Deze serie dompelt lezers onder in de duistere onderbuik van Dublin, waar doorgewinterde rechercheurs van de moordbrigade ingewikkelde zaken ontrafelen. Elke aflevering richt zich op een andere rechercheur, waarbij diens persoonlijke demonen en het verleden dat hun kijk op misdaad vormt, worden blootgelegd. Duik in spannende onderzoeken die menselijke psychologie en morele dilemma's verkennen tegen de achtergrond van de rauwe Ierse realiteit. Het is intelligente en sfeervolle misdaadfictie die je geboeid zal houden.
Op een archeologische vindplaats wordt het ontzielde lichaam van de twaalfjarige Katy Devlin aangetroffen, dat . De politie staat voor een raadsel.. De moordzaak doet Rob Ryan denken aan een traumatische gebeurtenis uit zijn kindertijd. Langzaam maar zeker raakt hij persoonlijk verstrikt in het politieonderzoek, zich steeds weer afvragend waarom indertijd zijn twee jeugdvriendjes, Jamie en Peter, nooit zijn teruggekeerd uit het bos en hij wél teruggevonden werd, onder het bloed. Waarom herinnert hij zich niet wat er gebeurd is? En wat is het verband met Katy Devlin?
Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to deal with the events of In the Woods. She is out of the Murder Squad and has started a relationship with fellow detective Sam O'Neill but is too badly shaken to commit to Sam or to her career. Then Sam is allocated a new case, that of a young woman stabbed to death just outside Dublin. He calls Cassie to the murder scene and she finds the victim is strangely familiar. In fact, she is Cassie's double. Not only that, but her ID says she is Lexie Madison the identity Cassie used, years ago, as an undercover detective. With no leads, no suspects and no clues, Cassie's old undercover boss spots the opportunity of a lifetime: to send Cassie undercover in the dead girl's place. She could pick up information the police would never hear and tempt the killer to finish the job. So Cassie moves into Whitethorn House, poses as a post-grad student, and prepares to enter Lexie's world.
The course of Frank Mackey's life was set by one defining moment when he was nineteen. The moment his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed to turn up for their rendezvous in Faithful Place, failed to run away with him to London as they had planned. Frank never heard from her again. Twenty years on, Frank is still in Dublin, working as an undercover cop. He's cut all ties with his dysfunctional family. Until his sister calls to say that Rosie's suitcase has been found. Frank embarks on a journey into his past that demands he reevaluate everything he believes to be true.
'A gripping read for those still pining for GONE GIRL' Elle's top five beach reads The photo shows a boy who was murdered a year ago. The caption says, 'I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM'. Detective Stephen Moran hasn't seen Holly Mackey since she was a nine-year-old witness to the events of Faithful Place. Now she's sixteen and she's shown up outside his squad room, with a photograph and a story. Even in her exclusive boarding school, in the graceful golden world that Stephen has always longed for, bad things happen and people have secrets. The previous year, Christopher Harper, from the neighbouring boys' school, was found murdered on the grounds. And today, in the Secret Place - the school noticeboard where girls can pin up their secrets anonymously - Holly found the card. Solving this case could take Stephen onto the Murder squad. But to get it solved, he will have to work with Detective Antoinette Conway - tough, prickly, an outsider, everything Stephen doesn't want in a partner. And he will have to find a way into the strange, charged, mysterious world that Holly and her three closest friends inhabit and disentangle the truth from their knot of secrets, even as he starts to suspect that the truth might be something he doesn't want to hear. From the multi-award-winning author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller In the Woods, The Secret Place is a searing novel of psychological suspense.
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.A searing novel of psychological suspense from the multi-award-winning author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller In the Woods.
