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Clockwise counting 74/50: Tana French - In the Woods (2007)
In the 1980s, three children disappeared in the woods outside a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. One of them, Adam Ryan, was found with horrible scratches on his back and his shoes soaked with the blood of one of the other children. He suffered a complete lapse of memory. The other two children were never found and Adam never regained his memory of the event.
Twenty years later Adam is a detective in the Dublin Murder Squad and a small girl is found killed in the same woods. He gets the case but the Dublin police doesn't know about his own childhood experience.
This is a very clever and well written psychological crime story. It won the Edgar Award and Tana French has gone on to write another 4 successful novels about the Dublin police. I intend to read at least the next one in the series. I liked this one!
In the 1980s, three children disappeared in the woods outside a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. One of them, Adam Ryan, was found with horrible scratches on his back and his shoes soaked with the blood of one of the other children. He suffered a complete lapse of memory. The other two children were never found and Adam never regained his memory of the event.
Twenty years later Adam is a detective in the Dublin Murder Squad and a small girl is found killed in the same woods. He gets the case but the Dublin police doesn't know about his own childhood experience.
This is a very clever and well written psychological crime story. It won the Edgar Award and Tana French has gone on to write another 4 successful novels about the Dublin police. I intend to read at least the next one in the series. I liked this one!