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The Secret Place
by Tana French
The Secret Place, Tana French
Tana French is one of the best detective fiction writers out there. Her novels have all been great, thrilling reads, but this was spectacular. A total edge of your seat, can't put the book down read. A young man is murdered on the campus of a girls boarding school outside Dublin. The case has gone unsolved for a year, and the female murder squad detective is stumped and frustrated. But a card posted on a bulletin board at the school brings her back to the school to investigate along with a striving young detective aiming for a place on the murder squad. The detectives have never worked together before but they get along better then either expected. The male detective is striving to prove himself, and the female detective, higher on the totem pole, is an outcast on the squad. She doesn't play nicely with the male detectives and they have ostracized her. The two detectives must interview 8 fifteen year old girls from two cliques that hate each other to figure out what happened. French does a great job with the teenager's language, slang and attitudes. Also with the bitchiness that comes from being well off, pretty, spoiled or just a teenage girl. The girls have the detectives going in circles, but one of the 8 is probably the killer. OMG, so totally, like worth your time.
Tana French is one of the best detective fiction writers out there. Her novels have all been great, thrilling reads, but this was spectacular. A total edge of your seat, can't put the book down read. A young man is murdered on the campus of a girls boarding school outside Dublin. The case has gone unsolved for a year, and the female murder squad detective is stumped and frustrated. But a card posted on a bulletin board at the school brings her back to the school to investigate along with a striving young detective aiming for a place on the murder squad. The detectives have never worked together before but they get along better then either expected. The male detective is striving to prove himself, and the female detective, higher on the totem pole, is an outcast on the squad. She doesn't play nicely with the male detectives and they have ostracized her. The two detectives must interview 8 fifteen year old girls from two cliques that hate each other to figure out what happened. French does a great job with the teenager's language, slang and attitudes. Also with the bitchiness that comes from being well off, pretty, spoiled or just a teenage girl. The girls have the detectives going in circles, but one of the 8 is probably the killer. OMG, so totally, like worth your time.