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Book 5 of 5 in the Dublin Murder Squad Series
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Product Details

  • Series: Dublin Murder Squad
  • Hardcover: 452 pages
  • Publisher: VIKING; 1st edition (September 2, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0670026328
  • ISBN-13: 978-0670026326
  • Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1.4 x 9.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1,490 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #86,737 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 starsI have loved Tana French's writing from book #1
By Deb on September 10, 2014
Format: Hardcover
I began this novel with lovely anticipation. I have loved Tana French's writing from book #1. At page 200-something, I found myself actually counting the number of pages left but wanting to know who-done-it. Now at page 300-something, I'm finding I just don't care.

Can't speed read this story - might miss one of French's lovely, aching passages - which are there. Her prose is amazing and wonderful. But - OMG ! Enough with the constant re-caps and going over and over and over the same thing.

The chapters alternate and more is revealed in each one - and that started out being fun. But reveal faster, please - the world might end before this story does! Where the heck was Ms. French's editor on this one?

I hate not loving this novel.
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3.0 out of 5 starsRead if you're a fan, do not start here if you're new to the series.
By S. Phillips on September 5, 2014
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If you are a fan of Tana French, I think you should go ahead and read this. However if you're new to her work, skip this and go read The Likeness instead. Something was lacking in the substance of this novel that I have hard time articulating. Her writing style is stellar and the overall plot compelling. Something in the execution just absolutely fell flat and false to me. I think I felt that I needed more background on the girl's relationships to render their choices believable. Their texting/Kardashianesque dialogue should have belied a greater depth of their relationship and intentions than we experienced. Any exposition on the girls' friendships and motivations felt cursory and flat. Exploring the friendships and personalities deeper would have lent more credibility to the actions. I understand the book was largely from an adult male's perspective, but the deeper elements of the girls' story shouldn't have been marginalized. I love suspense stories about young adults in tight friend packs, and perhaps I've been spoiled by the stories built by Wolitzer, Lippman, and Tartt around too-close friendships. What surprises me is that French did a bang-up job of this herself in The Likeness! All this said...I still read it in 3 days. That is the power of French!
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1.0 out of 5 starsBoring, inane and repetitious
By Poetry Lady on September 30, 2014
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Who wrote this mess? Where was her editor? Where was the character development? The plot? I have loved all of Tana French's previous novels, especially Into the Woods, and I just can't believe she wrote this. This could be used as a primer on how not to write a novel. I so wanted to love it and now I just want to bang my head into a wall. I threw this book in my own secret place - the trash can.
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1.0 out of 5 starsWeird!
By Alexandria L. Burton on October 3, 2014
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Good writer - intelligent and insightful at times - but so drawn out, repetitive and boring! Unlike some of the other reviewers, I actually liked some of the characters- especially the two detectives & Mackey - but I grew so tired of their never-ending brain storming sessions- enough already - now get on with it!
I really didn't like the whole supernatural stuff thrown in there either - why? Made no sense! Seems like some questions were never answered - while others were answered over & over again- it's almost like the author forgot where she left off when she took a break, so just jumped back in any old place
The ending unfolded way too slowly - geez - we get it !
I'm exhausted just from the effort it took to finish this book - better luck next time!
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1.0 out of 5 starsLoved all the past Tana French books and had pre-ordered ...
By michelle l stoll on October 5, 2014
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Loved all the past Tana French books and had pre-ordered this with anticipation, however this underwhelmed. Almost an entire book of 2 detectives questioning of a group of girls in a private school in one afternoon, with alternating chapters of the girl's lives prior to the murder they were investigating. I was dying for them just to leave the schoolroom where they were doing the questioning. Dying for the "testimony" of any of the girls to reveal something at all and not be so painstakingly boring. Dying for the snippets of the girl's lives to make more sense - their lives and backstory were clouded with paranormal/witchcraft-y? super powers that didn't make sense and weren't clarified at they end - were the powers real? Were they imagined by the girls? Did they even tie in to the story? Would skip this one.
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5.0 out of 5 starsLiterary Fiction That Just Happens to be a Mystery
By Fairbanks Reader TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on September 2, 2014
Format: Hardcover
I have read all of Tana French's books and she is on her mark with her latest, The Secret Place. It is filled with atmosphere, great characterization, language that calls for the reader not to skip even one word, and a story that keeps getting better with each page. Ms. French writes literary fiction that just happens to be a mystery as well.The Secret Place is about a lot of things: friendships, jealousies, love, teenagers, police investigations, and murder.

Holly Mackey, 16 years old and the daughter of a detective who was featured in one of Ms. French's earlier books, is a student at St. Kilda's, a posh girls' school in Ireland. The Secret Place is a noticeboard in the school. If you have a secret, you put it on a card and tack it to the board. "The students use images and captions to convey their messages anonymously." Holly finds a note on the board that says "I know who killed him". The note refers to the murder of Chris Harper, a student at the boys' school next door. His head was bashed in about one year ago and his murder has become a cold case. Holly takes the card to Detective Stephen Moran, a detective in the cold case department of police headquarters.

Detective Moran is 32 years old and wants to move up. "Cold cases is good. Murder is better." "I'd been wishing for the murder squad for a long time." He takes the card to Detective Antoinette Conway of the murder squad who was the lead detective in the Christopher Harper murder. Her partner recently retired and Moran sees an opening for himself. "Conway wasn't going to want me. She was getting me anyway." Together, the two of them go to St. Kilda's and re-open the investigation.

What they find at St. Kilda's shakes them to the core. The adolescents are secretive, mocking, and altogether not helpful.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsand especially good with dialogue

I found Tana French to be an exceptional writer, and especially good with dialogue, even though two of the three detectives were overly stereotyped. Read more

Published 3 days ago by Michael Gutmann
2.0 out of 5 starsOMG the High School Girl Babble Made me Crazy!

The Secret Place is a 2014 novel by Tana French set in Ireland. Anyone who knows me or frequents this blog knows I am a die-hard Tana French fan. I loved the four previous books. Read more

Published 7 days ago by Tina in Florida
2.0 out of 5 starsThe most handsome and charismatic of Lotharios is struck down and left...

This book was waaaaaay to long. I think they could have cut half of it and it would have been much more engaging. Read more

Published 8 days ago by Nancy R.
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Thus author is superb. Books are well written and keep the reader engrossed. Secret place is no exception!

Published 18 days ago by Livy625
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat read

Great read, but make sure you start the series from the beginning

Published 21 days ago by alexis
4.0 out of 5 starsNot as good as the first 4.

My least favorite in the series. It doesn't have the same flow as the previous books. I'm not saying it's not worth reading, but I didn't connect with the characters in this book... Read more

Published 22 days ago by C Moses
3.0 out of 5 starsLike omg stop

I love Ms French's writing very much, and I enjoyed the prose in this one, the nods to witchcraft, and the detectives. Read more

Published 26 days ago by esme
4.0 out of 5 starsDetailed, well-plotted mystery

The fifth installment in Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series reintroduces some familiar faces, notably Holly Mackey, Frank Mackey, and Stephen Moran from French's "Faithful... Read more

Published 26 days ago by K.L. Hamilton (Just a Cat and a Book By Her Side)
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent continuation of the Dublin Murder Squad series

It's been awhile since I've read Tana French, mostly because I don't see anything new coming soon and so I've waited as long as I could in hopes of shortening those dark days until... Read more

Published 1 month ago by Jeffrey M Bluhm
1.0 out of 5 starsIt was very weak writing as compared to the author's other books

The story was not good. Very weak.

Published 1 month ago by Marilyn DeNicola

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