Author

Tana French

5 award wins, 10 nominations across 5 books.

Tana French (May 10, 1973) is an American-Irish novelist and theatrical actress. Her debut novel In the Woods (2007), a psychological mystery, won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards for best first novel. She lives in Dublin. She is referred to as the 'First Lady of Irish Crime'. Source: Wikipedia

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Broken HarborFaithful PlaceIn the WoodsThe HunterThe Secret Place
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Broken Harbor

1 Award Won2 Nominations

Published 2012 · 480 pages

The mesmerizing fourth novel of the Dublin murder squad by New York Times bestselling author Tana French

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Faithful Place

5 Nominations

Published 2010-07-13 · 448 pages

Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping hisi 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 dumped him-probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He never went home again. Neither did Rosie.

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In the Woods

4 Awards Won

Published 2008-05-27 · 578 pages

A gorgeously written novel that marks the debut of an astonishing new voice in psychological suspenseAs dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours.Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret.

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The Hunter

1 Nomination
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Gold Dagger
2025
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The Secret Place

2 Nominations

Published 2014 · 518 pages

Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to join Dublin’s Murder Squad when sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey arrives in his office with a photo of a popular boy whose body was found at a girls’ boarding school a year earlier. The photo had been posted at “The Secret Place,” the school’s anonymous gossip board, and the caption says “I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM.” Stephen joins with Detective Antoinette Conway to reopen the case—beneath the watchful eye of Holly’s father, fellow detective Frank Mackey.

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