Dublin Murder Squad – serie

THE ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME THRILLER FROM THE MILLION-COPY, SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORNew York Times #3 best thriller of the 21st Century'To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: a truly great writer' GILLIAN FLYNN '[Crime fiction's] biggest contemporary star' GUARDIAN'One of the finest writers of contemporary crime fiction' DAILY MAIL-------------------------------------------------------Three children went into the woods to play . . .One came out.When he was twelve years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods 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, 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. But when a little girl's body is found at the site of the old tragedy, Rob is drawn back into his own haunted memories.Knowing that he would be thrown off the case if his past were revealed, Rob takes a fateful decision to keep quiet, as he begins a desperate quest to solve the twenty-year-old mystery of the woods. -------------------------------------------------------Adapted, along with The Likeness, into the iconic BBC series Dublin MurdersEDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVELANTHONY AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVELBARRY AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVELMACAVITY AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL-------------------------------------------------------Praise for the talismanic Tana French and her novels'I can do you no greater favour in life than recommending that you read her books' GUARDIAN'The most interesting, the most important crime novelist to emerge in the last ten years' WASHINGTON POST'The most breathtakingly brilliant and close-to-perfect thriller I've read for a long time' SOPHIE HANNAH'I'm a big fan of Tana French' IAN RANKIN'This is a tour de force of suspense and storytelling. Comes closer to perfection than anything I've read in the last decade' SARAH HILARY'French offers a masterclass in unreliability' SUNDAY TIMES'An audacious departure for this immensely talented author . . . not to be missed' NEW YORK TIMES 'A wonderfully assured and beautifully written debut novel' IRISH INDEPENDENT'I didn't want it to end' HARRIET TYCE

THE ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME THRILLER FROM THE MILLION-COPY, SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR'To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: a truly great writer' GILLIAN FLYNN '[Crime fiction's] biggest contemporary star' GUARDIAN'One of the finest writers of contemporary crime fiction' DAILY MAIL-------------------------------------------------------She is me. And I am her. Still traumatised by her brush with a psychopath, Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the Murder squad and starts a relationship with fellow detective Sam O'Neill.When he calls her to the scene of his new case, she is shocked to find that the murdered girl is her doppelganger. What's more, her ID shows she is Lexie Madison - the identity Cassie used, years ago, as an undercover detective.With no leads, no suspects and no clues to Lexie's real identity, Cassie's old boss spots the opportunity of a lifetime: send Cassie undercover in her place, to tempt the killer out of hiding to finish the job.-------------------------------------------------------Praise for the talismanic Tana French and her novels'Creepily melding elements of Donna Tartt's The Secret History . . . The Likeness by Tana French, seduces from the start. A nifty tale of desire for belonging, as well as a cool thriller' TIME OUT'I can do you no greater favour in life than recommending that you read her books' GUARDIAN'The most interesting, the most important crime novelist to emerge in the last ten years' WASHINGTON POST'The most breathtakingly brilliant and close-to-perfect thriller I've read for a long time' SOPHIE HANNAH'I'm a big fan of Tana French' IAN RANKIN'This is a tour de force of suspense and storytelling. Comes closer to perfection than anything I've read in the last decade' SARAH HILARY'French offers a masterclass in unreliability' SUNDAY TIMES'An audacious departure for this immensely talented author . . . not to be missed' NEW YORK TIMES 'A wonderfully assured and beautifully written debut novel' IRISH INDEPENDENT'I didn't want it to end' HARRIET TYCE

