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The Secret Place

by Tana French

A cold case inside a boarding school

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    New York Times bestseller

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A cold case inside a boarding school

A year after a boy is murdered at a girls’ boarding school, a note brought to Detective Stephen Moran reopens the case. Moran and Detective Antoinette Conway investigate the school’s tightly connected social world, where friendships, rivalries, and relationships all intersect with the victim. The investigation also unfolds under the scrutiny of Frank Mackey, a fellow detective and the father of one of the girls at its center. The school setting places a closed community of teenagers alongside the formal work of a murder inquiry, giving the crime story two overlapping spheres of secrets and suspicion.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in crime fiction centered on reopening an unsolved murder.
  • Readers who enjoy mysteries involving school communities, friendships, and rivalries.
  • Readers looking for a detective investigation set in Dublin.

Themes

Unsolved murderFriendship and rivalrySecrets within a close-knit communityDetective work and family ties

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Book overview

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

Read the New York Times bestseller by Tana French, author of the The Hunter and "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years" (The Washington Post).

A year ago a boy was found murdered at a girlsʼ boarding school, and the case was never solved. 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. 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.
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