BOOK OF THE MONTH FROM THE CAMPUS STORE
November selection: In the Woods, by Tana French
Campus Store price is 30 percent off: $9.80 (Regular price: $14)
Lately, some of the best mystery books have been coming from European authors who have a knack of writing high quality, literary mysteries with twists, turns, and surprises in the plot that will keep the most avid mystery reader engaged. In the Woods by Tana French is one of the best of these new European mysteries.
In 1984, three children of a Dublin, Ireland suburb go into the woods near their homes to play. When, in the evening, they haven’t come home for dinner, the town begins a search and finds only one of the three children, a young boy, clinging with a death grip to a tree, his shoes filled with blood. The other two children are never found and the boy has no memory of what happened that day.
Twenty years later, Rob Ryan, the lone survivor of that day in the woods, is now a homicide detective on the Dublin Murder Squad. He and his partner, Cassie Maddox, are called to investigate the death of a 12-year-old girl who was murdered in the same woods where Ryan’s friends went missing and he was left the sole survivor. Finding eerie similarities between this new crime and the one from his past, Ryan must solve not only the murder of the 12-year-old girl, but using snippets of his own memory, the disappearance of his two friends.
Well written and progressively creepy, this first novel from Tana French is a must-read for mystery lovers and highly recommended for those who love an amazingly told tale.
—Drew Goodman, Campus Store
