Bücher von Tana French

'A richly told tale of tangled loyalties. French ratchets up the tension in increments . . . By the end, these characters have taken on such solidity that, long after finishing it, I often catch myself wondering how they're doing - a testament to the author's mastery of her craft' GUARDIANReturn to the dark underbelly of Ardnakelty in the thrilling new sequel to The Searcher.-----It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in the village. They're coming for gold. What they bring is trouble.Two years have passed since retired Police Detective Cal Hooper moved from Chicago to the West of Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less - in his relationship with local woman Lena, and the bond he's formed with half-wild teenager Trey. So when two men turn up with a money-making scheme to find gold in the townland, Cal gets ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey. Because one of the men is no stranger: he's Trey's father.But Trey doesn't want protecting. What she wants is revenge.Crackling with tension and slow-burn suspense, The Hunter explores what we'll do for our loved ones, what we'll do for revenge, and what we sacrifice when the two collide, from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Tana French. ---Nobody writes tension like Tana French:'Terrific - terrifying, amazing' STEPHEN KING'One of the greats of contemporary crime fiction' IAN RANKIN'The most important crime novelist to emerge in the last ten years' WASHINGTON POST'A truly great writer' GILLIAN FLYNN'Among the first rank of great literary novelists' OBSERVER'A masterful, beautiful mystery...' CHRIS WHITAKER'Crime fiction's biggest contemporary star' GUARDIAN'Completely, indescribably magnificent' MARIAN KEYES'Lyrical, suspenseful, unpredictable' HARLAN COBEN'Comes closer to perfection than anything I've read in the last decade' SARAH HILARY'A spectacularly talented writer' LOUISE O'NEILL

Identität, Erinnerung und Mord: der neue große Roman der SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Autorin.Toby Hennessy, 28, führt ein unbeschwertes Leben in Dublin. Bis er eines Nachts in seiner Wohnung brutal zusammengeschlagen wird. Toby überlebt nur knapp, kann sich nicht mehr auf seine Erinnerungen verlassen. Er flüchtet sich in das »Efeuhaus« - das alte Anwesen der Familie, wo er sich um seinen sterbenden Onkel Hugo kümmern soll. Doch der dunkle Garten des Hauses birgt ein schreckliches Geheimnis.»Tana Frenchs bisher bestes Buch: Krimi, Familiengeschichte, psychologische Studie. Spannend, berührend und beunruhigend bis zum Schluss.« hr2 Kultur»In der besonderen Zone zwischen Spannung und Literatur, mit einer Sprache wie Satin, ein Glücksfall für den Leser.« Stephen King»Tana Frenchs bisher bester Roman.« New York TimesVon der international gefeierten irischen Schriftstellerin Tana French, Autorin von »Grabesgrün«, »Totengleich«, »Geheimer Ort«.

The masterful Richard & Judy pick, from the Sunday Times bestselling author.Winner of the Irish Book Awards Crime Fiction Book of the Year.'A TRULY GREAT WRITER' Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl'ONE OF THE BEST CRIME WRITERS WORKING TODAY' GuardianYou can beat one killer. Beating your own squad is a whole other thing. Being on the Dublin Murder squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed. Her working life is a stream of thankless cases and harassment. Antoinette is tough, but she's getting close to the breaking point. The new case looks like a regular lovers' quarrel gone bad. Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty and lying dead next to a table set for a romantic dinner. There's nothing unusual about her - except that Antoinette has seen her somewhere before.And her death won't stay neat. Other detectives want her to arrest Aislinn's boyfriend, fast. There's a shadowy figure at the end of Antoinette's road. And everything they find out about Aislinn takes her further from the simple woman she seemed to be.Antoinette knows the harassment has turned her paranoid, but she can't tell just how far gone she is. Is this the case that will make her career - or break it? 'ONE OF THE BEST THRILLER WRITERS WE HAVE' Observer

When he was twelve years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods with his two best 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. He had no memory of what had happened. Twenty years on, Rob Ryan - the child who came back - is a detective in the Dublin police force. He's changed his name. No one knows about his past. Then a little girl's body is found at the site of the old tragedy and Rob is drawn back into the mystery. Knowing that he would be thrown off the case if his past were revealed, Rob takes a fateful decision to keep quiet but hope that he might also solve the twenty-year-old mystery of the woods.

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.

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. With no leads, no suspects and no clues to Lexie's real identity, Cassie's old boss spots the opportunity of a lifetime: send Cassie undercover in her place, to tempt the killer out of hiding to finish the job.