The Secret Place by Tana French

The Secret Place by Tana French

'A gripping read for those still pining for GONE GIRL' Elle's top five beach reads The photo shows a boy who was murdered a year ago. The caption says, 'I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM'. Detective Stephen Moran hasn't seen Holly Mackey since she was a nine-year-old witness to the events of Faithful Place. Now she's sixteen and she's shown up outside his squad room, with a photograph and a story. Even in her exclusive boarding school, in the graceful golden world that Stephen has always longed for, bad things happen and people have secrets. The previous year, Christopher Harper, from the neighbouring boys' school, was found murdered on the grounds. And today, in the Secret Place - the school noticeboard where girls can pin up their secrets anonymously - Holly found the card. Solving this case could take Stephen onto the Murder squad. But to get it solved, he will have to work with Detective Antoinette Conway - tough, prickly, an outsider, everything Stephen doesn't want in a partner. And he will have to find a way into the strange, charged, mysterious world that Holly and her three closest friends inhabit and disentangle the truth from their knot of secrets, even as he starts to suspect that the truth might be something he doesn't want to hear. From the multi-award-winning author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller In the Woods, The Secret Place is a searing novel of psychological suspense.

An absolutely mesmerizing read -- Gillian Flynn, author of GONE GIRL
I've been enthusiastically telling everyone who will listen to read Tana French -- Harlan Coben
The thing Tana French does better than almost any living crime writer is create suspenseShe makes you feel as if you're the detective, and your whole future career, not to mention your mental equilibrium, depends upon working out the solution to the puzzle. The Secret Place is another nail-biting ordeal of mysteriousness that will have readers frantically turning pages in their eagerness to discover the truth -- Sophie Hannah, bestselling author of The Carrier

A gripping read for those still pining for Gone Girl

* ELLE’s Top Five Beach Reads *
A wonderfully tender and savage thriller about loyalty, teenage friendship and first loves. Gripping and ingenious -- Kate Mosse, bestselling author of Labyrinth
She's a seriously talented writer and I love her Dublin Murder Squad series. I've been eagerly awaiting this one for ages. -- Stephanie Merritt * Observer *
It's terrific - terrifying, amazing, and the prose is incandescent -- Stephen King, No. 1 bestselling author

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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ISBN 13	9781444755589
ISBN 10	1444755587
Title	The Secret Place
Author	Tana French
Series	Dublin Murder Squad
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Year published	2014-08-28
Number of pages	528
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