Tana French is the Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling author of In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbour, The Secret Place, The Trespasser and The Wych Elm. Her books have won awards including the Edgar, Anthony, Barry and Macavity awards, the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Best Crime Fiction. She grew up in Ireland, Italy, the US and Malawi, and trained as an actor at Trinity College Dublin. She lives in Dublin with her family.
This is a tour de force of suspense and storytelling. Comes closer to perfection than anything I've read in the last decade
SARAH HILARY
French offers a masterclass in unreliability
SUNDAY TIMES
This is completely, indescribably magnificent. Tana French is a pure genius
MARIAN KEYES
A story of redemption and friendship, love and betrayal, it is a work of great strength and beauty
DAILY MAIL
To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: a truly great writer
GILLIAN FLYNN
I'm a big fan of Tana French
IAN RANKIN
The Wych Elm should cement French's place in the first rank of great literary novelists
OBSERVER
This book confirms Tana French as [crime fiction's] biggest contemporary star
GUARDIAN
Terrific - terrifying, amazing, and the prose is incandescent
STEPHEN KING
This mystery about family, memory and the cracks in both will haunt you for a long, long time
ERIN KELLY
A tale of flawed characters, complex relationships and elusive loyalties. Subtle and powerful
CHRIS HAMMER