The Secret Place

Tana French

Hodder & Stoughton

2014

528 páginas

17h 36m

ISBN-13: 9781444755572

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.

Resenhas (3)

4.5 (Muito bom)

Same squad different detectives

Oh boy, after I've discovered this author this is the second book I read from her, and that's because her books are really nice readings, the characters are almost real and the histories are very well designed and written. I've have found three of her books in a 2º hand book store and glad to be risked and bought all of them.
The only trick is, English is not my mother language and her books are full of slangs and not only that, but an Irish accent that makes a little more difficult to understand some parts without the assistance of a dictionary.