Tana French

"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...

"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...

"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...

Detective Mike Kennedy weiß, was er tut. Seine Aufklärungsrate ist hoch, seine Methoden sind effektiv. Als in einer Bauruinen-Geisterstadt an der irischen Küste eine junge Familie ausgelöscht wird, ist er überzeugt: Der Fall wird wie ein Uhrwerk ablaufen. Ein uralter, erbarmungsloser Wind weht durch die Siedlung, als die Ermittlungen beginnen. Doch Broken Harbour ist mehr als ein Tatort. Was bedeuten zum Beispiel die rätselhaften Löchern am...