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Tana French

    May 10, 1973
    Tana French
    The trespasser
    Broken Harbour
    Faithful Place
    The Hunter
    El Silencio del bosque
    En piel ajena
    • A pesar de haber abandonado la brigada de homicidios, la detective Cassie Maddox recibe una llamada para acudir a la escena de un crimen, ya que ella y la joven asesinada, Alexandra Madison, son prácticamente como dos gotas de agua. La policía desmentirá la muerte de Lexie Madison para que Cassie pueda suplantarla e irse a vivir a Whitethorn House, su antiguo hogar, que compartía con cuatro curiosos estudiantes universitarios, los principales sospechosos. Cassie no tardará en verse arrastrada por el misterio de saber quién era realmente Lexie y penetrar en su mundo.

      En piel ajena
      4,1
    • Más allá de la urbanización está el bosque. Ese bosque oscuro y silencioso en el que los niños escapan para perseguir fantasmas, miedos y leyendas. Son sólo juegos. Hasta que no vuelven. La tarde del 14 de agosto de 1.984, tres niños de doce años, Jamie Rowan, Peter Savage y Adam Ryan, se adentraron en el bosque de Knocknaree, en las afueras de Dublín, nunca más salieron de él. Aunque la Policía encuentra esa misma noche a uno de ellos, Ryan, abrazado a un roble, con los zapatos llenos de sangre y un rostro de espanto, incapaz de recordar nada de las horas anteriores. Veinte años después, Ryan intentará definitivamente escapar de aquel bosque. Ahora se hace llamar Rob, es detective de Homicidios y sigue guardando con celo aquella pesadilla de la infancia. Hasta que encuentran el cuerpo de una niña de doce años asesinada en un escenario difícil de olvidar: el mismo bosque, el mismo terror, ninguna pista.

      El Silencio del bosque
      3,8
    • The Hunter

      • 416 páginas
      • 15 horas de lectura

      Runtime: 16 hours and 25 minutesIt’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die.Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He’s found it, more or he’s built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he’s gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places. But then Trey’s long-absent father reappears, bringing along an English millionaire and a scheme to find gold in the townland, and suddenly everything the three of them have been building is under threat. Cal and Lena are both ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey, but Trey doesn’t want protecting. What she wants is revenge.A nuanced, atmospheric tale that explores what we’ll do for our loved ones, what we’ll do for revenge, and what we sacrifice when the two collide.

      The Hunter
      4,4
    • The course of Frank Mackey's life was set by one defining moment when he was nineteen. The moment his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed to turn up for their rendezvous in Faithful Place, failed to run away with him to London as they had planned. Frank never heard from her again. Twenty years on, Frank is still in Dublin, working as an undercover cop. He's cut all ties with his dysfunctional family. Until his sister calls to say that Rosie's suitcase has been found. Frank embarks on a journey into his past that demands he reevaluate everything he believes to be true.

      Faithful Place
      4,2
    • In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin, two children and their father are dead. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case and at first he thinks it's simple: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, and himself. But there are too many inexplicable details and the evidence is pointing in two directions at once. Scorcher's finding that the neat compartments of his life are now rapidly breaking down, and the sudden tangle of work and family is putting both at risk.

      Broken Harbour
      4,1
    • You can beat one killer. Beating your own squad is a whole other thing. The case that will make Detective Antoinette Conway's murder squad career. Or break it.A searing novel of psychological suspense from the multi-award-winning author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller In the Woods.

      The trespasser
      4,0
    • 'A gripping read for those still pining for GONE GIRL' Elle's top five beach reads The photo shows a boy who was murdered a year ago. The caption says, 'I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM'. Detective Stephen Moran hasn't seen Holly Mackey since she was a nine-year-old witness to the events of Faithful Place. Now she's sixteen and she's shown up outside his squad room, with a photograph and a story. Even in her exclusive boarding school, in the graceful golden world that Stephen has always longed for, bad things happen and people have secrets. The previous year, Christopher Harper, from the neighbouring boys' school, was found murdered on the grounds. And today, in the Secret Place - the school noticeboard where girls can pin up their secrets anonymously - Holly found the card. Solving this case could take Stephen onto the Murder squad. But to get it solved, he will have to work with Detective Antoinette Conway - tough, prickly, an outsider, everything Stephen doesn't want in a partner. And he will have to find a way into the strange, charged, mysterious world that Holly and her three closest friends inhabit and disentangle the truth from their knot of secrets, even as he starts to suspect that the truth might be something he doesn't want to hear. From the multi-award-winning author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller In the Woods, The Secret Place is a searing novel of psychological suspense.

      The Secret Place
      3,9
    • "Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force, and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal discovers that even in the most idyllic small town, dangerous secrets lie hidden, and trouble can come calling at his door."--Back cover.

      The Searcher
      3,7
    • The Witch Elm

      • 528 páginas
      • 19 horas de lectura

      From the writer who “inspires cultic devotion in readers” (The New Yorker) and has been called “incandescent” by Stephen King, “absolutely mesmerizing” by Gillian Flynn, and “unputdownable” (People) comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out. Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who’s dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life—he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family’s ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree in the garden—and as detectives close in, Toby is forced to face the possibility that his past may not be what he has always believed. A spellbinding standalone from one of the best suspense writers working today, The Witch Elm asks what we become, and what we’re capable of, when we no longer know who we are.

      The Witch Elm
      3,6
    • »Ich sehne mich nach der Wahrheit. Und ich lüge.« Er ist ein erfolgreicher Ermittler. Man vertraut ihm schwierige Fälle an. Er löst sie alle. Bis eine Leiche gefunden wird – an dem Ort, der seine tiefsten Ängste weckt ... In der Ausgrabungsstätte Knocknaree bei Dublin wird ein Mädchen tot aufgefunden, aufgebahrt auf einem Opferaltar. Der junge Ermittler Rob Ryan und seine Partnerin Cassie Maddox übernehmen den Fall. Doch alle Spuren führen nur tiefer in ein unergründliches Dickicht. Und niemand darf erfahren, was mit Ryan vor zwanzig Jahren im Wald von Knocknaree geschehen ist. »Fangen Sie mit diesem Buch nicht an, wenn Sie die Nacht gut durchschlafen wollen.« Publishers weekly

      Grabes Grün
      3,0