French - and she has be required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting - make only one assumption: All of your initial assumptions are wrong -The New York Times Tana French is the most interesting, most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years. The New York Times Book Review Praise for Tana French When you read Ms. USA Today Drawn by the grim nature of her plot and the lyrical ferocity of her writing, even smart people who should know better will be able to lose themselves in these dark woods. NPR In the Woods is as creepily imaginative as it gets.
The Washington Post Part whodunit, part psychological thriller, and wholly successful.Frenchs plot twists and turns will bamboozle even the most astute reader.A well-written, expertly plotted thriller. Review Quotes ambitious and extraordinary first novel.rank it high. 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. As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. The New York Times Now airing as a Starz series.
Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting.
Book Synopsis The bestselling debut, with over a million copies sold, that launched Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher and the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years (The Washington Post). About the Book For readers who like their hard-boiled police procedurals with an international flare (USA Today), this thriller marks the debut of an astonishing new voice in psychological suspense.
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