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1. In the woods

   • Tana French

   • 429pagine
   • 16 ore di lettura

   As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours. Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox—his partner and closest friend—find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past. Richly atmospheric, stunning in its complexity, and utterly convincing and surprising to the end, In the Woods is sure to enthrall fans of Mystic River and The Lovely Bones.

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2. La somiglianza

   • Katia Bagnoli

   • 547pagine
   • 20 ore di lettura

   L'ex detective della sezione 'Infiltrati' di Dublino Cassie Maddox viene convocata con urgenza dal suo vecchio capo Frank Mackey: una giovane donna è stata trovata uccisa, pugnalata al petto, in un cottage diroccato della campagna irlandese. Sembrerebbe un caso di routine, se non fosse che la vittima somiglia in modo impressionante a Cassie e che se ne andava in giro con un'identità fittizia, facendosi chiamare Lexie Madison. Il nome non è per niente nuovo a Cassie: nella sua prima missione, appena uscita dalla facoltà di psicologia, lo aveva usato come copertura allo scopo di infiltrarsi in un giro di trafficanti di droga all'interno del campus universitario. Della giovane donna trovata morta si sa solo che stava seguendo un dottorato in letteratura e che viveva in un'antica residenza georgiana, Whitethorn House, con altri quattro studenti. Ma chi era esattamente? Perché usava il nome di Lexie Madison? E l'assassino conosceva la sua vera identità o l'ha scambiata per la poliziotta? Cassie decide così di accettare la proposta di Frank e tornare a indossare i panni di Lexie, prendendo il posto della ragazza - senza divulgare la notizia della sua morte -, in modo da avvicinare le persone che frequentava e identificare i sospetti. Ma ben presto scoprirà di avere in comune con lei molto più del volto e di un nome falso...

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3. Faithful Place

   • Tana French

   The course of Frank Mackey's life was set by one defining moment when he was nineteen. The moment his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed to turn up for their rendezvous in Faithful Place, failed to run away with him to London as they had planned. Frank never heard from her again. Twenty years on, Frank is still in Dublin, working as an undercover cop. He's cut all ties with his dysfunctional family. Until his sister calls to say that Rosie's suitcase has been found. Frank embarks on a journey into his past that demands he reevaluate everything he believes to be true.

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4. Broken Harbour

   • Tana French

   In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin, two children and their father are dead. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case and at first he thinks it's simple: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, and himself. But there are too many inexplicable details and the evidence is pointing in two directions at once. Scorcher's finding that the neat compartments of his life are now rapidly breaking down, and the sudden tangle of work and family is putting both at risk.

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5. The Secret Place

   • 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.

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6. The trespasser

   • Tana French

   You can beat one killer. Beating your own squad is a whole other thing. The case that will make Detective Antoinette Conway's murder squad career. Or break it.A searing novel of psychological suspense from the multi-award-winning author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller In the Woods.

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