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Title	:	Beneath the Skin
Author	:	Nicci French
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 419 pages
Published	:	June 1st 2001 by Warner Books (NY) (first published January 1st 1997)
Categories	:	Thriller. Fiction. Mystery. Crime

Beneath the Skin Paperback | Pages: 419 pages

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For some reason I always thought Nicci French was a female romance writer, so I always passed her books by when I saw them. Not only was I wrong about the genre, but I recently learned what I thought was a "she" is actually a husband and a wife writing team. Who knew? -(apparently everyone else but me).

BENEATH THE SKIN is a British suspense thriller told from three different points of view:

Part 1 Zoe's story- Zoe is a young teacher in her 20s, and has become a bit of a hero after she stopped a mugger by bashing him with a watermelon. She has a new boyfriend- Fred- and lives in a flat she detests.

Part 2 Jenny's story- Jenny is a well-to-do mother of three boys, and devoted wife to Clive- an undeserving husband with a wandering eye. She also is in the middle of a huge renovation of a newly purchased property.

Part 3 Nadia's story- Nadia is a newly single, charming, fun loving, unorganized, slob, who has no idea what she wants to do with her life. For now to make ends meet she uses her somewhat limited magician skills to entertain at children's parties.

Three very different woman, with one thing in common. They have all received letters from someone who wants them dead.

This book kind of creeped me out...but in a good way. It had me checking and re-checking my doors and windows to make sure they were locked tight, and as soon as I was safe and sound tucked under my snuggly blanket, I found myself reading into the wee hours of the morning.

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Original Title:	Beneath the skin ISBN13 9780446609784
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	United Kingdom

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What made (makes) this book so beautiful to me is twofold.1. The casual elegance of the writing. Nicci French (for the purpose of just plain not feeling like typing out two names, I will ignore that this is a pseudonym and just pretend it's one author) is brilliant at sketching characters that feel like real people and for using spare, simple and yet beautiful prose. I really love her style and always have. It's especially evident in her earlier works and now in the Frieda Klein series.2. The

When I wrote a story in school I finished it with 'and then I died', My Teacher was quick to point out 'so how did you write this?? ' in big red letters. It's stuck with me for 30 odd years and I HATE it when writers do it (spoiler if I go further but you will know it when you see it). Apart from that it's the usual Nicci French thriller that messes with your mind. Good

Beneath the Skin is my second book by the husband and wife team, Nicci Gerrrad and Sean French, who go by the pseudonym Nicci French. Its about three women from different walks of life, who receive anonymous letters threatening to kill them. The women seemingly have nothing in common. But whoever penned their letters described personal details, which made you think that the person must obviously be in very close proximity. Despite the women being closely guarded, the perpetrator still managed to

Nicci French, Beneath the Skin (1999, Warner)Think of Nicci French as the darker, rougher side of Judith Michael--a collaboration between two folks, one male, one female, on some very nasty mysteries. In this case, the main character (though he gets relatively little screen time) is a serial killer who enjoys stalking his victims, leaving them love notes, outwitting the police, that sort of thing. Your typical above-average-intelligence serial killer. We see him, and the police trying to catch

Zoe, Jennifer, Nadia; sisters; but not sisters. Zoe, the teacher, just wants to sell her flat and live quietly. But she thwarts a mugging one day, using, of all things, a watermelon as her weapon. For a time, the public focuses on her. She is a hero among the cops in her neighborhood. Unfortunately, Zoe is the recipient of letters that clearly indicate that the writer wants her to die. Law enforcement does nothing; Zoe is murdered.Jenny lives opulently, is highly organized, and is working at

super good fun, reading Nicci French always feels a bit like a feverish dream to me. Everyone around the protagonist is always so unhelpful, unsympathetic, unprofessional, inappropriate. No one does what they're supposed to. There's a million red herrings to muddy the water but real clues are few and far between, dropped inconsistently or perhaps deliberately withheld. I like a good twist to make you look back and think "oh of course. I didn't think anything of that at the time but it makes

Usually three part novels irritate me. It takes me 50 pages to get into something, then I get to the end of Act 1, and Act 2 is a completely new story and I have to invest that start-up time again. This happened with Beneath the Skin but it was worth it, and by the time I got to Act 3, the pieces fitted together really well.Three different women, three different viewpoints, each with growing tension from a series of threatening letters with some comedy and sex thrown in. What more do you want?A serial killer targets three women and the book is comprised of the three different stories of these women.This is not your typical serial killer book because the focus is on the victims and written from each of their points of view.It made a nice change to see and feel what they did rather than following a detective with his/her own problems and agenda chasing after an elusive killer.The women were very different and the author captured the different voices perfectly. Instead of coming away