It's on the long side, and could have benefited from some editorial fat-trimming in places, but it's enjoyably well written and the winning combination of intricate plotting and psychological depth means that the reader's patience will be amply rewarded. As well as divides of age and class, French handles the gender clashes superbly. From the multi-award-winning author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller In the Woods, The Secret Place is a searing novel of psychological suspense.
I found myself longing for the characters of past Dublin Murder Squad books. I enjoyed the book because of Tana Frenchs wonderful writing but found the setting of the girls school a bit jarring. Kilda's, a girls' boarding school in Dublin. Plot summary Much of the novel takes place at St. named it one of the best books of 2014 in the mystery, thriller and suspense category.
The Washington Post named the book one of the five best thrillers of 2014. Here.the incessant and often vicious jockeying for position is described with such appalling accuracy as to leave this reviewer practically weeping with gratitude that she is no longer a teenager. The Secret Place started slow, built up a good head of steam and then cruised to a quiet climax. The Secret Place is a 2014 novel by Tana French set in Ireland. Kildas School can pin up their secrets anonymously, is normally a mishmash of gossip and covert cruelty, but today someone has used it to reignite the stalled investigation into the murder of handsome, popular Chris. 'The Secret Place,' a board where the girls at St. Joanne Heffernan, a rival clique's queen bee-dealing out casual humiliation even to her acolytes and claiming virtual, if not actual, droit du seigneur over any boy she fancies-is an absolute masterpiece of vulnerable cruelty. The secret place by French, Tana, author. The characterization of the girls is particularly strong: all the manufactured attitude, intense loyalty, harsh judgment and vying for alpha status with a rival clique in the way that only adolescent girls can.
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