Toby lays low after a brutal attack, finding solace in the good memories brought on by a changed scene to his uncle's rambling home. These efforts at recovery are thrown off course when he finds a skull in the garden, and as the detectives subsequently close in. Comparable to the best work of Donna Tartt and Kate Atkinson Tana French is the award-winning, Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling author of In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbour, The Secret Place and The Trespasser. She has won many awards for her fiction, including the Edgar, Anthony, Barry, Macavity and IVCA Clarion awards, the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Best Crime Fiction. She grew up in Ireland, Italy, the US and Malawi, and trained as an actress at Trinity College Dublin before becoming a writer. She lives in Dublin with her family.