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The Hunter (Paperback)
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It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die.
Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He’s found it, more or less: he’s built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he’s gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places. But then Trey’s long-absent father reappears, bringing along an English millionaire and a scheme to find gold in the townland, and suddenly everything the three of them have been building is under threat. Cal and Lena are both ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey, but Trey doesn’t want protecting. What she wants is revenge.
From the writer who is “in a class by herself,” (The New York Times), a nuanced, atmospheric tale that explores what we’ll do for our loved ones, what we’ll do for revenge, and what we sacrifice when the two collide.
Former Chicago cop Cal Hooper has settled into life in a small
Irish village, restoring furniture with his young friend Trey and
sharing occasional nights with the fiercely independent Lena. But
the reappearance of Trey's feckless father sends fissures through
the fragile bonds of family that have started to form between the
three of them - and brings a new threat to the town itself. So just
how much will they compromise to protect - and avenge - the people
they love?
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The Hunter - A Novel
Tana French
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'Absolutely mesmerising' Gillian Flynn, author of Sharp Objects and
Gone Girl The photo shows a boy who was murdered a year ago. The
caption says, 'I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM'. Detective Stephen Moran
hasn't seen Holly Mackey since she was a nine-year-old witness to
the events of Faithful Place. Now she's sixteen and she's shown up
outside his squad room, with a photograph and a story. Even in her
exclusive boarding school, in the graceful golden world that
Stephen has always longed for, bad things happen and people have
secrets. The previous year, Christopher Harper, from the
neighbouring boys' school, was found murdered on the grounds. And
today, in the Secret Place - the school noticeboard where girls can
pin up their secrets anonymously - Holly found the card. Solving
this case could take Stephen onto the Murder squad. But to get that
solved, he will have to work with Detective Antoinette Conway -
tough, prickly, an outsider, everything Stephen doesn't want in a
partner. And he will have to find a way into the strange, charged,
mysterious world that Holly and her three closest friends inhabit
and disentangle the truth from their knot of secrets, even as he
starts to suspect that the truth might be something he doesn't want
to hear.
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Broken Harbour (Paperback)
Tana French; Edited by (general) Ciara Considine
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In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built,
half-inhabited, half-abandoned - two children and their father are
dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy
is given the case because he is the Murder squad's star detective.
At first he and his rookie partner, Richie, think this is a simple
one: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his
children, tried to kill his wife Jenny, and finished off with
himself. But there are too many inexplicable details and the
evidence is pointing in two directions at once. Scorcher's personal
life is tugging for his attention. Seeing the case on the news has
sent his sister Dina off the rails again, and she's resurrecting
something that Scorcher thought he had tightly under control: what
happened to their family, one summer at Broken Harbour, back when
they were children. The neat compartments of his life are breaking
down, and the sudden tangle of work and family is putting both at
risk ...
A New York Times Bestseller A New York Times and NPR Best Book of
2020 "This hushed suspense tale about thwarted dreams of escape may
be her best one yet...its own kind of masterpiece." --Maureen
Corrigan, The Washington Post A "taut, chiseled and propulsive"
(Vogue) new novel from the bestselling mystery writer who "is in a
class by herself." (The New York Times) Cal Hooper thought a
fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape.
After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising
divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a
good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose
brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal
uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and
starts to realize that even small towns shelter dangerous secrets.
"One of the greatest crime novelists writing today" (Vox) weaves a
masterful, atmospheric tale of suspense, asking what we sacrifice
in our search for truth and justice, and what we risk if we don't.
The masterful Richard & Judy pick, from the Sunday Times
bestselling author. Winner of the Irish Book Awards Crime Fiction
Book of the Year. 'A TRULY GREAT WRITER' Gillian Flynn, author of
Gone Girl 'ONE OF THE BEST CRIME WRITERS WORKING TODAY' Guardian
You can beat one killer. Beating your own squad is a whole other
thing. Being on the Dublin Murder squad is nothing like Detective
Antoinette Conway dreamed. Her working life is a stream of
thankless cases and harassment. Antoinette is tough, but she's
getting close to the breaking point. The new case looks like a
regular lovers' quarrel gone bad. Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty
and lying dead next to a table set for a romantic dinner. There's
nothing unusual about her - except that Antoinette has seen her
somewhere before. And her death won't stay neat. Other detectives
want her to arrest Aislinn's boyfriend, fast. There's a shadowy
figure at the end of Antoinette's road. And everything they find
out about Aislinn takes her further from the simple woman she
seemed to be. Antoinette knows the harassment has turned her
paranoid, but she can't tell just how far gone she is. Is this the
case that will make her career - or break it? 'ONE OF THE BEST
THRILLER WRITERS WE HAVE' Observer
'A gripping read for those still pining for GONE GIRL' Elle's top
five beach reads The photo shows a boy who was murdered a year ago.
