murder is everywhere, even in dublin…that’s why there’s a dublin assassination squad!
what is the dublin assassination squad series about?
american writer tana french is the first lady of irish crime, it’s weird when you say it like that, but the author of the dublin murder squad actually lives in dublin.
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And so she writes about the police detectives on the murder squad in Dublin, Ireland. each book has a different main character, but with the exception of the first, the main character had been introduced as a supporting character in a previous novel.
dublin assassination squad books in order:
You can read them in order of publication, but it is not an obligation. it is sometimes recommended to read “in the woods” and “the likeness” later in the series. reading them together is better, but the first is the most divisive book in the series. therefore, you can pass them to go to “faithful place” or “broken port”. your choice!
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- in the woods: In a small suburb of Dublin in the summer of 1984, three children do not return from the dark and silent forest. when the police arrive, they find only one of the children clinging to a terrified tree trunk, wearing bloody slippers and unable to remember a single detail from the previous hours. Twenty years later, the boy found, Rob Ryan, is a detective with the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery.
- the resemblance – Six months have passed and Cassie Maddox has been transferred from the Dublin Murder Squad. But an urgent phone call summons Cassie to the grisly crime scene. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and is wearing an ID that identifies her as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie she once used as an undercover cop. Suddenly, Cassie must find out not only who killed this girl, but more importantly, who is this girl?
- True Place – way back in 1985, Frank Mackey was nineteen – an older boy with dreams of escaping his family’s cramped flat in a faithful place and running away to London with his girl, Rosie Daly. but the night they were supposed to leave, rosie didn’t show up. Frank assumed that she had left him. he never came home again. rosy neither. Then, twenty-two years later, Rosie’s suitcase turns up behind a fireplace in an abandoned house at The True Place, and Frank, now a detective in the Dublin Undercover Squad, is going home whether he likes it or not.
- broken port – mick “scorcher” kennedy follows the rules and plays hard. That’s why he’s the best detective in the Dublin Murder Squad, and that’s why he puts the biggest case of the year in his hands. In one of the half-abandoned “luxury” developments that litter Ireland, Patrick Spain and his two young children have been murdered. his wife, jenny, is in intensive care. at first scorcher thinks it will be an easy fix, but there are too many little things that can’t be explained. And this neighborhood, once called Broken Harbor, holds memories for Scorcher and his troubled sister Dina: childhood memories that Scorcher thought he had tightly under control.
- The Secret Place – Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to join the Dublin murder squad when sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey arrives at his office with a photo of a popular boy whose body was found at a girls’ boarding school a year earlier. the photo had been posted on the secret place, the school’s anonymous gossip board and caption says i know who killed him. Stephen teams up with Detective Antoinette Conway to reopen the case.
- The Outsider: Detective Antoinette Conway teams up with Steve to solve the murder of Aislinn Murray. There’s nothing unusual about it, except other detectives are trying to pressure Antoinette and Steve to arrest Aislinn’s boyfriend, fast. There is a shadowy figure at the end of Antoinette’s path. aislinn’s friend is implying that she knew aislinn was in danger. And everything they discover about Aislinn drives her further from the passive, brilliant doll she once seemed to be.
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