![]() ![]() Ryan's partner, Maddox, is a kickass heroine-smart, hardworking, and tough. The detectives are young and live young lives-solving cases together while eating and drinking well into the night. ![]() You do, however, find his motivations and story undeniably compelling.ĭark fairy tale themes and the unreliability of childhood memories haunt Ryan and In the Woods, making this a mystery teens will love. As a reader, you don't trust Ryan, who narrates In the Woods, from the very beginning. While investigating Ryan is haunted by partial memories, neighbors from his past, and faulty judgment. He begs his partner-the wonderful Cassie Maddox-to keep his secret in the hopes that his past will help them to solve the case. Now, obviously, Ryan should have removed himself from this case, but finds he can't. When he was found, he was covered in blood and had no memory of what happened. ![]() The situation is eerily familiar to Ryan: When he was twelve he also disappeared in the same woods with two friends. When the body of a 12-year-old girl is found in the woods outside Dublin, he's called to investigate. Rob Ryan is a young detective on the Dublin murder squad. ![]() I'm always in the market for a good mystery, so when Tana French's In the Woods won a 2008 Edgar Award for best first novel by an American author, I ordered it right away from audible.* From the first pages I knew In the Woods is a novel teen readers will love as well. ![]()
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