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The Secret Place
by Tana French
When Detective Stephen Moran is brought a card with a picture of the dead boy whose death baffled the Dublin Murder Squad and the caption I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM, he takes the chance to get into the Murder Squad. Along with the tough detective Antoinette Conway, he's plunged into one of the most twisted and complicated worlds of all: that of teenage girls.
The Secret Place was a beautifully crafted, incredibly thoughtful, and suspenseful mystery that actually made me cry. French captures the world of teenage girls with incisive details and imagery that's both lovely and grotesque. Every page of this book was simply so thoughtful, so carefully developed and crafted--it's a five-course meal to other mysteries' cotton candy.
Perhaps the best thing is how fully fleshed out every character feels. They leap off the page, with dreams and hopes and fears of their own spilling out of their mouths, and even the minor characters are memorable. The twists are surprising and desperate as your need to find out what happens next may be, the urge to sit back and enjoy every page is even stronger. Highly recommended.
The Secret Place was a beautifully crafted, incredibly thoughtful, and suspenseful mystery that actually made me cry. French captures the world of teenage girls with incisive details and imagery that's both lovely and grotesque. Every page of this book was simply so thoughtful, so carefully developed and crafted--it's a five-course meal to other mysteries' cotton candy.
Perhaps the best thing is how fully fleshed out every character feels. They leap off the page, with dreams and hopes and fears of their own spilling out of their mouths, and even the minor characters are memorable. The twists are surprising and desperate as your need to find out what happens next may be, the urge to sit back and enjoy every page is even stronger. Highly recommended.