The Wych Elm
By Tana French

From the writer whose novels inspired the BBC'sand Dublin Murdersand TV series...'One of the most compulsive psychological mysteries since Donna Tartt'sand The Secret History'and THE TIMES'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully written mystery'and SOPHIE HANNAH'Dark and twisty'and SUNDAY TIMES'Mesmerising'and GILLIAN FLYNN'I'm a big fan of Tana French'and IAN RANKIN________________________________________WHAT DO WE HIDE INSIDE OURSELVES?One night changes everything for Toby. He's always led a charmed life - until a brutal attack leaves him damaged and traumatised, unsure even of the person he used to be. He seeks refuge at his family's ancestral home, the Ivy House, filled with memories of wild-strawberry summers and teenage parties with his cousins.But not long after Toby's arrival, a discovery is made: a skull, tucked neatly inside the old wych elm in the garden.As detectives begin to close in, Toby is forced to examine everything he thought he knew about his family, his past, and himself.A spellbinding book from a novelist who takes crime writing and turns it inside out,and The Wych Elmand asks what we become, and what we're capable of, if we no longer know who we are.________________________________________'This book confirms Tana French as [crime fiction's] biggest contemporary star'and Guardian'Lyrical, suspenseful, unpredictable'and Harlan Coben'French offers a masterclass in unreliability'and Sunday Times'Terrific - terrifying, amazing, and the prose is incandescent'and Stephen King'Another one of her rich psychological thrillers that will work its way under your skin'and Lucy Mangan,and Stylist'To sayand Tana Frenchand is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: a truly great writer'and Gillian Flynn'This mystery about family, memory and the cracks in both will haunt you for a long, long time'and Erin Kelly'The Wych Elmand should cement French's place in the first rank of great literary novelists 'Observer