Thursday's Children: A Frieda Klein Mystery

When the mother of an anorexic teenager asks Frieda Klein for help, the eccentric psychotherapist quickly discovers that an eating disorder is only the outward manifestation of a far more serious crime, one that mirrors an incident in Frieda's own troubled past and compels her to travel from London to her hometown in Suffolk. There, her former classmates, an odd assortment long ago abandoned by her without explanation, are about to gather for a reunion. Before she can get far in her investigation of the teen's apparent suicide that may be murder, Frieda learns that her own mother, from whom she has long been estranged, is dying from a brain tumor. Trying to track down the man responsible for horrible crimes past and present, Frieda must confront not only numerous suspects known more than 20 years earlier but also the current disarray in her own life.