I blogged about the previous (and last?) novel a few months back when I jumped up and down and shouted ‘you can’t! You can’t! You can’t!’ about the ending. Here’s the post:
Once I’d finished reading I wanted to beard the authors in their house and beat their breasts, sobbing that they must, must, must write another novel: though I resisted that temptation my thoughts must have reached them because they have – ‘Day of the Dead’ is out now and I must, must, must have it! I wonder if it’s in the library yet? (Scrabbles at keyboard) yes – it’s in the library. Unfortunately the library is in Oakham. Still I can reserve it.
And now I have! The joy of technology.
I said I wouldn’t reveal the ending of ‘Sunday Morning Coming Down’ but I think it’s OK now as it’s been out a while. I wonder how long it’ll be before somebody makes a box set of the series? I wouldn’t be surprised if negotiations were going on at this very moment – anyway, to summarise the series, Frieda Klein is a psychotherapist living alone in London. She helps others and gets involved with police cases, causing hackles to rise and making enemies along the way, but she has many fiercely loyal friends who rally to her aid when she’s in trouble – which is always. Her nemesis, Dean Reeve, is a serial killer who faked his own death by murdering his long-lost twin brother and assuming his identity before vanishing off the radar. For most of the series police believed Dean Reeve to be dead, though Frieda knew differently, and finally when her old lover Sandy is found floating in the Thames with his throat cut, they start to believe her. But Reeve is never caught and at the start of ‘Sunday’ he has murdered a policeman who was on his trail and buried the body under Frieda’s floorboards. This is hard enough to deal with, but when he begins capturing and torturing each of her friends in turn she can only find one solution: she goes to a man called Levin who has mysterious connections (probably MI5) and says, ‘Make me disappear.’
And that is the end of the book. Was it the end? They had to write another, surely?
They did.
Here’s the series:
https://www.deadgoodbooks.co.uk/frieda-klein-books-in-order/
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Sarada Gray 