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. Tanya French is the author of "In the Woods," winner of the Edgars, Anthony McCavity and Barry Awards for best first novel. Print run 200,000.
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