The Secret Place

The Secret Place

Hardback (02 Sep 2014)

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Publisher's Synopsis

"An absolutely mesmerizing read. . . . Tana French is simply this: a truly great writer." -Gillian Flynn

Read the New York Times bestseller by Tana French, "the most interesting, most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years" (The Washington Post)--and don't miss her newest, The Trespasser, now available

In this "dizzyingly addictive"* novel, 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 a popular boy whose body was found at a girls' boarding school a year earlier. The photo had been posted at "The Secret Place," the school's anonymous gossip board, and the caption says "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.

Shortlisted for the Anthony Award for Best Novel
Shortlisted for Strand Magazine Award for Best Novel


From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780670026326
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint: Viking
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 23
Number of pages: 464
Weight: 1g
Height: 9mm
Width: 7mm
Spine width: 2mm