You can beat one killer. Beating your own squad is a whole other thing. This is the case that will make Detective Antoinette Conway's murder squad career. Or break it. A searing novel of psychological suspense from the multi-award-winning author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller In the Woods.

The case that will make Detective Antoinette Conway's murder squad career. Or break it.

'Its single voice is brilliantly sustained' Sunday Times

There's the murder squad you set your sights on at the beginning: the one where you're playing knife-edge mind-games with psychopathic geniuses. And there's the one you actually work on. The night shifts. The vicious pranks that go too far. Sifting the dregs for the case that might just be special.

'A series from this side of the Atlantic [to] rival the best of the Americans' Sunday Express

Tonight's case isn't it. Uniforms call it in as a slam-dunk domestic.
Except when Conway takes a good look at the victim's face, she realises she's seen her somewhere before. And she knows there's a different answer. And it takes her breath away.

'A beautifully wrought murder mystery' Mail on Sunday

This is the case she imagined. Precision-cut and savage, lithe and momentous.

French's gripping sixth novel checks every box from prose to plotting to suspense to characterisation. I'm working my way through the Dublin Murder Squad series and they're stellar.