In the Woods

THE ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME THRILLER FROM THE MILLION-COPY, SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR

New York Times #3 best thriller of the 21st Century

To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather shes simply this: a truly great writerGILLIAN FLYNN

[Crime fictions] biggest contemporary starGUARDIAN

One of the finest writers of contemporary crime fictionDAILY MAIL

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Three children went into the woods to play . . .

One came out.

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, 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. Hes changed his name. No one knows about his past.

But when a little girls body is found at the site of the old tragedy, Rob is drawn back into his own haunted memories.

Knowing that he would be thrown off the case if his past were revealed, Rob takes a fateful decision to keep quiet, as he begins a desperate quest to solve the twenty-year-old mystery of the woods.

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Adapted, along with The Likeness, into the iconic BBC series Dublin Murders

EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL
ANTHONY AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL
BARRY AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL
MACAVITY AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL

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Praise for the talismanic Tana French and her novels

I can do you no greater favour in life than recommending that you read her booksGUARDIAN

The most interesting, the most important crime novelist to emerge in the last ten yearsWASHINGTON POST

The most breathtakingly brilliant and close-to-perfect thriller Ive read for a long timeSOPHIE HANNAH

Im a big fan of Tana FrenchIAN RANKIN

This is a tour de force of suspense and storytelling. Comes closer to perfection than anything Ive read in the last decadeSARAH HILARY

French offers a masterclass in unreliabilitySUNDAY TIMES

An audacious departure for this immensely talented author . . . not to be missedNEW YORK TIMES

A wonderfully assured and beautifully written debut novelIRISH INDEPENDENT

I didnt want it to endHARRIET TYCE