Tana French is the Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling author of In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbour, The Secret Place, The Trespasser and The Wych Elm. Her books have won awards including the Edgar, Anthony, Barry and Macavity awards, the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Best Crime Fiction. She grew up in Ireland, Italy, the US and Malawi, and trained as an actor at Trinity College Dublin. She lives in Dublin with her family.
This is a tour de force of suspense and storytelling. Comes closer to perfection than anything I've read in the last decade -- SARAH HILARY French offers a masterclass in unreliability * SUNDAY TIMES * This is completely, indescribably magnificent. Tana French is a pure genius -- MARIAN KEYES A story of redemption and friendship, love and betrayal, it is a work of great strength and beauty * DAILY MAIL * To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: a truly great writer -- GILLIAN FLYNN I'm a big fan of Tana French -- IAN RANKIN The Wych Elm should cement French's place in the first rank of great literary novelists * OBSERVER * This book confirms Tana French as [crime fiction's] biggest contemporary star * GUARDIAN * Terrific - terrifying, amazing, and the prose is incandescent -- STEPHEN KING This mystery about family, memory and the cracks in both will haunt you for a long, long time -- ERIN KELLY A tale of flawed characters, complex relationships and elusive loyalties. Subtle and powerful -- CHRIS HAMMER This is a tour de force of suspense and storytelling. Comes closer to perfection than anything I've read in the last decade -- SARAH HILARY This is a tour de force of suspense and storytelling. Comes closer to perfection than anything I've read in the last decade -- SARAH HILARY French offers a masterclass in unreliability * SUNDAY TIMES * This is completely, indescribably magnificent. Tana French is a pure genius -- MARIAN KEYES A story of redemption and friendship, love and betrayal, it is a work of great strength and beauty * DAILY MAIL *