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?
De Moordbrigade van Dublin Reeks
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.
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The Likeness
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In this follow-up to Tana French’s runaway bestseller In the Woods , itʼs six months later and Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder Squad with no plans to go back—until an urgent telephone call summons her to a grisly crime scene. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used as an undercover cop. Cassie must discover not only who killed this girl, but, more important, who was this girl?
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.
In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin, two children and their father are dead. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case and at first he thinks it's simple: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, and himself. But there are too many inexplicable details and the evidence is pointing in two directions at once. Scorcher's finding that the neat compartments of his life are now rapidly breaking down, and the sudden tangle of work and family is putting both at risk.
'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.