The caption says, 'I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM'. Detective Stephen Moran
hasn't seen Holly Mackey since she was a nine-year-old witness to
the events of Faithful Place. Now she's sixteen and she's shown up
outside his squad room, with a photograph and a story. Even in her
exclusive boarding school, in the graceful golden world that
Stephen has always longed for, bad things happen and people have
secrets. The previous year, Christopher Harper, from the
neighbouring boys' school, was found murdered on the grounds. And
today, in the Secret Place - the school noticeboard where girls can
pin up their secrets anonymously - Holly found the card. Solving
this case could take Stephen onto the Murder squad. But to get it
solved, he will have to work with Detective Antoinette Conway -
tough, prickly, an outsider, everything Stephen doesn't want in a
partner. And he will have to find a way into the strange, charged,
mysterious world that Holly and her three closest friends inhabit
and disentangle the truth from their knot of secrets, even as he
starts to suspect that the truth might be something he doesn't want
to hear. From the multi-award-winning author of Sunday Times and
New York Times bestseller In the Woods, The Secret Place is a
searing novel of psychological suspense.
'Terrific - terrifying, amazing' STEPHEN KING 'Completely,
indescribably magnificent' MARIAN KEYES ----- A DISAPPEARANCE. A
SMALL TOWN. A QUESTION THAT NEEDS ANSWERING... Cal Hooper thought a
fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape.
After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force, and a bruising
divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a
good pub where nothing much happens. But then a local kid comes
looking for his help. His brother has gone missing, and no one,
least of all the police, seems to care. Cal wants nothing to do
with any kind of investigation, but somehow he can't make himself
walk away. Soon Cal will discover that even in the most idyllic
small town, secrets lie hidden, people aren't always what they
seem, and trouble can come calling at his door. A gripping tale of
breath-taking beauty and suspense that asks how we decide what's
right and wrong in a world where neither is simple, and what we
risk if we fail. WINTER RICHARD AND JUDY BOOKCLUB PICK THE SUNDAY
TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2021 THE TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR
2021 FT BEST BOOK OF 2020 THE GUARDIAN BEST CRIME AND THRILLER BOOK
OF 2020 THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE YEAR 2020 ----- 'I'm a big fan of
Tana French' IAN RANKIN 'I didn't want it to end' HARRIET TYCE 'To
say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too
limiting. Rather she's simply this: a truly great writer' GILLIAN
FLYNN 'Immersive and atmospheric ... Cal and Trey could very well
be the new sort of heroes we need in this strange world' ARAMINTA
HALL 'This is a tour de force of suspense and storytelling. Comes
closer to perfection than anything I've read in the last decade'
SARAH HILARY 'The Searcher is its own kind of masterpiece'
WASHINGTON POST 'One of the most compulsive psychological mysteries
since Donna Tartt's The Secret History' THE TIMES 'French offers a
masterclass in unreliability' SUNDAY TIMES '[Crime fiction's]
biggest contemporary star' GUARDIAN 'One of the finest writers of
contemporary crime fiction' THE DAILY MAIL 'An audacious departure
for this immensely talented author . . . not to be missed' THE NEW
YORK TIMES 'Nuanced and compelling' THE NEW YORKER
The bestselling debut, with over a million copies sold, that
launched 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). "Required reading for anyone who
appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious
plotting." -The New York Times Now airing as a Starz series. 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 of the children
gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and
unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours. Twenty
years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin
Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a
twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and
Detective Cassie Maddox-his partner and closest friend-find
themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous
unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories
to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of
the case before him and that of his own shadowy past. Richly
atmospheric and stunning in its complexity, In the Woods is utterly
convincing and surprising to the end.
The bestselling novel by Tana French, author of the forthcoming
novel The Searcher, is "required reading for anyone who appreciates
tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting" (The New
York Times). She "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New
Yorker) and is "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the
past 10 years" (The Washington Post). "Atmospheric and
unputdownable." -People In bestselling author Tana French's newest
"tour de force" (The New York Times), being on the Murder Squad is
nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. Her
partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she's
there. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases,
vicious pranks, and harassment. Antoinette is savagely tough, but
she's getting close to the breaking point. Their new case looks
like yet another by-the-numbers lovers' quarrel gone bad. Aislinn
Murray is blond, pretty, groomed-to-a-shine, and dead in her
catalog-perfect living room, next to a table set for a romantic
dinner. There's nothing unusual about her-except that Antoinette's
seen her somewhere before. And that her death won't stay in its
neat by-numbers box. Other detectives are trying to push Antoinette
and Steve into arresting Aislinn's boyfriend, fast. There's a
shadowy figure at the end of Antoinette's road. Aislinn's friend is
hinting that she knew Aislinn was in danger. And everything they
find out about Aislinn takes her further from the glossy, passive
doll she seemed to be. Antoinette knows the harassment has turned
her paranoid, but she can't tell just how far gone she is. Is this
case another step in the campaign to force her off the squad, or
are there darker currents flowing beneath its polished surface?
