The Secret Place: A Novel (Dublin Murder Squad) Paperback – August 4, 2015 by Tana French

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Author: French Tana

Brand: Penguin Books

Color: White

Edition: Reprint

Features:

• Penguin Books

Package Dimensions: 45x214x390

Number Of Pages: 480

Release Date: 04-08-2015

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“An absolutely mesmerizing read. . . . Tana French is simply this: a truly great writer.” —Gillian Flynn

Read the New York Times bestseller by 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).

A year ago a boy was found murdered at a girlsʼ boarding school, and the case was never solved. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to join Dublin’s Murder Squad when sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey arrives in his office with a photo of the boy with the caption: “I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM.” Stephen joins with Detective Antoinette Conway to reopen the case—beneath the watchful eye of Holly’s father, fellow detective Frank Mackey. With the clues leading back to Holly’s close-knit group of friends, to their rival clique, and to the tangle of relationships that bound them all to the murdered boy, the private underworld of teenage girls turns out to be more mysterious and more dangerous than the detectives imagined.
Review
“an absolutely mesmerizing read.”

—Gillian Flynn

“a book full of giddy, slangy, devious schoolgirls who cannot be trusted about anything, at least not on the first, second, third or fourth rounds of questioning…Part of this book’s trickiness is its way of letting characters hide the truth behind the smoke screen of language and let both readers and investigators gradually figure out who is lying.”
—
Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“There are echoes of Leopold and Loeb and Donna Tartt’s
The Secret History, but the language and landscape are unmistakably French’s, as is the way she excavates the past to illuminate the present.”
—
O Magazine

“Terrific—terrifying, amazing, and the prose is incandescent.”

—Stephen King

“Tana French is irrefutably one of the best crime fiction writers out there…[The Secret Place is] dizzyingly addictive…don’t miss this one.”
—
The
Associated Press*

“clever and crude and vulgar and vicious in one breath and deeply, profoundly tragic in the next.”

—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

“French is such a gorgeous writer: She’s a poet of mood and a master builder of plots . . .
The Secret Place is another eerie triumph for French.”

—Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post

“French pegs each [character] with cold, cruel precision, one by one, like a knife thrower popping balloons…it makes the world of
The Secret Place pop into prickly-sharp focus and full color
.”— Lev Grossman, Time

“
The Secret Place will keep you up all night.”
—
Bustle.com
“
The Secret Place may be French’s best novel yet and that’s saying something. She’s that good.”
—
The New York Daily News

“rendered vividly, with sharp dialogue and finely observed detail.”
—
The Wall Street Journal

“
Gone Girl fans will revel in this enthralling thriller.”
—
People

“[Tana French’s] mysteries are less procedurals and more thoughtful, smart, stunningly clever and well-written literary yarns.”
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USA Today

“A twisting, teasing, and tense murder mystery that, while impressive in the matter of whodunit, soars on the psychological insights of whydunit.
The Secret Place rips you to shreds, too, but in all the right ways. While channeling teens and cops alike, Tana French has – OMG, like, totes, amazeball – written a novel that seems all but certain to be among the best mysteries of the year”
—
The Christian Science Monitor
“
The Secret Place is Tana French’s latest extraordinary procedural… French’s plots are inventive and her prose is elegant, but she’s always been more interested in character development. Here, her steely gaze brilliantly nails the baffled and baffling emotions of teenagers on the verge of adulthood.”
—
The Seattle Times

“French…writes beautifully.”
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The Boston Globe

“
The Secret Place is an absorbing take on a hot subgenre by one of our most skillful suspense novelists.”
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Popmatters.com

“[Tana