The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad #5)

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An absolutely mesmerizing read Tana French is simply this a truly great writer Gillian FlynnRead the New York Times bestseller by Tana French, author of The Witch Elm and the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years The Washington Post.A year ago a boy was found murdered at a girls boarding school, and the case was never solved Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to join Dublin s Murder Squad when sixteen year old Holly Mackey arrives in his office with a photo of the boy with the caption I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM Stephen joins with Detective Antoinette Conway to reopen the case beneath the watchful eye of Holly s father, fellow detective Frank Mackey With the clues leading back to Holly s close knit group of friends, to their rival clique, and to the tangle of relationships that bound them all to the murdered boy, the private underworld of teenage girls turns out to be mysterious and dangerous than the detectives imagined. New Download Books The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad #5) by Tana French – kino-fada.fr okay so let me get the bad news out of the way this book has disrupted my opinion based observation that every single tana french book has been better then the one that came before which is probably for the best it was starting to feel downright witchy, her powers, and it is an impossible thing to sustain, this exponential improvement from book to book having said that, this book is still absolutely amazing and riveting and everything you want out of a literary crime novel this woman is a okay so let me get the bad news out of the way this book has disrupted my opinion based observation that every single tana french book has been better then the one that came before which is probably for the best it was starting to feel downright witchy, her powers, and it is an impossible thing to sustain, this exponential improvement from book to book having said that, this book is still absolutely amazing and riveting and everything you want out of a literary crime novel this woman is a master of her craft, both in her storytelling and the way she manipulates structure to increase tension and set the most delicious pace page turning but also frustrating a...If I ve learned one thing today, it s that teenage girls make Moriarty look like a babe in the woodsTana French takes on the world of teenage girls This book was 100% worth waiting for and, though I ve loved all of French s mysteries, I think this could actually be my favourite It was just so wonderful to get back into a book full of great characterisation, intricate relationships, clever red herrings and a writing style that so wholly fits my tastes French writes the only kind of lengthIf I ve learned one thing today, it s that teenage girls make Moriarty look like a babe in the woodsTana French takes on the world of teenage girls This book was 100% worth waiting for and, though I ve loved all of French s mysteries, I think this could actually be my favourite It was just so wonderful to get back into a book full of great characterisation, intricate relationships, clever red herrings and a writing style that so wholly fits my tastes French writes the only kind of lengthy, descriptive books I can get fully absorbed into because her description is so engaging and interesting that I just wantandNearly 500 pages and ...Giving this book a 2 breaks my heart The Dublin Squad series by Tana French is among my top 2 mystery series of all time, and I ve loved every book in the series except for this one.The magic is gone.The writing in this book lacks the sparkle of the previous ones It may be that the main character, Detective Stephen Moran, is particularly dull The previous narrators have all absorbed me into their story, they all had such personality Rob is tragic Cassie is strong Mackey a tough son of a Giving this book a 2 breaks my heart The Dublin Squad series by Tana French is among my top 2 mystery series of all time, and I ve loved every book in the series except for this one...This has nothing to do with what anyone else in all the world would approve or forbid This is all their ownReducing Tana French s books to a simple concept of murder mysteries would be like describing Anna Karenina asthat story about the train I called them intense psychological f ckeries before, and that also is not enough I just don t know how to express my admiration for her skills in weaving bright and intricate and yet subtle relationship webs based in brilliant clever characThis has nothing to do with what anyone else in all the world would approve or forbid This is all their ownReducing Tana French s books to a simple concept of murder mysteries would be like describing Anna Karenina asthat story about the train I called them intense psychological f ckeries before, and that also is not enough I just don t know how to express my admiration for her skills in weaving bright and intricate and yet subtle relationship webs based in brilliant clever characte...Almost a 3 star rating I liked the detectives And, I