In the Woods Tana French

Dublin detective Rob Ryan carries a secret: as a child, he was found alone in the woods, his shoes filled with blood, with no memory of what happened to his two friends who vanished that day. Years later, a young girl is found murdered in the same woods — and Ryan is assigned the case. As he and his partner Cassie Maddox unravel the killing, his own buried past begins to resurface, threatening both the investigation and his sanity. Tana French’s debut is a strikingly atmospheric novel — moody, literary, and emotionally devastating. It launched her acclaimed Dublin Murder Squad series and announced a bold new voice in crime fiction.