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by Tana French
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The Crime Scene
The Crime Scene rated it 11 years ago
In The Woods is the first novel in the Dublin Murder Squad series by author Tana French. Dublin detectives Roy Ryan and Cassie Maddox are called in to investigate when a twelve year old girl is found murdered on an archaeological site before a new motorway is built over it. The case is personal fo...
Listening to the Silence
Listening to the Silence rated it 11 years ago
Three kids disappear into the woods as they do every day. Only one came out and he can't speak of what happened. As an adult, Rob, has changed his name and now serves as a detective on the elite Dublin Murder Squad. When he and his partner Cassie catch a new case of a murdered child in the town wher...
Liz Loves Books.Com.
Liz Loves Books.Com. rated it 11 years ago
Available Now from Hodder and Staughton Source: Owned copy. As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one...
JennyJen
JennyJen rated it 11 years ago
*No SpoilersSo much sadness in my heart.This is hard, writing this review. I keep starting and scrapping. I have lots of feelings, but I don't know if I will convey them properly. This is going to be short and disjointed. It cannot be helped. I'll start with the fact that I didn't like this book for...
Heidi Hart
Heidi Hart rated it 11 years ago
Toward the end of the book, the narrator goes out with a woman who tells him (by way of kiss-off), "I'm old enough to know the difference between intriguing and fucked up. You should date younger women. They can't always tell." The problem is that Tana French doesn't seem to recognize this differenc...
Musings of a Bibliomaniac
Musings of a Bibliomaniac rated it 11 years ago
It's been a while since I have read a book that has left me so utterly devastated, a book entailing such a profound emotional investment that having finished it I feel a gaping emptiness within, a sense of loss. It feels like my heart has been simultaneously crushed into pulp under the weight of the...
La Mala *the mean girl*
La Mala *the mean girl* rated it 11 years ago
4.5Le bajo puntuaciĆ³n porque no tarde en darme cuenta quien era "el asesino misterioso" .... DespuĆ©s , el resto es perfecto . Un protagonista complejo , original , intrigante y con el cual es casi imposible simpatizar (al menos en mi caso ) , lo cual aumenta su atractivo y el misterio que lo rodea .
The Blogging of a Book Addict
The Blogging of a Book Addict rated it 11 years ago
Believe it or not, this was an assigned reading in my college honors english class. Before you read any further, you should know that it is, without a doubt, my favorite thing I've ever read for school, and I have read a LOT for school (I'm the nerd who took extra english classes in high school just...
Stop Making Sense
Stop Making Sense rated it 12 years ago
DH and I are going to Ireland next year, so I thought I would read some fiction set there just to get a taste of the culture, writing, etc. What a novel to start with!As a child, Dublin Detective Rob Ryan was the only witness (and surviving victim) of a crime that claimed his two best friends. Too b...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 12 years ago
bookshelves: mystery-thriller, britain-ireland, published-2007 Read in July, 2008 I bought this whilst in Dublin as it was billed as a murder mystery, which indeed it is, and based in Knockmaree that has become a city suburb since the rising of the Celtic Dragon. At certain points the story beca...
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