The course of Frank Mackey's life was set by one defining moment
when he was nineteen. The moment his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed
to turn up for their rendezvous in Faithful Place, failed to run
away with him to London as they had planned. Frank never heard from
her again. Twenty years on, Frank is still in Dublin, working as an
undercover cop. He's cut all ties with his dysfunctional family.
Until his sister calls to say that Rosie's suitcase has been found.
Frank embarks on a journey into his past that demands he reevaluate
everything he believes to be true.
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.
All six volumes of the New York Times bestselling Dublin Murder
Squad mysteries by one of the foremost suspense writers working
today, now available in a gorgeous boxed set. From the beloved
writer who "inspires a cultish devotion in readers" (The New
Yorker) a beautiful boxed set including In the Woods, The Likeness,
Faithful Place, Broken Harbor, The Secret Place and The
Trespasser-perfect for old fans, and new.
Still traumatised by her brush with a psychopath, Detective Cassie
Maddox transfers out of the Murder squad and starts a relationship
with fellow detective Sam O'Neill. When he calls her to the scene
of his new case, she is shocked to find that the murdered girl is
her double. What's more, her ID shows she is Lexie Madison - the
identity Cassie used, years ago, as an undercover detective. With
no leads, no suspects and no clues to Lexie's real identity,
Cassie's old boss spots the opportunity of a lifetime: send Cassie
undercover in her place, to tempt the killer out of hiding to
finish the job.
"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 forthcoming novel The
Searcher 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 girls' 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.
From the writer whose novels inspired the BBC's Dublin Murders TV
series... 'One of the most compulsive psychological mysteries since
Donna Tartt's The Secret History' THE TIMES 'An engrossing,
unpredictable, beautifully written mystery' SOPHIE HANNAH 'Dark and
twisty' SUNDAY TIMES 'Mesmerising' GILLIAN FLYNN 'I'm a big fan of
Tana French' IAN RANKIN ________________________________________
WHAT DO WE HIDE INSIDE OURSELVES? One night changes everything for
Toby. He's always led a charmed life - until a brutal attack leaves
him damaged and traumatised, unsure even of the person he used to
be. He seeks refuge at his family's ancestral home, the Ivy House,
filled with memories of wild-strawberry summers and teenage parties
with his cousins. But not long after Toby's arrival, a discovery is
made: a skull, tucked neatly inside the old wych elm in the garden.
As detectives begin to close in, Toby is forced to examine
everything he thought he knew about his family, his past, and
himself. A spellbinding book from a novelist who takes crime
writing and turns it inside out, The Wych Elm asks what we become,
and what we're capable of, if we no longer know who we are.
________________________________________ 'This book confirms Tana
French as [crime fiction's] biggest contemporary star' Guardian
'Lyrical, suspenseful, unpredictable' Harlan Coben 'French offers a
masterclass in unreliability' Sunday Times 'Terrific - terrifying,
amazing, and the prose is incandescent' Stephen King 'Another one
of her rich psychological thrillers that will work its way under
your skin' Lucy Mangan, Stylist 'To say Tana French is one of the
great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply
this: a truly great writer' Gillian Flynn 'This mystery about
family, memory and the cracks in both will haunt you for a long,
long time' Erin Kelly 'The Wych Elm should cement French's place in
the first rank of great literary novelists 'Observer
The haunting follow up to the Edgar Award-winning debut "In the
Woods"
Tana French astonished critics and readers alike with her
mesmerizing debut novel, "In the Woods." Now both French and
Detective Cassie Maddox return to unravel a case even more sinister
and enigmatic than the first. Six months after the events of "In
the Woods," an urgent telephone call beckons Cassie to a grisly
crime scene. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID
identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once
used. Suddenly, Cassie must discover not only who killed this girl,
but, more importantly, who is this girl? A disturbing tale of
shifting identities, "The Likeness" firmly establishes Tana French
as an important voice in suspense fiction. And look for French's
new mystery, "Broken Harbor, " for more of the Dublin Murder Squad.
