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An absolutely mesmerizing read Tana French is simply this a truly great writer Gillian Flynn Read the New York Times bestseller by Tana French the most interesting most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years The Washington Post and don t miss her newest The Trespasser now available In this dizzyingly addictive novel 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 a popular boy whose body was found at a girls boarding school a year earlier The photo had been posted at The Secret Place the school s anonymous gossip board and the caption says 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 Shortlisted for the Anthony Award for Best Novel Shortlisted for Strand Magazine Award for Best Novel From the Trade Paperback edition The sensational new novel from one of the most talented crime writers alive The Washington Post The photo on the card shows a boy who was found murdered a year ago on the grounds of a girls boarding school in the leafy suburbs of Dublin The caption saysI KNOW WHO KILLED HIM Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to get a foot in the door of Dublin s Murder Squad and one morning sixteen year old Holly Mackey brings him this photo The Secret Place a board where the girls at St Kilda s School can pin up their secrets anonymously is normally a mishmash of gossip and covert cruelty but today someone has used it to reignite the stalled investigation into the murder of handsome



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Tana French

Tana French is the author of In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbor, The Secret Place, and The Trespasser. Her books have won awards including the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards, the Los Angeles Times Award for Best Mystery/Thriller, and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction. She lives in Dublin with her family.



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