suspicion that the killer still walks free. When Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson once again calls upon Frieda to help unravel the mystery of a man’s death, Frieda is a bit reticent. But when she hears about the mentally ill woman who has been accused of the murder, she is curious. Robert Poole, a con man with a shadowy past, has been found naked and dead and covered with flies, while Michelle Doyce attempts to serve him afternoon tea. It is a bizarre and convoluted case. Who is Robert? And who would want to kill him? One thing Frieda is certain of, Michelle had nothing to do with the crime. As the pieces of the puzzle begin to come together, Frieda begins to sense a dark threat to her own life. Has her past come back to haunt her?The second book in the Frieda Klein series is a page turner. Once again Nicci French creates tension and mystery where anyone could be a suspect in murder. I read the first book in this new series and was hooked. Frieda Klein is a complex character who struggles with intimacy and love for herself while she wants to rescue others. She is a compelling protagonist who invites readers into her world and keeps them there until the last page is turned.She was in the room and yet somehow standing back from it. She gave you her full attention, and yet at the same time you felt she had a core of isolation, of separateness. It made her a kind of magnet. - from Tuesday’s Gone, page 303 -Although Tuesday’s Gone could stand alone, I believe readers would be best served by starting with Blue Monday before cracking the spine on the second book. Nicci French provides enough background to remind readers of what happened in the first book, and then closes the novel with a hook to lead into book number three (released this month in the UK). I will be eager to get a copy of Waiting for Wednesday when it makes its US debut because now that I have become a part of Freida Klein’s world, I don’t want to leave!Tuesday’s Gone is a psychological thriller which has terrific characters and a well-plotted mystery that had me wondering how it would all end. The book is atmospheric, capturing the mood of England’s largest city and the flow of the Thames River to create a novel which fully immerses the reader in the back alleys and run down tenements of London. Unlike the first book in the series, Tuesday’s Gone never flagged for me, keeping up a relentless pace and unbearable tension until the end.Readers who love suspense-thrillers that delve deeply into the psychological, as well as those who like their books well plotted, will want to read Tuesday’s Gone.Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      Freida Klein is a therapist who occasionally finds herself helping the police in their cases, usually because her curiosity is making it impossible to stand by while the police fail to notice the things she notices. These are not swift moving mysteries, not intensely horrific but more psychological in nature, more of a study of what people are capable of doing. I like this series because Freida is a very flawed character, has many family issues and I love watching her solve cases and find the things that are overlooked. Look forward to her next outing.
    • 4/5
      Ordinarily, I'm not much for mystery novels, and I read them only infrequently, since otherwise I get really bored with the predictable plotting, though it's not like romance stories are any less predictable and I still read those by the dozens. It may not make much logical sense, but this is how I feel. Anyway, I accepted a review request for the first book in this series, Blue Monday, sort of on a whim, and was surprised to find how much I enjoyed it. Tuesday's Gone steps up the tension of the Frieda Klein series and proves a very satisfying followup.One of the things I really liked about Blue Monday was Frieda Klein herself, and she's still awesome. Frieda's so perceptive and a bit icy on the outside. She's a great listener but loathes talking about herself, or anything getting personal. Personal relationships are hard for her, and she keeps people at a distance. What I find so delightful about Frieda is that she's not a stereotypical woman; she can't be put into a box.The mystery elements are well done, and several plot twists actually caught me completely off guard. The murder mystery is a seriously tangled web, but French pulls them together admirably. On top of the mystery arc for this installment, the big bad of the series as a whole is revealed, a person from Frieda's past. While there's not a whole lot of development with the larger arc, oh my goodness is it creepy, and I'm excited for the direction the series is headed, using the plot structure from the first two seasons of Veronica Mars, with the full series overarching plot and individual mysteries per volume. This works so well, because it keeps the reader's interest engaged in the larger story and makes reading them as standalones less desirable.The one thing I found odd was that Frieda, who's consulting with the police in this murder investigation, goes around telling freaking EVERYONE about the work she's doing. I mean, come on, Frieda! She's smart enough to know better than that. Sure, sometimes she's doing so to feel people out, but she also tells some friends, and that's just not done, or at least I don't think it is. Especially since Frieda's generally so resistant to sharing information, I found this out of place.I'm going to keep this short, since there's only so much to be said about mysteries without spoiling the plot. Basically, if you like mysteries, check out the Frieda Klein series, because it's well done, has a strong heroine, and features intriguing plot twists.
