Sean and Nicci were married in Hackney in October 1990. During that time he also worked at the Sunday Times as deputy literary editor and television critic, and was the film critic for Marie Claire and deputy editor of New Society. In 1981 he won Vogue magazine's Writing Talent Contest, and from 1981 to 1986 he was their theatre critic. He too studied English Literature at Oxford University at the same time as Nicci, also graduating with a first class degree, but their paths didn't cross until 1990. Sean French was born in May 1959 in Bristol, to a British father and Swedish mother. It was while she was at the New Statesman that she met Sean French. In 1989 she became acting literary editor at the New Statesman, before moving to the Observer, where she was deputy literary editor for five years, and then a feature writer and executive editor. In 1987 Nicci had a son, Edgar, followed by a daughter, Anna, in 1988, but a year later her marriage to Colin Hughes broke down. In the early eighties she taught English Literature in Sheffield, London and Los Angeles, but moved into publishing in 1985 with the launch of Women's Review, a magazine for women on art, literature and female issues. In that same year she married journalist Colin Hughes. After graduating with a first class honours degree in English Literature from Oxford University, she began her first job, working with emotionally disturbed children in Sheffield.
Nicci Gerrard was born in June 1958 in Worcestershire. Note: ( Nicci Gerrard and Sean French also write separately.) She must chase down the darkest paths of a psychopath's mind to find the answers to Matthew Farraday's whereabouts.Īnd sometimes the mind is the deadliest place to lose yourself. Before long, Frieda is at the center of the race to track the kidnapper.īut her race isn't physical. A child he can describe in perfect detail, a child the spitting image of Matthew.ĭetective Chief Inspector Karlsson doesn't take Frieda's concerns seriously until a link emerges with an unsolved child abduction twenty years ago and he summons Frieda to interview the victim's sister, hoping she can stir hidden memories. And when a picture of his face is splashed over the newspapers, psychotherapist Frieda Klein is left troubled: one of her patients has been relating dreams in which he has a hunger for a child.
The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes a national outcry and a desperate police hunt. A day to snatch a child from the streets.
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