Tana French

"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....

"A brilliant new work of suspense from "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years." (Washington Post) From the writer who "inspires cultic devotion in readers" (The New Yorker) and has been called "incandescent" by Stephen King, "absolutely mesmerizing" by Gillian Flynn, and "unputdownable" (People), comes a gripping new novel that turns a crime story inside out. Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who's dodged a scrape at work...

In the aftermath of a brutal attack that left a woman in intensive care and her husband and young children dead, brash cop Scorcher Kennedy and his rookie partner, Richie, struggle with perplexing clues and Scorcher's haunting memories of a shattering incident from his childhood.

"Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping his family's cramped flat on Faithful Place and running away to London with his girl, Rosie Daly. But on the night they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn't show. Frank took it for granted that she'd given him the brush-off--probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He never went home again. Neither did Rosie. Then,...

Six months after the events of In the Woods, Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover. She's transferred out of the murder squad and started a relationship with Detective Sam O'Neill, but she's too badly shaken to make a commitment to him or to her career. Then Sam calls her to the scene of his new case: a young woman found stabbed to death in a small town outside Dublin. The dead girl's ID says her name is Lexie Madison--the identity Cassie...

A las afueras de Dublín, en una zona medio abandonada, han encontrado los cadáveres de un padre y sus dos hijos. La madre también ha sido atacada y ahora está en el hospital. Parece otro crimen más causado por la crisis económica y la desesperación en el seno de una familia. Pero el inspector Mick «Scorcher» Kennedy no se deja engañar por las apariencias y no tarda en descubrir numerosos detalles que no cuadran.

A homicide and the investigations of the highest caliber, it's me. Inspector Kennedy to serve you. At the moment, I'm a big blow to Broken Harbour, a village of the damned at the edge of the Irish Sea. Just yards abandoned, and a house-fortress. Inside, a family decimated, cameras everywhere and walls with holes. This ghost haunts me.

La detective Cassie Maddox ha sido trasladada fuera de la Brigada de Homicidios de Dub̕ln, hasta que una llamada tele̤fnica urgente la lleva de nuevo a una espeluznante escena del crimen. Para sorpresa de todos, la ̕vctima es iďntica a Cassie y, adèms, lleva consigo una identificac̤in en la que aparece el nombre de Alexandra Madison, un alias que Cassie utiliz̤ una vez como poli̕ca encubierta. A̕s, Cassie vuelve a trabajar de in̤cgnito...