But when a 12-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. "Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting." ( The New York Times )Īs dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. The best-selling debut, with over a million copies sold, that launched Tana French, author of The Witch Elm and "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years" ( The Washington Post ).
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