
It’s a hot August day in Knocknaree a small town in Dublin Ireland. Three twelve year old kids Adam, Jamie and Peter run into the woods around 3:00pm near their homes to play. Peter promises his mother he would be home at 6:30 for tea. Hours pass and none of the children come home. The police arrive and the search of the woods begin and find only one child in the woods his shoes are soaked in blood, his shirt is ripped and he has no memory of what happened to him and his friends. After several attempts to question him the police get nowhere he cannot remember a single thing.
20 years later detective Rob Ryan is working a murder case of a twelve year old girl in that same small town in those same woods. No one but his partner Cassie knows he’s the boy who came out of those woods alone all those years ago. After what happened to him he left Knocknaree and his name behind to start a new life. Going back to those woods will not be easy for Rob he never imagined going back. Thinking he can just keep who he really is a secret Rob continues with the investigation until he finds evidence that the case he is working on now may be linked to the case from when he was a child. If who he really was got out he would be taken off the case because of emotional involvement and possibly lose his career for not mentioning it from the get go. Faced with a decision Rob decides to keep on with the investigation but will his past catch up with him?
Book written by Tana French