Tana French

"Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small...

"Being on the Murder Squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she's there. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she's getting close to the breaking point. Their new case looks like yet another by-the-numbers lovers' quarrel gone bad. Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty, groomed...

Detective Rob Ryan and his partner, Cassie Maddox, investigate the murder of a 12-year-old girl near a Dublin suburb. The case resonates with similarities to a murder committed twenty years before that involved two children and the young Ryan.

"The photo on the card shows a boy who was found murdered, a year ago, on the grounds of a girls' boarding school in the leafy suburbs of Dublin. The caption says I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to get a foot in the door of Dublin's Murder Squad--and one morning, sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey brings him this photo. "The Secret Place," a board where the girls at St. Kilda's School can pin up their secrets...

"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....

Aislinn Murray ist jung, hübsch und liegt tot in ihrem Haus, der Tisch ist für ein romantisches Abendessen gedeckt. Wieder so eine klare Beziehungstat, denkt die Polizei. Doch bald stoßen die Detectives Antoinette Conway und Stephen Moran auf Ungereimtheiten. Und es wird immer offensichtlicher, dass jemand in der Mordkommission ihre Arbeit behindert. Weil sich Antoinette mit ihrer toughen Art Feinde gemacht hat? In einem nervenaufreibenden Ermittlungskreisel...

"A brilliant new work of suspense from "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years." (Washington Post) From the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has been called "incandescent" by Stephen King, "absolutely mesmerizing" by Gillian Flynn, and "unputdownable" (People), comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out. Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work...

(Autorisierte Lesefassung) Dem Tod wie aus dem Gesicht geschnitten In einem verfallenen Cottage außerhalb von Dublin wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden. Die Polizistin Cassie Maddox kann kaum fassen, was sie zu sehen bekommt: Die Tote gleicht ihr bis aufs Haar. Wer ist diese Frau? Wer hat sie niedergestochen? Und hätte eigentlich Cassie selbst sterben sollen? Keinerlei Spuren oder Hinweise sind zu finden, und noch unter Schock wird Cassie...

Anmutig, behütet und golden, so scheint die abgeschirmte Welt des traditionsreichen Mädcheninternats St. Kilda. Doch vor einem Jahr ist dort im Park ein Junge erschlagen worden. Nun hängt sein Bild am Schwarzen Brett - mit der Überschrift: ICH WEISS, WER IHN GETÖTET HAT. Nur eines von acht Mädchen kann die Karte aufgehängt haben. In zwei Cliquen stehen sie sich gegenüber - unverbrüchliche Freundinnen, erbarmungslose Feindinnen. Der junge...