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Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape. After 25 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 then a local kid comes looking for his help. His brother has gone missing and no one, least of all the police, seems to care. Cal wants nothing to do with any kind of investigation, but somehow he can't make himself walk away.

È una fredda notte del 1983 quando il cuore di Frank viene spezzato. Aspetta per ore la fidanzata Rosie sotto l'alone nebbioso di un lampione; i due hanno progettato di fuggire insieme lontano dalla povertà del loro quartiere di Dublino, per vivere di amore e musica a Londra. Ma la ragazza non si presenta. Ventidue anni dopo, viene ritrovata la vecchia valigia di Rosie con dentro i biglietti del traghetto che avrebbe dovuto portarli in Inghilterra.

Antoinette Conway, the tough, abrasive detective from The Secret Place, is still on the Murder Squad, but only just. She's partnered up with Stephen Moran now, and that's going well - but the rest of her working life isn't. Antoinette doesn't play well with others, and there's a vicious running campaign in the squad to get rid of her.

Still traumatised by her brush with a psychopath, Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the murder squad and starts a relationship with fellow detective Sam O'Neill. When he calls her to the scene of his new case, she is shocked to find that the murdered girl is her double. What's more, her ID shows she is Lexie Madison - the identity Cassie used years ago as an undercover detective.

Patrick Spain e i suoi due bambini vengono ritrovati morti in un complesso residenziale mezzo abbandonato per colpa della crisi. Jenny, la madre, è in fin di vita. All'inizio Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy, incaricato delle indagini, pensa alla soluzione piú scontata: un padre sommerso dai debiti, travolto dalla recessione, ha tentato di uccidere i propri cari e si è tolto la vita. Ma ci sono troppi elementi che non quadrano: le telecamere nascoste nell'appartamento, i file cancellati su uno dei computer e il fatto che Jenny temesse che qualcuno fosse entrato in casa loro per spiarli.

Un thriller dal congegno perfetto che spingerà anche voi a entrare "nel bosco".Il romanzo rivelazione di una delle migliori scrittrici di crime del momento.Un pomeriggio di agosto, tre ragazzini scendono dalle loro biciclette per andare a giocare nel bosco lí vicino, e la sera non fanno ritorno a casa. Soltanto uno di loro viene ritrovato, in stato catatonico, avvinghiato a una grossa quercia, le scarpe da ginnastica sporche di sangue. Non ricorda niente di quanto è accaduto e dei suoi compagni non c'è alcuna traccia.

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.

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.

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. They’re coming to get rich, but what they bring is trouble. Waiting for them is Cal Hooper, a retired Chicago detective who moved to rural Ireland looking for some peace. He’s found it, more or less – in his relationship with local woman Lena, and the bond he’s formed with tearaway teenager Trey Reddy. As the two men circle the townland with talk of a scheme to find gold in the mountainside, Cal gets ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey.

In the “compellingˮand “pitch perfectˮ follow-up to Tana French’s runaway best seller In the Woods, Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder Squad - until an urgent telephone call brings her back to an eerie crime scene. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used as an undercover cop. Suddenly, Cassie is back undercover, to find out not only who killed this young woman, but, more importantly, who she was.

A year ago a boy was found murdered at a girlsʼ boarding school, and the case was never solved. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to join Dublin’s Murder Squad when 16-year-old Holly Mackey arrives in his office with a photo of the boy with the caption: “I know who killed him". Stephen joins with Detective Antoinette Conway to reopen the case - beneath the watchful eye of Holly’s father, fellow detective Frank Mackey. The private underworld of teenage girls turns out to be more mysterious and more dangerous than the detectives imagined.

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 to a shine, and dead in her catalogue-perfect living room, next to a table set for a romantic dinner.

Zwei Männer kommen nach Ardnakelty. Einer kommt nach Hause. Einer kommt, um zu sterben. Und ein junges Mädchen steht zwischen allen Fronten. Ein ungewöhnlich heißer Sommer hat Irland im Griff. Die Farmer sind nervös, die Ernten bedroht. Die 15-jährige Trey hat an das kleine Dorf schon ihren Bruder verloren. Etwas Sicherheit bietet der Außenseiterin nur der ehemalige Polizist Cal, der sie liebt wie eine Tochter. Da kommt nach Jahren der Abwesenheit unerwartet Treys Vater zurück. Mit offenen Armen empfängt ihn niemand, doch er bringt einen verheißungsvollen, gefährlichen Plan mit.