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The Secret Place by Tana French
The sensational new novel from one of the most talented crime writers alive (The Washington Post)The photo on the card shows a boy who was found murdered, a year ago, on the grounds of a girls' boarding school in the leafy suburbs of Dublin. The caption saysI KNOW WHO KILED HIM.
Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to get a foot in the door of Dublin's Murder Squad--and one morning, sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey brings him this photo. The Secret Place, a board where the girls at St. Kilda's School can pin up their secrets anonymously, is normally a mishmash of gossip and covert cruelty, but today someone has used it to reignite the stalled investigation into the murder of handsome, popular Chris Harper. Stephen joins forces with the abrasive Detective Antoinette Conway to find out who and why.
But everything they discover leads them back to Holly's close-knit group of friends and their fierce enemies, a rival clique--and to the tangled web of relationships
that bound all the girls to Chris Harper. Every step in their direction turns up the pressure. Antoinette Conway is already suspicious of Stephen's links to the Mackey family. St. Kilda's will go a long way to keep murder outside their walls. Holly's father, Detective Frank Mackey, is circling, ready to pounce if any of the new evidence points toward his daughter. And the private underworld of teenage girls can be more mysterious and more dangerous than either of the detectives imagined.
The Secret Place is a powerful, haunting exploration of friendship and loyalty, and a gripping addition to the Dublin Murder Squad series.
Tana French was born in Ireland and raised in Ireland, Italy, the United States, and Malawi until settling in Dublin in 1990. She studied professional acting at Trinity College in Dublin and has experience in theater, cinema, and voiceover. Faithful Place, The Likeness, and In the Woods, which won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards for best debut novel, are her works. Her spouse and daughter reside with her in Dublin.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780143127512 |
| ISBN 10 | 0143127519 |
| Title | The Secret Place |
| Author | Tana French |
| Series | Dublin Murder Squad |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2015-08-04 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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