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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Many books aspire to be "thrillers", but this book delivers. It's intelligent, fast paced, and keeps you guessing till the end. Having read one other work of this literary duo, and I will certainly be seeking out others. (  )2   danielx | Jul 5, 2009 |  This was an interesting mystery. I liked how the clues were revealed bit by bit as Kit tried to discover the truth about the canal killings. (  ) krin5292 | Jan 13, 2008 | Kit Quinn, our heroine, is a psychologist dealing with the criminally insane. In the opening chapter we see her evaluating a suspect at a police station. She is attacked and injured... Some months later she gets drawn into a murder case that has her attacker, again, as the main suspect. Reluctantly she gets involved. Kit refuses to believe the obvious solution and finds other suspects and links to other murders. The police does not believe her conclusions and everybody begins to think that she can't deal with the stress so shortly after her injury. But she insists and finds not only proof, but also danger... Set in London, in the world of street kids, the people that want to help them and others that prey on them... Good story, suspenseful, I never guessed the solution until the end (but then I never do) -I just felt that French wrappped up the ending a bit to quick. It was a bit like "Oh, that's the killer!" and, oops, we're done... Nice change after the usual thriller fare that I have read recently. (  ) cathepsut | Apr 23, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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But The Red Room is a change of pace that is reminiscent of Frances Fyfield, only without her stylistic quirks. It also asks a lot of the reader in imagining the deliberately obtuse or arrogant ways in which the police sometimes interfere in the lives of those not on the public payroll.
In this case, the two people whose lives are being most unfairly manipulated hold opposite, even antagonistic, places in society. One is a clinical psychologist, Katherine Quinn; the other, Michael Doll, is the troubled young man who not long ago left her with terrible facial disfigurement, having suddenly attacked her while undergoing an evaluation in his jail cell. Somehow, out of curiosity, misplaced duty, and a desire to try to "reduce him to his human size," Kit Quinn allows a police detective to talk her into seeing Michael once again. This time her nemesis--about whom she has recurring nightmares of a blood-spattered red room--stands accused of murder. The trouble is, after coming face to face with him, Dr. Quinn isn't at all convinced he's guilty.
Nicci French has better success with the setup of this suspenseful, twisty situation than she does with its resolution. But The Red Room provides superior entertainment, with a complex and all-too-human heroine at the center of its drama. --Otto Penzler
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