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Holly Mackey visits detective Stephen Moran with a card she found on her schools bulletin board, the secret place, claiming that the author of the card knows who killed Chris Harper last year. This lead to Moran getting his shot at a murder investigation with detective Antionette Conway. The books alternates chapters between Moran's murder investigation and the lives of Holly and her three friends in boarding school over the last year. I like the alternating chapter structures and the fact that
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This is Tana French's 5th book and I am amazed that most of the reviewers on Goodreads have read all 5 and spend some time comparing them. I of course will do that too - In the Woods and Faithful place being my favorites (5 stars), The Likeness 4 stars and these last 2 Broken Harbour and Secret Place only 3. But interesting that she keeps her readers. She has a very unique style, blending the murder mystery with lots of background and complicated interactions between all the characters. Her book
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I love Tana French. I've devoured every one of her novels and could not wait for #5 to come out. I quite literally counted the days until The Secret Place was available for purchase. I did the "whispersync" thing and alternated between reading on my kindle and listening via the audible app. So, I read and listened to The Secret Place and I have to say that I was not as completely impressed with it as I have been with her past novels. I think my main disappointment was French's attempt at alterna
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This was not as good as her previous ones. Way too much teenage angst. I liked the format in which French picked one of her major characters from In the Woods and focused on a different character in subsequent books. This did not appear to be the case in this offering. Still she really does have a way with words and her presentation is spot on.
While I enjoyed this book, it was not as good as others in the series.
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