    • 3/5
      This is the second book in the detective/psychological thriller series featuring psychotherapist Dr. Frieda Klein, who is the occasional collaborator of London Detective Chief Inspector Malcolm Karlsson. There is no romantic involvement between the two, although not for want of enthusiasm among readers for the match-up.When the story opens, a social worker discovers a mentally ill woman tending to a decaying corpse. The ill woman doesn’t seem to get that the man is dead, and so she isn’t the best witness to any possible crime that was committed. This sets up the need for Inspector Karlsson to call in Frieda.As the police try to discover the identity of the corpse, and why and how he ended up dead, there are two other stories running on the side, which seemingly are not connected. Meanwhile, Frieda continues to risk her life and limb so she can find out about all these other lives, while simultaneously avoiding investigation (by herself or others) into her own. The story ends with a hint that the crimes of “Monday” and “Tuesday” are not yet resolved.Discussion: The series has a psychological/thriller aspect to it, so it is a bit dark and perverse. A scary character from the first book is part of the second as well, although this didn’t strike me as realistic.There is something else about the series that is a bit odd. The characters don’t like to expose their interior lives, and because the narrator is not an omniscient one, I often feel as if I don’t really “know” the main protagonists. This keeps me at an emotional distance from them, and prevents me from caring about them as much as I might otherwise do. Somewhat humorously in a meta sense, the dead victim in this book is a con man whose identity is a mystery. How appropriate. The books in this series can be read independently, although Tuesday’s Gone definitely is closely related to Blue Monday, and the second book would be better understood if one approached the series from the beginning. (A series of eight books featuring Dr. Klein are planned.)Note: Nicci French is the pseudonym for the writing team of husband and wife Nicci Gerrard and Sean French.
    • 5/5
      TUESDAY'S GONE is connected to the earlier novel BLUE MONDAY not just by Frieda Klein as the central character but by unfinished business that keeps cropping up, particularly the disappearance of Alan Dekker.Chapter One begins on Tuesday. The main story is that of Michelle Doyce, discovered by her social worker sitting on a sofa in her small flat next to a naked man who has obviously been dead for some time. A good deal of the plot is concerned with identifying this man and working out whether Michelle actually killed him.But there are a number of mini plots too adding to the complexity of the novel and making it a satisfying read. Freda's character gains more substance. A very readable novel with some intriguing plot lines, some of which carry over into the next in the series, WAITING FOR WEDNESDAY to be published in 2013.
    • 4/5
      Tuesday's Gone picks up around a year after the events of Blue Monday, which introduced psychiatrist Dr Frieda Klein who reluctantly became involved in a police investigation involving one of her clients and an abducted boy. In the midst of a cold London winter, DCI Karlsson asks Frieda to speak with a disturbed woman found caring for a naked, rotting corpse in her flat, unable to provide a coherent statement. Deciphering Michelle Doyce's rambling leads Freida and Karlsson's team to identify the victim as Robert Poole, but further investigation reveals the man was a scheming conman using a stolen identity. Under pressure due to looming budget cuts, the police are ordered to charge the mentally ill woman with murder and close the case but Frieda believes Michelle innocent and continues to pull at the exposed threads of the investigation.Nothing is simple in this case, as the investigation into 'Bob Poole' reveals a lonely elderly lady swindled of over a hundred thousand dollars, a young wife and mother who succumbed to his charms and a vulnerable neighbour who misses the kind man who visited her regularly. Karlsson is under pressure to ignore Frieda's suspicions but trusts her instincts that there is something more sinister happening.As well as the storyline involving the murdered confidence man, somewhere a young woman waits for the return of her lover, Karlsson is frustrated by custody issues and Josef has returned from Kiev, a broken man.February is turning out to be a bad month personally for Frieda too, she is still missing her former lover but reluctant to respond to his overtures, her niece, Chloe, is acting out, the wife of a former patient has made a formal complaint about her professionalism, the publication of a book related to a former case paints her in a bad light sparking unflattering media interest and if that wasn't enough, she feels she is being watched. Only an attentive accountant seems to offer Frieda some relief.It is Frieda's very reserved character that sets the tone for the novel. Even with so much happening in Tuesday's Gone, the story doesn't feel crowded, neither does the pace feel rushed. I thought the suspense was somewhat muted but there is a constant undercurrent of tension and I couldn't help but be intrigued by both the characters and the twists and turns of the story.Though I wish I had read Blue Monday, the first in the Frieda Klein series, before Tuesday's Gone, this novel can be read as a stand alone. With it's carefully crafted plot and interesting characters, Tuesday's Gone is an absorbing psychological thriller.
    • 3/5
      After reading this book, I looked up the author. It transpires that Nicci French is the nom de plume of a husband and wife writing team, who produce books by writing alternate chapters. This came as a surprise to me, as the book had the feel of having been produced by a computer. It has all the components of a thriller, but lacks the spark to bring it to life.Nicci French has decided that he/she/they are going to create a series of eight books - this is the second (I missed the first). There are references back to theinitial opus, but this tome does stand on its own. Our main character, Frieda Klein, is a psychotherapist who, whilst not a member of the police force, helps them on an ad hoc basis. In the best traditions of the genre, she has her own problems, which are, no doubt, due to dribble out over the octet. Perhaps it is the bifurcated nature of the authorship, but I found the characterisation to lack continuity: for some time, I could not decide as to whether Frieda was young, or old; other characters were often clichéd and lazily drawn. A series of books should give the persona dramatis time to blossom into something that, perhaps even the author, had not initially expected but, in this work, the reader is presented with an early synopsis that opens all the doors.The crime part of the story felt almost tacked on to the, Eastenders style, unrealistic personal dramas that were introduced with each character's entrance. A silly crime was compounded by an even sillier one and the attempt at making it solvable by the reader (involving picture arranging) has more holes than a lace curtain.This is not the worst book that I have ever read; if you want something frothy as a holiday read, then it is fine. If you are a crime fiction aficionado, then I would advise that you look elsewhere.