THE MASTERFUL RICHARD & JUDY PICK, FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORWINNER OF THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS CRIME FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR-------------------------------------------------------You can beat one killer. Beating your own squad is a different story . . .Being on the Dublin Murder squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed. Her working life is a stream of thankless cases and harassment. Antoinette is tough, but she's getting close to the breaking point.Her latest case looks like a lovers' quarrel gone bad. Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty and lying dead next to a table set for a romantic dinner. There's nothing unusual about her - except that Antoinette has seen her somewhere before.And her death won't stay neat. Other detectives want her to arrest Aislinn's boyfriend, fast. There's a shadowy figure at the end of Antoinette's road. And everything they find out about Aislinn takes her further from the simple woman she seemed to be.Antoinette knows the harassment has turned her paranoid, but she can't tell just how far gone she is. Is this the case that will make her career - or break it?-------------------------------------------------------Praise for the talismanic Tana French and her novels'I can do you no greater favour in life than recommending that you read her books' GUARDIAN'The most interesting, the most important crime novelist to emerge in the last ten years' WASHINGTON POST'The most breathtakingly brilliant and close-to-perfect thriller I've read for a long time' SOPHIE HANNAH'I'm a big fan of Tana French' IAN RANKIN'This is a tour de force of suspense and storytelling. Comes closer to perfection than anything I've read in the last decade' SARAH HILARY'French offers a masterclass in unreliability' SUNDAY TIMES'An audacious departure for this immensely talented author . . . not to be missed' NEW YORK TIMES'A wonderfully assured and beautifully written debut novel' IRISH INDEPENDENT'I didn't want it to end' HARRIET TYCE

'To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: a truly great writer' GILLIAN FLYNN '[Crime fiction's] biggest contemporary star' GUARDIAN'One of the finest writers of contemporary crime fiction' DAILY MAIL-------------------------------------------------------The photo shows a boy who was murdered a year ago.The caption says, 'I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM'.Detective Stephen Moran hasn't seen Holly Mackey since she was a nine-year-old witness to the events of Faithful Place. Now she's sixteen and she's shown up outside his squad room, with a photograph and a story.Even in her exclusive boarding school, terrible things can happen. The previous year, a boy from the neighbouring school, was found murdered on the grounds. And today, in the Secret Place - the school noticeboard where girls can pin up their secrets anonymously - Holly found the card.Solving this case could take Stephen onto the Murder squad. But to get it solved, he will have to work with prickly Detective Antoinette Conway. And he will have to find a way into the strange, charged, mysterious world that Holly inhabits, disentangling a twisted web of lies in the process. -------------------------------------------------------Praise for the talismanic Tana French and her novels'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 colour' TIME 'Terrific--terrifying, amazing, and the prose is incandescent' STEPHEN KING'I can do you no greater favour in life than recommending that you read her books' GUARDIAN'The most interesting, the most important crime novelist to emerge in the last ten years' WASHINGTON POST'The most breathtakingly brilliant and close-to-perfect thriller I've read for a long time' SOPHIE HANNAH'I'm a big fan of Tana French' IAN RANKIN'This is a tour de force of suspense and storytelling. Comes closer to perfection than anything I've read in the last decade' SARAH HILARY'French offers a masterclass in unreliability' SUNDAY TIMES'An audacious departure for this immensely talented author . . . not to be missed' NEW YORK TIMES 'A wonderfully assured and beautifully written debut novel' IRISH INDEPENDENT

'To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: a truly great writer' GILLIAN FLYNN'[Crime fiction's] biggest contemporary star' GUARDIAN'One of the finest writers of contemporary crime fiction' DAILY MAIL-------------------------------------------------------The course of Frank Mackey's life was set by one defining moment when he was nineteen: the moment his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed to turn up for their rendezvous in Faithful Place, failed to run away with him to London as they had agreed.Frank never heard from her again.Twenty years on and he is still in Dublin, working as an undercover cop, and has cut all ties with his dysfunctional family. Until his sister calls to say that Rosie's suitcase has been found. Stricken by the news, Frank embarks on a journey into his past that demands he reevaluate everything he believes to be true. -------------------------------------------------------Praise for the talismanic Tana French and her novels'I can do you no greater favour in life than recommending that you read her books' GUARDIAN'The most interesting, the most important crime novelist to emerge in the last ten years' WASHINGTON POST'The most breathtakingly brilliant and close-to-perfect thriller I've read for a long time' SOPHIE HANNAH'I'm a big fan of Tana French' IAN RANKIN'This is a tour de force of suspense and storytelling. Comes closer to perfection than anything I've read in the last decade' SARAH HILARY'French offers a masterclass in unreliability' SUNDAY TIMES'An audacious departure for this immensely talented author . . . not to be missed' NEW YORK TIMES'A wonderfully assured and beautifully written debut novel' IRISH INDEPENDENT'I didn't want it to end' HARRIET TYCE