Book 06 Jun 2007 06:01 am
In the Woods
Here is a novel that you might like. Tana French has written her first novel and it’s a doozy! I will be honest with you that when I first finished it, I was unhappy. As you know, I read a lot of romance novels, and other novels where at the end, it is “happily ever after.” The problems are all solved and the characters ride happily into the sunset. That would NOT describe In the Woods. It has been a couple weeks since I finished it, and it just came on sale. I was describing it to a co-worker, and then again to a customer, and as I was doing that, I kept thinking… I really DID like this book. All the way through the novel, I enjoyed myself. I never figured out who the killer was until I was told, and I liked most of the characters, and the setting in Ireland, really everything about it. I just did not like the ending (though it too fit for the characters, it just wasn’t “happily ever after”).
If you like intense mysteries, you would definitely like it!
From the Penguin Official Website,
Tana French
A gorgeously written novel that marks the debut of an astonishing new voice in psychological suspense.
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, stunning in its complexity, and utterly convincing and surprising to the end, In the Woods is sure to enthrall fans of Mystic River and The Lovely Bones.
Tana French grew up in Ireland, Italy, the United States, and Malawi, and has lived in Dublin since 1990. This is her first book.
It is available in stores now so check it out at your local independent bookshop!!
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