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It’s 1984 in an unassuming suburb of Dublin, and the warm summer sun is beginning to set.

To get the most out of the series, it’s best to read these books in the order they were published, listed below. There are six books in the series in total, two of which inspired the award-winning BBC crime drama series, ‘Dublin Murders.’Įach novel centers around a different detective from an elite team of Irish agents known as the Dublin Murder Squad. Tana French’s breakout novel, ‘In the Woods,’ also marked the start of her hugely popular psychological crime and mystery series, ‘The Dublin Murder Squad. In this post, I’ll give you a full list of every title by the author in the order they were published, from her smash hit debut more than fifteen years ago to her latest release.

Every Book by Tana French in Reading OrderĮvery Book by Tana French in Reading Orderįrench first made a name for herself with her Dublin Murder Squad series, but over the past few years, she’s also published two hugely successful standalone novels.

Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past. But when a 12-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox (his partner and closest friend) find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. He is gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. And every trail leads inexorably back…into the woodsĪs dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home.

Rob’s own private enquiries are taking a toll on his mind. The victim’s apparently normal family is hiding layers of secrets. For him and his DI partner, Cassie, every lead comes with its own sinister undercurrents. Then, a little girl’s body is found at the site of the old tragedy and Rob is drawn back into the mystery. Even he has no memory of what happened that day. Twenty years on, Rob Ryan – the child who came back – is a detective in the Dublin police force. A gorgeously written novel that marks the debut of an astonishing new voice in psychological suspense.