Zusatztext An intricate and edgy top-notch psychological thriller. Informationen zum Autor Tana French grew up in Ireland, Italy, the United States and Malawi. She is the author of In the Woods (winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and Barry awards for Best First Novel), The Likeness , Faithful Place , Broken Harbour (winner of the LA Times prize for Best Mystery/Thriller) and The Secret Place . She lives in Dublin with her husband and two children. She keeps a website at www.tanafrench.com Klappentext MURDER BRINGS BACK MEMORIES . . . You're twelve years old. You're playing in th woods with your two best friends. Something terrible happens. And the other two are never seen again. Twenty years on, Rob Ryan - the child who came back - is a detective in the Dublin police force. He's changed his name. No one knows about his past. Even he has no memory of what happened that day. Then a little girl's body is found at the site of the old tragedy and Rob is drawn back into the mystery. For him and his DI partner, Cassie, every lead comes with sinister undercurrents. Rob's own private enquiries are taking a toll on his mind. And every trail leads inexorably back . . . into the woods. 'This astonishing first novel weaves a web of intrigue to confound even the most astute: and its denouement, swift, shocking and sublimely executed, will remain with the reader long after the final page has been turned.' Sunday Indepedent [thumbnail images of The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbour, The Secret Place] Zusammenfassung A stunningly accomplished psychological mystery which will take you on a thrilling journey through a tangled web of evil and beyond - to the inexplicable.

An intricate and edgy top-notch psychological thriller.

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A stunningly accomplished psychological mystery which will take you on a thrilling journey through a tangled web of evil and beyond - to the inexplicable.

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Tana French grew up in Ireland, Italy, the United States and Malawi. She is the author of In the Woods (winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and Barry awards for Best First Novel), The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbour (winner of the LA Times prize for Best Mystery/Thriller) and The Secret Place. She lives in Dublin with her husband and two children. She keeps a website at www.tanafrench.com

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MURDER BRINGS BACK MEMORIES . . .

You're twelve years old. You're playing in th woods with your two best friends. Something terrible happens. And the other two are never seen again.

Twenty years on, Rob Ryan - the child who came back - is a detective in the Dublin police force. He's changed his name. No one knows about his past. Even he has no memory of what happened that day. Then a little girl's body is found at the site of the old tragedy and Rob is drawn back into the mystery. For him and his DI partner, Cassie, every lead comes with sinister undercurrents. Rob's own private enquiries are taking a toll on his mind.

And every trail leads inexorably back . . . into the woods.

'This astonishing first novel weaves a web of intrigue to confound even the most astute: and its denouement, swift, shocking and sublimely executed, will remain with the reader long after the final page has been turned.' Sunday Indepedent

[thumbnail images of The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbour, The Secret Place]