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Teenage Kinks

The Secret Place by Tana French

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Teenagers are weird. I like them. I teach high school; it’s not a job where you’ll last long if you don’t like the target demographic. But they are weird. Half their brains are all grown up and the other half is stuck in childhood. Not always the right parts. They are fiercely loyal, especially to their friends, and they’re at the point where they are developing their own world. Parents not allowed. Except when they get stuck, of course. If you’re lucky. Detective Stephen Moran is stuck in one of the least desired police departments: cold cases. One day, Holly […]

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12/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 24 |

Belated Bingo – Not My Wheelhouse

The Secret Place by Tana French

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TANA FRENCH TANA FRENCH. TANA. FRENCH. TANA FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENCH. I. Love. Tana French. She. Is. The Best. The reason that this was on my bingo card as “Not My Wheelhouse” because I pondered and was surprised to discover that murder mysteries are no longer my wheelhouse, it is just not a genre I really turn to anymore, and um, that’s got to change, because never am I more engrossed then when watching a murder mystery unfold and then unravel. In doing some reading about French I saw things like “cult following” and “diehard fans” and um, see previous opening. Anyone who […]

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12/2/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 43 |

Keeping things interesting

The Secret Place by Tana French

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3.5 stars. The Secret Place was somewhat of a departure for Tana French. I’m not sure if it was quite as successful for me personally, but it makes me really happy to know she’s experimenting and keeping things fresh. She could just churn out novels and people would read them even with diminishing returns at this point. It makes me love her all the more to know that she has no intention of phoning it in. Detective Stephen Moran is surprised one morning to see Holly Mackey in the office of the cold case division. She’s brought him a piece […]

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12/31/2016 | Post by

“If I’ve learned one thing today, it’s that teenage girls make Moriarty look like a babe in the woods.”

The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5) by Tana French

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Well, there goes my last Tana French book. When is the next one??? (Seriously. When. I need it.) Like the previous four Tana French books (all part of the Dublin Murder Squad series), this book follows a detective from the Murder Squad as they investigate a murder, all the while it gets sneakily personal and deep. Also like previous Tana French books, it is secretly obsessed with friendship, how connections between people are formed and broken. This one she breaks the mold a little, though. Instead of following one detective as he/she investigates, all the while doing a deep character study […]

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11/3/2015 | Post by

Not your typical boarding school brats

The Secret Place by Tana French

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The Secret Place by Tana French was far better than I’d expected. I picked it up because it gets great reviews and because I was interested in moving away from the more romantic fare that I had been reading and back into a mystery. I didn’t realize it until after I’d finished the book, but this is the fifth in the Dublin Murder squad series, and while it stands on it’s own, I have the feeling that there were some references to the previous novels that I didn’t catch. A year after popular Chris Harper was murdered in a field between the grounds of his […]

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