in the woods – Cannonball Read 17

In the Woods by Tana French

December 30, 2023 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

I may have read fewer books this year but made an effort to start reading the ones I own. I owe it to my bookshelves to continue the trend in 2024. Tana French’s In the Woods has been on my shelf for way too long. It lived up to all the expectations from past CBR reviews. And I got to “travel” to Dublin for the CBR15 passport challenge. CBR15 Passport Challenge: Books from different countries (book 1 of 3) The first Dublin Murder Squad novel […]

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Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: dublin murder squad, Dublin Murder Squad #1, in the woods, Ireland, irish detective, mystery, Tana French

teresaelectro's CBR15 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: dublin murder squad, Dublin Murder Squad #1, in the woods, Ireland, irish detective, mystery, Tana French ·

“The only way I can put it is that we recognized, too surely even for surprise, that we shared the same currency.”

In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad #1) by Tana French

March 13, 2022 by faintingviolet 6 Comments

I can see in this book where everything I loved about The Searcher got its start. However, I am not sad to no longer be in the minds’ eye of Detective Rob Ryan. The narration of In the Woods is entirely in first person, he is telling the reader the story as it happened from somewhere in the near future. He opens the book by announcing that he is an unreliable narrator. It is both true and not, depending on how you define that style […]

If the rest of the series is like this one, I just might turn into a mystery fan

In the Woods by Tana French

April 2, 2021 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

Detective Rob Ryan and his partner, detective Cassie Maddox, have picked up a case of solving the seemingly ritualistic murder of a young girl in the woods of a small community. The site of the murder is a much-argued-over piece of land. Some in the community wish to preserve the land as a historical site including the team of archeologists currently completing an excavation. Others want to use the land to build a freeway. Complicating things even further is the fact that Detective Rob Ryan […]

Behold: Your Quarantimes Binge Read

In the Woods by Tana French

June 18, 2020 by cheerbrarian 2 Comments

“In these trying times” (said with solemn radio announcer voice) it is hard to focus on anything and reading has been a bit of an uphill climb for me. I want something that’s a bit of a distraction, something I can sink my teeth into. There is one unread Tana French book that I currently own and I’ve been saving it because she is THE BEST but then, once I read it, I have no more waiting in the reads (sob). My husband suggested I […]

I WANT TO PUNCH THE ENDING OF THIS BOOK IN THE TEETH.

July 17, 2017 by kella 3 Comments

Oh sweet mother, did this book ever frustrate me. On one hand, the premise is interesting – a girl shows up murdered in a forest; the lead detective on the case was involved in the suspicious disappearance of two of his friends when he was a child – in the exact same forest. Dun dun duuuunnnnn…. Who killed this girl? What happened to his friends all those years ago? Are the two cases related? 608 PAGES LATER AND ONLY ONE OF THOSE QUESTIONS WAS ANSWERED. […]

Into the woods, it’s time to go, I hate to leave, I have to though. Into the woods, it’s time, and so I must begin my journey

February 21, 2016 by yesknopemaybe 2 Comments

I’ve been meaning to read this for a long time (it’s been on my shelves for years) and I’m so glad I finally picked it up. I was in the perfect mood for a dark, twisty mystery. And this is exactly the kind of mystery I tend to go for: detailed, melancholy, with complex characters. In The Woods centers on Rob Ryan, detective in the Dublin Murder Squad. When he was twelve years old, his best friends went missing in the woods behind their neighborhood […]

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