The photo shows a boy who was murdered a year ago. The Secret Place is a powerful, haunting exploration of friendship and loyalty, and a gripping addition to the Dublin Murder Squad series. ( From the publisher. The Secret Place (2014), a thriller by Tana French, follows an ambitious detective hoping to solve a local murder and join Dublin’s renowned Murder Squad. Buy The Secret Place by Tana French for 25.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. And the private underworld of teenage girls can be more mysterious and more dangerous than either of the detectives imagined. Holly’s father, Detective Frank Mackey, is circling, ready to pounce if any of the new evidence points toward his daughter.

Critics praise the book for its pacing and skillful use of dual timelines to tell the story. The fifth book in the Dublin Murder Squad series, it received various award nominations. Kilda’s will go a long way to keep murder outside their walls. The Secret Place (2014), a thriller by Tana French, follows an ambitious detective hoping to solve a local murder and join Dublin’s renowned Murder Squad. Antoinette Conway is already suspicious of Stephen’s links to the Mackey family. Every step in their direction turns up the pressure. Stephen joins forces with the abrasive Detective Antoinette Conway to find out who and why.īut everything they discover leads them back to Holly’s close-knit group of friends and their fierce enemies, a rival clique-and to the tangled web of relationships that bound all the girls to Chris Harper. Kilda’s School can pin up their secrets anonymously, is normally a mishmash of gossip and covert cruelty, but today someone has used it to reignite the stalled investigation into the murder of handsome, popular Chris Harper. “The Secret Place,” a board where the girls at St. The caption saysI KNOW WHO KILLED HIM.ĭetective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to get a foot in the door of Dublin’s Murder Squad-and one morning, sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey brings him this photo. The photo on the card shows a boy who was found murdered, a year ago, on the grounds of a girls’ boarding school in the leafy suburbs of Dublin.

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