Kilda’s will go a long way to keep murder outside their walls. Antoinette Conway is already suspicious of Stephen’s links to the Mackey family.

Every step in their direction turns up the pressure. Stephen joins forces with the abrasive Detective Antoinette Conway to find out who and why.īut 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. 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. The Secret Place, a board where the girls at St. And then the mystery book group I’m in chose it as our October read which made me even more excited to finally dip into the world of the Dublin Murder Squad.ĭetective 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. I’ve been meaning to read her, so when the publicist asked if I’d be interested in a review copy I gladly said yes. It’s hard to believe that was almost 10 years ago and she’s now published her fifth novel. It won the 2007 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. I was working in a bookstore when Tana French’s first novel, In The Woods, came out and made a huge splash.

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