As Detective Ryan proceeds to investigate, he is desperate to bring this killer to justice and perhaps to figure out what happened that day in 1984.Įvery once in a while I get the itch for a good mystery, and this book had been politely collecting dust on my shelf for quite a while now. A child’s body has been found in those same woods. Years later, the boy is now a homicide detective in Dublin, and a case from Knocknaree comes across his desk. Despite intensive investigation and media scrutiny, the case is never solved.
By nightfall, two of them are missing and the last boy, Adam Ryan, is found, traumatized, in a tree with a sneaker filled with blood, gashes in his clothes and gaping holes where memories of that day’s events should be. It’s 1984 and three twelve-year-olds, best friends who live in Knocknaree, Ireland, are playing in the woods. Richly atmospheric, stunning in its complexity, and utterly convincing and surprising to the end, In the Woods is sure to enthrall fans of Mystic River and The Lovely Bones.By Jennifer Marie Lin on May 7th, 2015 (Last Updated Oct 7th, 2018) Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox-his partner and closest friend-find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret.
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. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. The debut novel of an astonishing voice in psychological suspenseĪs dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home.
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