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<div class="more-link-wrap opened"></div><section class="overview">The bestselling debut, with over a million copies sold, that launched Tana French, author of The Witch Elm and “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” (The Washington Post).  “Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting.” —The New York Times Soon to be a Starz series 
 As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers
 begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three 
children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police 
arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in 
terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single 
detail of the previous hours. Twenty years later, the found boy,
 Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a
 secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same 
woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox—his partner and closest 
friend—find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the 
previous unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried 
memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery 
of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past. Richly atmospheric and stunning in its complexity, In the Woods is utterly convincing and surprising to the end. </section>
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**<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3>
Irish author French expertly walks the line between police procedural and psychological thriller in her debut. When Katy Devlin, a 12-year-old girl from Knocknaree, a Dublin suburb, is found murdered at a local archeological dig, Det. Rob Ryan and his partner, Cassie Maddox, must probe deep into the victim's troubled family history. There are chilling similarities between the Devlin murder and the disappearance 20 years before of two children from the same neighborhood who were Ryan's best friends. Only Maddox knows Ryan was involved in the 1984 case. The plot climaxes with a taut interrogation by Maddox of a potential suspect, and the reader is floored by the eventual identity and motives of the killer. A distracting political subplot involves a pending motorway in Knocknaree, but Ryan and Maddox are empathetic and flawed heroes, whose partnership and friendship elevate the narrative beyond a gory tale of murdered children and repressed childhood trauma. (May) 
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<h3>From Booklist</h3>
Starred Review Rob Ryan and his partner, Cassie Maddox, land the first big murder case of their police careers: a 12-year-old girl has been murdered in the woods adjacent to a Dublin suburb. Twenty years before, two children disappeared in the same woods, and Ryan was found clinging to a tree trunk, his sneakers filled with blood, unable to tell police anything about what happened to his friends. Ryan, although scarred by his experience, employs all his skills in the search for the killer and in hopes that the investigation will also reveal what happened to his childhood friends. In the Woods is a superior novel about cops, murder, memory, relationships, and modern Ireland. The characters of Ryan and Maddox, as well as a handful of others, are vividly developed in this intelligent and beautifully written first novel, and author French relentlessly builds the psychological pressure on Ryan as the investigation lurches onward under the glare of the tabloid media. Equally striking is the picture of contemporary Ireland, booming economically and fixated on the shabbiest aspects of American popular culture. An outstanding debut and a series to watch for procedural fans. Thomas Gaughan 
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 <h4 class="slot-header">Praise</h4>
 
 “[An] ambitious and extraordinary first novel…rank it high.” —The Washington Post “Part
 whodunit, part psychological thriller, and wholly successful…French’s 
plot twists and turns will bamboozle even the most astute reader…A 
well-written, expertly plotted thriller.” —NPR “In the Woods is as creepily imaginative as it gets.” —USA Today   
 “Drawn by the grim nature of her plot and the lyrical ferocity of her 
writing, even smart people who should know better will be able to lose 
themselves in these dark woods.” —The New York Times Book Review    Praise for Tana French “When
 you read Ms. French — and she has become required reading for anyone 
who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting —
 make only one assumption: All of your initial assumptions are wrong” —The New York Times “Tana French is the most interesting, most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years.” —The Washington Post “[Tana French] inspires cultic devotion in readers…most crime fiction is diverting; French’s is consuming.” —The New Yorker 
 “To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too 
limiting. Rather she’s simply this: a truly great writer.”­  —Gillian Flynn  “French is a poet of mood and a master builder of plots.” ­ —The Washington Post   “One of the most distinct and exciting new voices in crime writing.”  —The Wall Street Journal   
 “French does something fresh with every novel, each one as powerful as 
the last but in a very different manner. Perhaps she has superpowers of 
her own? Whatever the source of her gift, it’s only growing more 
miraculous with every book.”  —Salon.com 
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