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.

In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin — half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned — two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squad's star detective. At first he and his rookie partner, Richie, think this is a simple one: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, tried to kill his wife Jenny, and finished off with himself. But there are too many inexplicable details and the evidence is pointing in two directions at once. Scorcher's personal life is tugging for his attention. Seeing the case on the news has sent his sister Dina off the rails again, and she's resurrecting something that Scorcher thought he had tightly under control: what happened to their family, one summer at Broken Harbour, back when they were children. The neat compartments of his life are breaking down, and the sudden tangle of work and family is putting both at risk...

«Тана Френч — новая звезда остросюжетной литературы, первый роман которой «В лесной чаще» был удостоен нескольких литературных наград, в том числе престижной премии «Эдгар». Простой паренек из рабочего квартала Фэйтфул-плейс Фрэнк Мэки и его возлюбленная Рози Дейли решают вместе бежать из дома. Но Рози не приходит к месту встречи в назначенный час… Проходят годы, Фрэнк делает отличную карьеру в полиции, но все эти годы его продолжает мучить вопрос: почему тогда, в юности, любимая девушка его предала? Страшная правда открывается неожиданно. И с этого дня судьба обрушивает на Фрэнка удары один за другим. Чудовищные события закручиваются в немыслимый узел, затягивая в него родных, друзей и даже обожаемую дочь Фрэнка. И в какой-то момент он становится перед выбором: что для него важнее — долг полицейского или долг мужчины?»

The course of Frank Mackey's life was set by one defining moment when he was nineteen. The moment his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed to turn up for their rendezvous in Faithful Place, failed to run away with him to London as they had planned. Frank never heard from her again. Twenty years on, Frank is still in Dublin, working as an undercover cop. He's cut all ties with his dysfunctional family. Until his sister calls to say that Rosie's suitcase has been found. Frank embarks on a journey into his past that demands he reevaluate everything he believes to be true.

Говорят, у каждого человека есть свой двойник. Но случалось ли кому-нибудь его встретить? Детектив Кэсси Мэддокс выезжает на место преступления и, увидев жертву, теряет дар речи: убитая девушка по имени Лекси похожа на нее, как сестра-близнец. Полиция решает воспользоваться этим обстоятельством, чтобы поймать преступника на живца, и, пустив слух, будто девушку удалось спасти, внедряет Кэсси в ближайшее окружение убитой. Казалось бы, все идет по плану… но с каждым днем у полиции возникает все больше вопросов. Кто из «близких» Лекси вновь нанесет смертельный удар? И почему их сотрудник, детектив Кэсси Мэддокс, так похожа на жертву?

Adam Ryan went playing in the woods with his two friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found, and Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree and his shoes filled with blood. 20 years on, Rob Ryan — the child who came back — is a detective in the Dublin police force. He`s changed his name.