Oh sweet mother, did this book ever frustrate me. On one hand, the premise is interesting – a girl shows up murdered in a forest; the lead detective on the case was involved in the suspicious disappearance of two of his friends when he was a child – in the exact same forest. Dun dun duuuunnnnn…. Who killed this girl? What happened to his friends all those years ago? Are the two cases related? 608 PAGES LATER AND ONLY ONE OF THOSE QUESTIONS WAS ANSWERED. […]
Into the woods, it’s time to go, I hate to leave, I have to though. Into the woods, it’s time, and so I must begin my journey
I’ve been meaning to read this for a long time (it’s been on my shelves for years) and I’m so glad I finally picked it up. I was in the perfect mood for a dark, twisty mystery. And this is exactly the kind of mystery I tend to go for: detailed, melancholy, with complex characters. In The Woods centers on Rob Ryan, detective in the Dublin Murder Squad. When he was twelve years old, his best friends went missing in the woods behind their neighborhood […]
Two mysteries for the price of one
This book, which is quite long (longest audio book I’ve listened to to date) gives the readers two mysteries for the price of one. Back in 1984, three 12-year-olds went missing in the wood of a Dublin suburb. Search parties eventually found one of them, Adam Ryan, clutching a tree trunk in catatonic terror, several rips at the back of his t-shirt and his shoes filled with blood. His two friends, however, were gone without a trace. Adam didn’t remember anything since entering the wood […]
Book Exchange Book 2 – Delicious Mystery
This was my second book given to me this year for the Pajiba Cannonball Read Book Exchange. My benefactor picked two in my “to read” list off of Goodreads, and gave this one a glowing recommendation, and they were not wrong!! This was a real page turner, I was obsessed with seeing how it all played out! Missing children, murder, detective partners with secret histories, the wood with its own secrets of present and past. At its roots the story isn’t that complex, and […]