num_pages: 429
description: As 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. 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. 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.
language: English
title: In the Woods
titlecomplete: In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
characters: Rob Ryan, Sam O'Neill, Detective Quigley, Cassie Maddox, Superintendent O'Kelly
genres: Ireland, Mystery, Adult, Suspense, Thriller, Audiobook, Contemporary, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 387431
places: Ireland
series: Dublin Murder Squad
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Barry Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best First Mystery Novel, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best First Novel by an American Author
publisher: Viking