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The Secret Place by Tana French
4.0

As a general rule I do not like detective novels or police procedurals, but this was pretty good. It helped that it was set at a boarding school. I love a good school setting.

Anyway, Detective Stephen Moran is stuck working in Cold Cases until a tip on a murder case falls in his lap, and he is allowed to tag along when the detective assigned to the case goes to the school to follow up on the tip. Last year a boy was murdered on the school grounds, and the case has not been solved.