The "expertly rendered, gripping new novel" (Janet Maslin, "The
New York Times")-from the bestselling author of "In the Woods "and
"The Likeness." Tana French's "In the Woods" and "The Likeness
"captivated readers by introducing them to her unique,
character-driven style and her new mystery, "Broken Harbor, " is
eagerly anticipated. Her singular skill at creating richly drawn,
complex worlds makes her novels not mere whodunits but brilliant
and satisfying novels about memory, identity, loss, and what
defines us as humans. With "Faithful Place," the highly praised
third novel about the Dublin Murder squad, French takes readers
into the mind of Frank Mackey, the hotheaded mastermind of "The
Likeness," as he wrestles with his own past and the family, the
lover, and the neighborhood he thought he'd left behind for
good.
Tana French's newest novel, "The Secret Place," will be published
by Viking on September 2nd, 2014.
In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built,
half-inhabited, half-abandoned - two children and their father are
dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy
is given the case because he is the Murder squad's star detective.
At first he and his rookie partner, Richie, think this is a simple
one: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his
children, tried to kill his wife Jenny, and finished off with
himself. But there are too many inexplicable details and the
evidence is pointing in two directions at once. Scorcher's personal
life is tugging for his attention. Seeing the case on the news has
sent his sister Dina off the rails again, and she's resurrecting
something that Scorcher thought he had tightly under control: what
happened to their family, one summer at Broken Harbour, back when
they were children. The neat compartments of his life are breaking
down, and the sudden tangle of work and family is putting both at
risk . . .
Named a New York Times Notable Book of 2018 and a Best Book of 2018
by NPR, The New York Times Book Review, Amazon, The Boston Globe,
LitHub, Vulture, Slate, Elle, Vox, and Electric Literature "Tana
French's best and most intricately nuanced novel yet." -The New
York Times An "extraordinary" (Stephen King) and "mesmerizing" (LA
Times) new standalone novel from the master of crime and suspense
and author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher. From the writer
who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has
been called "incandescent" by Stephen King, "absolutely
mesmerizing" by Gillian Flynn, and "unputdownable" (People) comes a
gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out. Toby is a
happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work and is
celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will
change his life-he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave
him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to
understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes
refuge at his family's ancestral home to care for his dying uncle
Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree in the
garden-and as detectives close in, Toby is forced to face the
possibility that his past may not be what he has always believed. A
spellbinding standalone from one of the best suspense writers
working today, The Witch Elm asks what we become, and what we're
capable of, when we no longer know who we are.
The "expertly rendered, gripping new novel" (Janet Maslin, "The New
York Times")-from the bestselling author of "In the Woods" and "The
Likeness."
Tana French's "In the Woods" and "The Likeness" captivated readers
by introducing them to her unique, character-driven style. Her
singular skill at creating richly drawn, complex worlds makes her
novels not mere whodunits but brilliant and satisfying novels about
memory, identity, loss, and what defines us as humans. With
"Faithful Place," the highly praised third novel about the Dublin
Murder squad, French takes readers into the mind of Frank Mackey,
the hotheaded mastermind of "The Likeness," as he wrestles with his
own past and the family, the lover, and the neighborhood he thought
he'd left behind for good.
Tana French's newest novel, "The Secret Place," will be published
by Viking on September 2nd, 2014.
From Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher, a
New York Times bestselling novel that "proves anew that [Tana
French] is one of the most talented crime writers alive" (The
Washington Post). "Required reading for anyone who appreciates
tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting." -The New
York Times Mick "Scorcher Kennedy is the star of the Dublin Murder
Squad. He plays by the books and plays hard, and that's how the
biggest case of the year ends up in his hands. On one of the
half-abandoned "luxury developments that litter Ireland, Patrick
Spain and his two young children have been murdered. His wife,
Jenny, is in intensive care. At first, Scorcher thinks it's going
to be an easy solve, but too many small things can't be explained:
the half-dozen baby monitors pointed at holes smashed in the
Spains' walls, the files erased from the family's computer, the
story Jenny told her sister about a shadowy intruder slipping past
the house's locks. And this neighborhood-once called Broken
Harbor-holds memories for Scorcher and his troubled sister, Dina:
childhood memories that Scorcher thought he had tightly under
control.
A brilliant new work of suspense from "the most important crime
novelist to emerge in the past 10 years." (Washington Post) From
the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New
Yorker) and has been called "incandescent" by Stephen King,
"absolutely mesmerizing" by Gillian Flynn, and "unputdownable"
(People), comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story
inside out. Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape
at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn
that will change his life - he surprises two burglars who beat him
and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries,
beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again,
he takes refuge at his family's ancestral home to care for his
dying uncle Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree
in the garden - and as detectives close in, Toby is forced to face
the possibility that his past may not be what he has always
believed. A spellbinding standalone from one of the best suspense
writers working today, The Witch Elm asks what we become, and what
we're capable of, when we no longer know who we are.
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