***NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***

**WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR THE BEST FIRST NOVEL 2008**

Tana French grew up in Ireland, Italy, the US and Malawi, and has lived in Dublin since 1990. She trained as an actress at Trinity College Dublin. She has worked in theatre, film and voiceover and is a member of PurpleHeart Theatre Company.

In The Woods is a haunting psychological crime thriller that starts with the discovery of a little girl's body on an archealogical site just outside Dublin.

Investigating the crime is detective duo Rob Ryan and Cassie Maddox. What Rob hides from his colleagues is that the murder brings back memories of a traumatic event in his own past, and the investigation becomes inextricably entangled with that long-ago event.