by Tana French
Part of Dublin Murder Squad, book 5
First published 2015
Detective Stephen Moran thought the boarding school murder case was dead. Twelve months have passed since someone killed a boy on the grounds of an elite girls' school. The investigation stalled. The file gathered dust. Then Holly Mackey, sixteen years old, appears in Moran's office clutching a photograph. Someone has written four words on it: "I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM." Moran teams up with Detective Antoinette Conway to chase this new lead back to the school. They enter a closed world where teenage girls guard their secrets fiercely. Friendships shift like quicksand. Rivalries run deep. The detectives must untangle relationships that matter more than life itself to these students. Every conversation reveals new layers of loyalty and betrayal. The truth about what happened that night lies buried somewhere in this maze of adolescent bonds.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, detective
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Dublin (Ireland), Ireland
544 pages · Paperback · Hodder & Stoughton