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Winner of Crime Fiction Book of the Year - Irish Book Awards 2016

´Contains the most tense and serpentine interrogation scenes outside of John Le Carré´ -
Guardian

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.

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´Contains the most tense and serpentine interrogation scenes outside of John Le Carré´ -
Guardian

This is the case she imagined. Precision-cut and savage, lithe and momentous.

Antoinette Conway, the tough, abrasive detective from The Secret Place, is still on the Murder squad, but only just. She´s partnered up with Stephen Moran now, and that´s going well - but the rest of her working life isn´t. Antoinette doesn´t play well with others, and there´s a vicious running campaign in the squad to get rid of her. She and Stephen pull a case that at first looks like a slam-dunk lovers´ tiff. All she and her partner have to do is track down Lover Boy and bring him in. Then it´ll be back to business as usual, watching from a distance as the real detectives go up against the psychopaths. Except when Antoinette takes a good look at the victim´s face, she realises she´s seen her somewhere before. And suddenly the conviction that there´s a different answer takes her breath away.

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First-rate . . . her procedural thoroughness takes her deeper and deeper into a wholly convincing portrayal of Dublin police. David Hare Guardian

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French, Tana
Tana French grew up in Ireland, Italy, the United States and Malawi. She is the author of In the Woods (winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and Barry awards for Best First Novel), The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbour (winner of the LA Times prize for Best Mystery/Thriller) and The Secret Place. She lives in Dublin with her husband and two children. She keeps a website at www.tanafrench.com

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