In the Woods by Tana French
ILAB’S Book Club “Book
of the Month”
Twenty
years prior to the novel's events, twelve year-old Adam and his two best
friends failed to come home after playing in the familiar woods bordering their
Irish housing estate. A search is organized and the Gardaí
find Adam shivering, clawing the bark of a nearby tree, with blood on his shoes
and slash marks on his back. He is unable to tell them what happened or where
his friends are. They are never found and his amnesia holds to the present day.
He now goes by his middle name, Rob, to avoid media attention and is a
detective with An Garda Síochana's Murder Squad.
The
plot of the novel circles around the murder of a twelve-year-old girl, Katy
Devlin, whose case Rob and his partner Cassie Maddox are assigned to
investigate. The body is found in the same woods where Rob's friends
disappeared, at an archaeological dig site, and the coincidence is enough to
make Rob nervous, though he insists to his partner that he is fine.
Cassie
and Rob have been partners for a few years and get along famously, teasing one
another and completing one another's thoughts. Cassie is one of the few people
who knows the truth about Rob's past. There are many rumors that they are
romantically involved, though both of them scoff at the idea, despite the fact
that they live almost like a married couple, spending a lot of time at Cassie's
cooking dinner for one another, drinking wine, and having Rob crash on Cassie's
couch across the room.
I
found this book to be very engaging and an awesome read for those of us who
love suspense. It is a definite must read that will keep a reader engrossed
until the very end.
HAPPY
READING!!!
