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  • Detectives Rob Ryan and Cassie Maddox -- great friends as well
    Detective Sam joins them in solving the mystery of a young girl whose slain body was found on the site of an architectural dig.
    In his youth, Detective Ryan went by his given name of Adam Ryan. His two best friends disappeared ... Continue

    Detectives Rob Ryan and Cassie Maddox -- great friends as well
    Detective Sam joins them in solving the mystery of a young girl whose slain body was found on the site of an architectural dig.
    In his youth, Detective Ryan went by his given name of Adam Ryan. His two best friends disappeared near the site of this current murder. He escaped their fate, but has no memory of what happened that day in the woods.
    Likeable, if somewhat disfunctional, characters.

    

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A gorgeously written novel that marks the debut of an astonishing new voice in psychological suspense

As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours.

Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox—his partner and closest friend—find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past.

Richly atmospheric, stunning in its complexity, and utterly convincing and surprising to the end, In the Woods is sure to enthrall fans of Mystic River and The Lovely Bones.

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