Tana French

Adam and his friends, Peter and Jamie, always played in the woods near their home in Ireland. One day when they were twelve years old Peter and Jamie disappeared, and Adam's parents took him to England and changed his name. Twenty years later Detective Rob Ryan investigates the murder of a young girl near the same woods. X rated, explicit sexual content.

Cassie Maddox has left the Murder Squad and started a relationship with fellow detective Sam O’Neill. When Sam becomes involved in the case of a young woman stabbed to death just outside Dublin he finds the victim bears an uncanny resemblance to Cassie and involves her in the hunt for the killer. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force, and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But then a local kid comes looking for his help. His brother has gone missing, and no one, least of all the police, seems to care. Cal wants nothing to do with any kind of investigation, but somehow he can't make himself walk away. Soon Cal will discover that even in the most idyllic small town, secrets lie hidden, people aren't always what they seem, and trouble can come calling at his door.

Being on the Dublin Murder squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed. Her working life is a stream of thankless cases and harassment. Her new case looks like a regular lovers' quarrel gone bad. Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty and lying dead. Other detectives want her to arrest Aislinn's boyfriend, but everything she finds out about Aislinn takes her further from the simple woman she seemed to be. Antoinette soon discovers this is the case that will make her career - or break it...

For me it all goes back to that night, the dark corroded hinge between before and after, the slipped-in sheet of trick glass that tints everything on one side in its own murky colours and leaves everything on the other luminous and untouchable. 

One night changes everything for Toby. A brutal attack leaves him traumatised, unsure even of the person he used to be. He seeks refuge at his uncle's rambling home, the Ivy House, filled with cherished memories of wild-strawberry summers and teenage parties with his cousins.

But not long after Toby's arrival, a discovery is made. A skull, tucked neatly inside the old wych elm in the garden.

As detectives begin to close in, Toby is forced to examine everything he thought he knew about his family, his past, and himself.

A spellbinding standalone from a literary writer who turns the crime genre inside out, The Wych Elm asks what we become, and what we're capable of, if we no longer know who we are.