![]() Moran teams up with Detective Antoinette Conway, a marvelous addition to French’s stable of Murder Squad characters. ![]() (French has said the inspiration for the Secret Place came from the popular website .) She brings Stephen a photo of Chris, captioned in ransom-letter text, “I know who killed him.” The photo had been posted on a bulletin board called the Secret Place, a safe space meant for students to anonymously unburden themselves of things they weren’t comfortable sharing with friends and family. ![]() The murder of Chris Harper, a student at the neighboring boys’ school, happened about a year ago and the case is cold, until Detective Stephen Moran, last seen in 2010’s “Faithful Place,” receives a visit by Frank Mackey’s daughter Holly (also of “Faithful Place”). Her latest, “The Secret Place,” is a mesmerizing story set in a girls’ boarding school in Dublin. Tana French is irrefutably one of the best crime fiction writers out there. ![]()
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