The Secret Place

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Call Number: BOCD Mystery, Adult BOCD / Fiction / Mystery / French, Tana
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch

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Compact discs.
Read by Stephen Hogan and Lara Hutchinson.
"The photo on the card shows a boy who was found murdered, a year ago, on the grounds of a girls' boarding school in the leafy suburbs of Dublin. The caption says I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to get a foot in the door of Dublin's Murder Squad--and one morning, sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey brings him this photo. "The Secret Place," a board where the girls at St. Kilda's School can pin up their secrets anonymously, is normally a mishmash of gossip and covert cruelty, but today someone has used it to reignite the stalled investigation into the murder of handsome, popular Chris Harper. Stephen joins forces with the abrasive Detective Antoinette Conway to find out who and why. But everything they discover leads them back to Holly's close-knit group of friends and their fierce enemies, a rival clique--and to the tangled web of relationships that bound all the girls to Chris Harper. Every step in their direction turns up the pressure. Antoinette Conway is already suspicious of Stephen's links to the Mackey family. St. Kilda's will go a long way to keep murder outside their walls. Holly's father, Detective Frank Mackey, is circling, ready to pounce if any of the new evidence points toward his daughter. And the private underworld of teenage girls can be more mysterious and more dangerous than either of the detectives imagined" -- from publisher's web site.

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wind and unwind, twist and fray and merge submitted by camelsamba on August 28, 2020, 4:17pm I like the way this story was told. The chapters alternate between times and points of view. The detectives are operating in the present, in a one day. The girls are flowing through a couple of years. The story unwinds and twists and frays and comes together. I have no idea if the chain of reasoning the detectives use is reasonable, but it was fascinating to follow (especially as it does not directly line up with the other). In the audiobook, the alternating chapters have different narrators. Some of the language is beautifully descriptive - if i had been reading a print edition, I'm sure I would have lingered over some paragraphs (and gone back to check elements of the plot).