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Tana French

The Secret Place

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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, popular Chris Harper. Stephen joins forces with the abrasive Detective Antoinette Conway to find out who and why. But everything they discover leads them back to Holly's close-knit group of friends and their fierce enemies, a rival clique-and to the tangled web of relationships that bound all the girls to Chris Harper. Every step in their direction turns up the pressure. Antoinette Conway is already suspicious of Stephen's links to the Mackey family. St. Kilda's will go a long way to keep murder outside their walls. Holly's father, Detective Frank Mackey, is circling, ready to pounce if any of the new evidence points toward his daughter. And the private underworld of teenage girls can be more mysterious and more dangerous than either of the detectives imagined. “The Secret Place” is a powerful, haunting exploration of friendship and loyalty, and a gripping addition to the Dublin Murder Squad series.
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Impressions

  • onceinbelgradeshared an impression6 years ago

    A very well-written story on how desire to be different is so close to arrogance of being better. Tender and sweet and true. Teens are scary fuckers after all.

  • Дарья Расковаshared an impression6 years ago
    👍Worth reading

    затянуто как минимум на треть книги, но зато очень подробный и просторный мир создается. люблю Тану Френч! и убийцу на этот раз я угадала неправильно :)

  • MarushaNshared an impression5 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🚀Unputdownable

Quotes

  • Tatiana Serdtsevahas quoted4 years ago
    Selena thinks about that. She hears all the voices from when she was little, soothing, strengthening: Don’t be scared, not of monsters, not of witches, not of big dogs. And now, snapping loud from every direction: Be scared, you have to be scared, ordering like this is your one absolute duty. Be scared you’re fat, be scared your boobs are too big and be scared they’re too small. Be scared to walk on your own, specially anywhere quiet enough that you can hear yourself think. Be scared of wearing the wrong stuff, saying the wrong thing, having a stupid laugh, being uncool. Be scared of guys not fancying you; be scared of guys, they’re animals, rabid, can’t stop themselves. Be scared of girls, they’re all vicious, they’ll cut you down before you can cut them. Be scared of strangers. Be scared you won’t do well enough in your exams, be scared of getting in trouble. Be scared terrified petrified that everything you are is every kind of wrong. Good girl.
  • Galina Sokolinskayahas quoted6 years ago
    She’s in Minnesota, a smallish town there. That’s where her husband’s from. I don’t know if…’

    ‘If we headed to New
  • Galina Sokolinskayahas quoted6 years ago
    She looks sort of like a person but not really, like someone explained to aliens what a person is and they did their best to make one of their own.

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