Tana French
Author
Series
Dublin Murder Squad novels volume 6
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"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...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Six months after the events of In the Woods, Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover. She's transferred out of the murder squad and started a relationship with Detective Sam O'Neill, but she's too badly shaken to make a commitment to him or to her career. Then Sam calls her to the scene of his new case: a young woman found stabbed to death in a small town outside Dublin. The dead girl's ID says her name is Lexie Madison--the identity Cassie...
3) In the woods
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
When he was twelve years old, Adam went playing in the woods one sunny day with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found and Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed agains an oak tree and his shoes filled with blood.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of a brutal attack that left a woman in intensive care and her husband and young children dead, brash cop Scorcher Kennedy and his rookie partner, Richie, struggle with perplexing clues and Scorcher's haunting memories of a shattering incident from his childhood.
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life. He surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family's ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping his family's cramped flat on Faithful Place and running away to London with his girl, Rosie Daly. But on the night they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn't show. Frank took it for granted that she'd given him the brush-off--probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He never went home again. Neither did Rosie. Then,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
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...
8) The searcher
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on these lists
OBD Library Reads 2020 Hall of Fame Titles - Adult
OBD Patron Picks Winter Reading 2023-2024 (Adult)
OBD Staff Picks March
Tuesdays With Friends
OBD Patron Picks Winter Reading 2023-2024 (Adult)
OBD Staff Picks March
Tuesdays With Friends
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Cal Hooper volume 2
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"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....
10) Bez śladu
Author
Language
Polish
Description
W życiu liczy się tylko kilka chwil. Dla Franka Mackeya to te, kiedy miał dziewiętnaście lat i jego dziewczyna Rosie nie pojawiła się w umówionym miejscu. I nie chodziło o zwykłe spotkanie zakochanej pary. Zamierzali wspólnie uciec z Dublina do Londynu. Rosie zniknęła, zostawiwszy list, z którego wynikało, że postanowiła uciec sama. Dwadzieścia dwa lata później Frank pracuje jako detektyw wydziału tajnych operacji. Tymczasem w...
Author
Language
Español
Description
"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 sixteen-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....
12) Ściana sekretów
Author
Language
Polish
Description
Investigating a photograph of a boy whose murder was never solved, aspiring Murder Squad member Stephen Moran partners with detective Antoinette Conway to search for answers in the cliques and rivalries at a Dublin boarding school.
13) Wiedźmie drzewo
Author
Language
Polish
Description
"Toby jest rozpieszczanym przez los lekkoduchem. Ma wspaniałych przyjaciół, świetną dziewczynę i pracę, którą lubi i w której doskonale się sprawdza. Jego beztroskie życie przerywa dramatyczne wydarzenie - Toby przyłapuje na gorącym uczynku włamywaczy i zostaje przez nich brutalnie pobity. Fizyczne i psychiczne rany leczy na prowincji, w domu, w którym jako dziecko spędzał wakacje z kuzynami. Opiekując się śmiertelnie chorym wujem,...
14) Intrusión
Author
Language
Español
Description
"La brigada de homicidios de Dublín dista mucho de ser lo que había soñado la detective Antoinette Conway. El único que parece alegrarse de su presencia es su compañero, Steve Moran. El resto de su trabajo es una acumulación de casos ingratos, novatadas hirientes y acoso laboral. Antoinette es una detective fiera y con la piel muy dura, pero está llegando a su límite. El nuevo caso que le asignan parece sencillo: otra pelea de novios que acaba...