The bestselling debut, with over a million copies sold, that launched TanaFrench, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher and "the most importantcrime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years" (The Washington Post). "Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough ...The bestselling debut, with over a million copies sold, that launched TanaFrench, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher and "the most importantcrime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years" (The Washington Post). "Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligenceand ingenious plotting." —The New York Times Now airing as a Starz series.
As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers beginto call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do notreturn from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find onlyone of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filledsneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours.
Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the DublinMurder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl isfound murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox—his partnerand closest friend—find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar tothe previous unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried memoriesto guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the casebefore him and that of his own shadowy past.
Richly atmospheric and stunning in its complexity, In the Woods is utterlyconvincing and surprising to the end.