In the Woods
Tana French · first published 2007 · ISBN 9780143113492
A Dublin detective returns to the woods where his childhood friends disappeared twenty years earlier, when his own memory of the event was erased by trauma. Now another murder echoes the old case, forcing him to confront both the case and the gaps in his own mind.
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The Best Crime Novels of the 2000s
French's debut announced a radical new voice in crime fiction, one that could blend the procedural with the psychological and make you question the narrator's reliability. It established her as perhaps the decade's most important new writer.