Nicci French

With each chilling installment, a growing readership is drawn to brilliant and solitary London psychotherapist Frieda Klein. And in Thursday's Children, confronting the ghosts of the past turns out to be more dangerous than Frieda ever expected.

Alice is a London website designer who decides to get out of a comfortable, but ordinary relationship with her boyfriend. She then forms a dangerously obsessive bond with a handsome, but mysterious mountaineer, who turns out to have some secrets he wishes Alice had never discovered.