wanted to know who the killer was, so I HAD to keep reading.However, The Secret Place is NOT as good as ALL other Tana French books If you re a HUGE TANA FRENCH FAN as I am You might be disappointed in this book.If you ve never read Tana French before, do not start with this one I managed to enjoy this book enough in spite of so much tedious teen adolescent lingo Sometimes I felt, Tana French was pretty good giving a vo Almost a 3 star rating I liked the detectives And, I wanted to know who the killer was, so I HAD to keep reading.However, The Secret Place is NOT as good as ALL other Tana French books If you re a HUGE TANA FRENCH FAN as I am You might be disappointed in this book.If you ve never read Tana French before, do not start with this one I managed to enjoy this book enough in spite of so much tedious teen adolescent lingo Sometimes I felt, Tana French was pretty good giving a voice to the TEEN GIRLS their drama attitudes and shallow concerns , but right when I thought the author was doing better than MOST adult writers giving a voice to a teenager I d find a line that would just make me cringe For example...Damn, 2014 seems so far away I am pretty excited to hear that we will be seeing Frank again, I love him Now all I really need is that Tana finally decides to bring back Rob and Cassie preferably together so they can make up.Here s how I imagine it went down French and her besties are at their high school reunion weekend They re sitting around drinking wine and reminiscing when someone decides to pull out the old ouija board from the attic storage Much to their surprise, they channel Agatha Christie s voice from Cat Among the Pigeons Flush with success, they try again, and discover Ray Bradbury s Something Wicked This Way Comes my review.Alright maybe I just have my own upcoming reunion on my mind But I was Here s how I imagine it went down French and her besties are at their high school reunion weekend They re sitting around drinking wine and reminiscing when someone decides to pull out the old ouija board from the attic storage Much to their surprise, they channel Agatha Christie s voice from Cat Among the Pigeons Flush with success, they try again, and discover Ray Bradbury s Something Wicked This Way Comes my review.Alright maybe I just have my own upcoming reunion on my mind But I was captivated by the way The Secret Place integrated the turbulent days of youth at a girls boarding school with a murder investigation by Dublin s finest, proving again that French has talent in spades If there is one thing her prior four books in the Murder Squad series have made clear, French is great at character creation And atmosphere Oh, and dialogue Okay, fine she s good at all the component...Few other books have conjured up the ghost of my teenage years as successfully as this one, dredged up the hazy remembrance of that first, most agonizing heartbreak, the subsequent amateurish cynicism summoned up to preclude the hassle of emotional hangups and the feeling of having only just the foggiest notion of how the world works.It is awe inspiring how Tana French continues to incorporate such authentic sociocultural commentary into narratives which are usually taken to be written for the s Few other books have conjured up the ghost of my teenage years as successfully as this one, dredged up the hazy remembrance of that first, most agonizing heartbreak, the subsequent amateurish cynicism summoned up to preclude the hassle of emotional hangups and the feeling of having only just the foggiest notion of how the world works.It is awe inspiring how Tana Frenc...A boy is found murdered on the grounds of a girl s school One year later, Holly Mackey drops a photograph into the lap of Stephen Moran, a Cold Case cop in Dublin, indicating someone at St Kilda s knows who the killer was He takes the photograph to the Murder Squad and gets paired with Detective Conway Will this be Moran s big chance at getting on the Murder Squad or will the case tear him apart The Secret Place is Tana French s fifth entry in the Dublin Murder Squad books and the last to da A boy is found murdered on the grounds of a girl s school One year later, Holly Mackey drops a photograph into the lap of Stephen Moran, a Cold Case cop in Dublin, indicating someone at St Kilda s knows who the killer was He takes the photograph to the Murder Squad and gets paired with Detective Conway Will this be Moran s big chance at getting on the Murder Squad or will the case tear him apart The Secret Place is Tana French s fifth entry in the Dublin Murder Squad books and th...Tana French finds new ways to dazzle and impress me with the fifth Dublin Murder Squad novel Readers familiar with Faithful Place will remember Holly Mackey, daughter of Frank Mackey, and Dublin Police floater Stephen Moran Seven years later, Moran is now working on Cold Cases and receives an unlikely visit from Holly, who is now sixteen and enrolled at St Kilda s, an all girls boarding school Holly explai...

The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad #5)
  • English
  • 22 October 2017
  • Paperback
  • 480 pages
  • 0143127519
  • Tana French
  • The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad #5)