Thursday's Children (Frieda Klein Series, Book #4) by Nicci French
Thursday's Children (Frieda Klein Series, Book #4) by Nicci French
Frieda Klein is uninterested in idle chitchat when her former classmate, Maddie Capel, shows up at her door -- until she hears about Maddie's troubled daughter, Becky. The teenager claims that she was raped in her own bed one night while her mother was downstairs watching television. Her assailant left her with a a warning: Don't think of telling anyone, sweetheart. Nobody will believe you." And no one does -- except Frieda. Soon after, Becky is found hanging from a beam in her bedroom.
Becky's story awakens Frieda's own difficult memories that she's been avoiding for decades. Against all her usual reservations, Frieda returns home determined to find Becky's killer and the answer to her own dark secret. But confronting the ghosts of the past turns out to be more dangerous than she ever expected.
Penguin Books, Softcover, 2014