This is none of Ireland’s subtle seasons mixed for a connoisseur’s palate, watercolor nuances within a pinch-sized range of cloud and soft rain this is summer full-throated and extravagant in a hot pure silkscreen blue. Picture a summer stolen whole from some coming-of-age film set in small-town 1950s.

'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Richly atmospheric and stunning in its complexity, In the Woods is utterly convincing and surprising to the end. 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. 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. Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. 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.

But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. The perfect holiday gift for mystery lovers.Īs dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. “Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting.” - The New York Times The bestselling debut, with over a million copies sold, that launched Tana French, author of The Witch Elm and “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” ( The Washington Post).

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