The bestselling novel by Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher , is required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting ( The New York Times ).
Is this case another step in the campaign to force her off the squad, or are there darker currents flowing beneath its polished surface?.
Antoinette knows the harassment has turned her paranoid, but she can\'t tell just how far gone she is.
And everything they find out about Aislinn takes her further from the glossy, passive doll she seemed to be.
Aislinnʼs friend is hinting that she knew Aislinn was in danger.
There\'s a shadowy figure at the end of Antoinetteʼs road.
Other detectives are trying to push Antoinette and Steve into arresting Aislinn\'s boyfriend, fast.
And that her death won\'t stay in its neat by-numbers box.
There\'s nothing unusual about her--except that Antoinette\'s seen her somewhere before.
Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty, groomed-to-a-shine, and dead in her catalog-perfect living room, next to a table set for a romantic dinner.
Their new case looks like yet another by-the-numbers lovers\' quarrel gone bad.
Antoinette is savagely tough, but she\'s getting close to the breaking point.
The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment.
Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she\'s there. -- People In bestselling author Tana French\'s newest tour de force ( The New York Times ), being on the Murder Squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be.
Atmospheric and unputdownable.
She inspires cultic devotion in readers ( The New Yorker ) and is the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years ( The Washington Post ).
The bestselling novel by Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher , is required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting ( The New York Times )
