In The Woods by Tana French

In The Woods (Dublin Murder Squad)

by Tana French

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 and 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. Then a little girl's body is found at the site of the old tragedy and Rob is drawn back into the mystery. Knowing that he would be thrown off the case if his past were revealed, Rob takes a fateful decision to keep quiet but hope that he might also solve the twenty-year-old mystery of the woods.

Reviewed by Eve1972 on

2 of 5 stars

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First the good, I really enjoy this writer's "style" of prose, it's almost poetic, if that makes sense and the story in this novel I enjoyed more then her other novel (The Likeness), but overall it still fell short for me. The most interesting of the two stories being left unsolved really disappointed me and I found one of the two main characters just truly unlikable, so ya, this was just an OK read for me....

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