

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. The Secret Place splits its focus between Frank Mackeys young girl, Holly, who has now grown into a young woman and Detective Stephen Moran (from Faithful Place) who is compelled to reopen a murder case gone cold when Holly presents him with a newly discovered, opaque clue. In The Secret Place by Tana French (Dublin Murder Squad, Book 5), Detective Stephen Moran sees a shot at a promotion when Holly Mackey, a student from St. 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 the boy with the caption: “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. Kildas 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.


'The Secret Place,' a board where the girls at St. Read the New York Times bestseller by Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher and “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” ( The Washington Post).Ī year ago a boy was found murdered at a girlsʼ boarding school, and the case was never solved. Viking, 27.95 (464p) ISBN 978-2-6 In French’s mesmerizing fifth Dublin Murder Squad mystery (after 2012’s Broken Harbor ), Det. The secret place by French, Tana, author. Tana French is simply this: a truly great writer.” -Gillian Flynn
