

The Secret Place is the latest installment in French’s Dublin Murder Squad series, a masterful set of five detective novels that constructs a deeply observed portrait of modern Dublin.

But their longing for what that storybook view represents-home, family, belonging-fuels a dense tangle of friendships and rivalries that the novel’s protagonist, Detective Stephen Moran, has to unravel to solve the mystery of a murdered teen boy. Kilda’s, a private school in a leafy Dublin suburb. The city seems far away to these girls, whose lives are largely confined to the grounds of St.
