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

"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. But then Trey's long-absent father reappears, bringing along an English millionaire and a scheme to find gold in the townland, and suddenly everything the three of them have been building is under threat. Cal and Lena are both ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey, but Trey doesn't want protecting. What she wants is revenge. From the writer who is "in a class by herself," (The New York Times), a nuanced, atmospheric tale that explores what we'll do for our loved ones, what we'll do for revenge, and what we sacrifice when the two collide"--

Der SPIEGEL-Bestseller jetzt im Taschenbuch »Überzeugende suggestive Kraft.« FAZ »Unwiderstehlicher Lese-Sog.« Brigitte »Durch ihren Roman >Der Sucher< bin ich Fan von Tana French geworden.« Devid Striesow Cal Hooper, ehemaliger Cop aus Chicago, hat sich in den Westen von Irland geflüchtet. Die Natur scheint friedlich, im Dorf nimmt man ihn freundlich auf. Da springt sein langjährig trainierter innerer Alarm an: Er wird beobachtet. Immer wieder taucht ein Kind bei ihm auf. Auf den umliegenden Farmen kommen auf seltsame Weise Tiere zu Tode. Cal gerät in eine Suche, die niemanden verschont. Ein beeindruckender, atmosphärischer Roman über Familie, Gemeinschaft, die Natur und die Gefahr, die von den Menschen kommt. Das neue spannende Werk der renommierten Bestseller-Autorin Tana French. »Ein Meisterwerk in seiner eigenen Liga: Diese soghafte Geschichte über vereitelte Träume ist Tana Frenchs bestes Buch bisher.« Washington Post

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«.

Die Nummer 1 der SPIEGEL-Bestsellerliste jetzt im TaschenbuchEin Fall so dicht wie der Nebel über DublinDie Kollegen in der Dubliner Mordkommission machen der eigenwilligen Antoinette Conway das Leben zur Hölle. Nur ihr Partner Stephen Moran hält noch zu ihr. Als eine junge Frau zu Hause tot aufgefunden wird, sieht alles nach einer schnell aufzuklärenden Beziehungstat aus. Aber warum hat dann jemand aus der Mordkommission ein Interesse, die Ermittlungen zu behindern? Soll Antoinette endgültig aus dem Dezernat fliegen? Weiß außer ihr und Stephen noch jemand, dass sie das Opfer schon einmal gesehen hat? Immer tiefer geraten Ermittler, Verdächtige und Zeugen in einen gefährlichen Vernehmungskreisel.

EIN TOTER. ACHT MÄDCHEN. EIN EINZIGER TAG FÜR DIE WAHRHEIT. Mord im Dubliner Internat: das neue Meisterwerk von Tana French.»>Überwältigend, furchteinflößend, und die Sprache glüht.« Stephen King»Ein absolut hypnotisierender Kriminalroman.« Gillian FlynnAnmutig, behütet und golden, so scheint die abgeschirmte Welt des traditionsreichen Mädcheninternats St. Kilda. Doch vor einem Jahr ist dort im Park ein Junge erschlagen worden. Nun hängt sein Bild am Schwarzen Brett - mit der Überschrift: ICH WEISS, WER IHN GETÖTET HAT. Nur eines von acht Mädchen kann die Karte aufgehängt haben. In zwei Cliquen stehen sie sich gegenüber - unverbrüchliche Freundinnen, erbarmungslose Feindinnen. Der junge Detective Stephen Moran kennt eines der Mädchen, Holly Mackey, aus einem früheren Fall und meint zu wissen, was auf dem Spiel steht. Bis er hinter den Mauern von St. Kilda selbst in das verfängliche Netz aus Träumen und Lügen gerät.»Ich erzähle enthusiastisch jedem, der es hören will: >Lies Tana French!

Du kannst nicht fliehen aus Faithful PlaceFrank Mackey, Undercover-Ermittler, hat seine Familie seit 22 Jahren nicht gesehen. Die vier Geschwister, den trinkenden, gewalttätigen Vater, die ruppige Mutter. Er wollte der Armut und Perspektivlosigkeit seines Viertels für immer entfliehen - zusammen mit seiner ersten großen Liebe Rosie. Doch die hatte ihn versetzt und war allein nach England aufgebrochen, so hat Frank es jedenfalls immer gedacht. Bis Rosies Koffer und ihre Fährtickets in dem alten Abbruchhaus in der Straße seiner Kindheit gefunden werden. Frank muss zurück nach Faithful Place - und feststellen, dass er diesen dunklen Ort immer in sich getragen hat.

'AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE' John Boyne 'One of the most compulsive psychological mysteries since Donna Tartt's The Secret History . . . impossible to put down' The Times 'Terrific - terrifying, amazing, and the prose is incandescent' Stephen King' From one of the greatest writers of the century comes a landmark novel of huge ambition.________________________________________WHAT DO WE HIDE INSIDE OURSELVES?One night changes everything for Toby. He's always led a charmed life - until a brutal attack leaves him damaged and traumatised, unsure even of the person he used to be. He seeks refuge at his family's ancestral home, the Ivy House, filled with memories of wild-strawberry summers and teenage parties with his cousins.But not long after Toby's arrival, a discovery is made: a skull, tucked neatly inside the old wych elm in the garden.As detectives begin to close in, Toby is forced to examine everything he thought he knew about his family, his past, and himself.A spellbinding standalone from a literary writer who turns the crime genre inside out, The Wych Elm asks what we become, and what we're capable of, if we no longer know who we are.________________________________________'To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: A TRULY GREAT WRITER' Gillian Flynn'French offers a masterclass in unreliability . . . dissolving the boundaries between genre and literary fiction' Sunday Times 'The finest crime writer around right now' Mail on Sunday'A brilliant examination of male privilege and family secrets' Guardian'Gripping and suspenseful, with more twists than a rollercoaster, The Wych Elm is a MAGNIFICENT NOVEL' John Boyne'My favourite novel of last year' Sophie Hannah 'HER BEST BOOK. Really, it is not a crime novel: as ever, Tana's scope is so much broader than that' Gillian McAllister'Another one of her rich psychological thrillers that will work its way under your skin' Lucy Mangan, Stylist'Tana French's best and most intricately nuanced novel yet. . . Get ready for the whiplash brought on by its final twists and turns' The New York Times'I DROP EVERYTHING for a new Tana French book - feign illness, cancel plans and miss deadlines - and it's always worth it. This mystery about family, memory and the cracks in both will haunt you for a long, long time' Erin Kelly 'The Trespasser contains the most tense and serpentine interrogation scenes outside of John le Carr ' Mark Lawson, Guardian

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

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.

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.

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.

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 . . .