Date Read: June 12
Author: Tana French
Genre: Mystery
Rating: 5/5
The Secret Place takes place in a private Catholic girls’ school where Frank Mackey’s daughter, Holly, is a student. When she shows up with a clue to a murder that happened the year before, it kicks off a full day in which the mystery is explored. Unlike previous French novels, the entire investigation fits into a single day in which there are too many turns to count.
When you stop being a kid, you lose your once chance at that too-tender-to-touch gold, that breathtaken everything and forever. Once you start growing up and getting sense, the outside world turns real, and your own private world is never everything again.
– The Secret Place
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