Dublin Murder Squad #5
Viking
September 2014
On Sale: September 2, 2014
Featuring: Chris Harper; Detective Stephan Moran; Holly Mackey
529 pages ISBN: 0670026328 EAN: 9780670026326 Kindle: B00IOE4JXS Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
The photo on the card shows a boy who was found murdered, a year ago, on the grounds of a girlsβ boarding school in the leafy suburbs of Dublin. The caption says: I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM.
Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to get a foot in the door of Dublinβs Murder Squadβand one morning, sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey brings him this photo. βThe Secret Place,β a board where the girls at St. Kildaβs School can pin up their secrets anonymously, is normally a mishmash of gossip and covert cruelty, but today someone has used it to reignite the stalled investigation into the murder of handsome, popular Chris Harper. Stephen joins forces with the abrasive Detective Antoinette Conway to find out who and why.
But everything they discover leads them back to Hollyβs close-knit group of friends and their fierce enemies, a rival cliqueβand to the tangled web of relationships that bound all the girls to Chris Harper. Every step in their direction turns up the pressure. Antoinette Conway is already suspicious of Stephenβs links to the Mackey family. St. Kildaβs will go a long way to keep murder outside their walls. Hollyβs father, Detective Frank Mackey, is circling, ready to pounce if any of the new evidence points toward his daughter. And the private underworld of teenage girls can be more mysterious and more dangerous than either of the detectives imagined.
The Secret Place is a powerful, haunting exploration of friendship and loyalty, and a gripping addition to the Dublin Murder Squad series.
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