In the Woods by Tana French

In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad #1) by Tana French, 429 p.

"As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children. He is gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours.

Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. 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. 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."--Goodreads blurb 

My first book by French, I was impressed with her immersive writing style. While this book is pretty long, I never felt like is slowed and each character had their faults, not the least of which was Rob, whom I came to have a love-hate relationship with (as did Cassie). I like how the book didn't come to an end when the murderer was found, but you followed the aftermath of the case and all that it wrought on these people's lives. I will be continuing on with the series.