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Zusatztext An intricate and edgy top-notch psychological thriller. Informationen zum Autor Tana French grew up in Ireland! Italy! the US and Malawi! and has lived in Dublin since 1990. She trained as an actress at Trinity College! Dublin! and has worked in theatre! film and voiceover. IN THE WOODS is her first novel. Klappentext When he was twelve years old! Adam Ryan went playing in the woods one sunny day with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found! and Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree and his shoes filled with blood. He had no memory of what had happened. Twenty years later Adam -- now using his middle name of Rob -- is a detective with the Dublin police force. His colleagues don't know about his past. He works as a team with Cassie Maddox! a smart! tough cookie; they are best friends as well as partners. When the body of a young girl is found at the site of an archaeological dig! Rob and Cassie get the case. And when they reach the crime scene! Rob realises it is the exact site of his childhood trauma. They also find a hairclip that he recognises as having belonged to his friend. Could there be a connection between that old! unsolved crime and this? Knowing that he would be thrown off the case if his past were revealed! Rob takes a fateful decision to keep quiet. Rob and Cassie are investigating the murder of Katy Devlin! but they both hope that they might also solve the twenty-year-old mystery of the woods. A stunningly accomplished psychological mystery which will take you on a thrilling journey through a tangled web of evil and beyond - to the inexplicable. Zusammenfassung When he was twelve years old! Adam Ryan went playing in the woods one day with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found! and Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree and his shoes filled with blood. He had no memory of what had happened. 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. Then a little girl's body is found at the site of the old tragedy and Rob is drawn back into the mystery. Knowing that he would be thrown off the case if his past were revealed! Rob takes a fateful decision to keep quiet but hope that he might also solve the twenty-year-old mystery of the woods. ...
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Sharply written and insidiously creepy, this is a mesmerising read that grabs hold of the reader from the very first page and doesn't let go until well past two in the morning. The Times
