In the Woods
- Published
- 17 May 2007
- Pages
- 578
- ISBN-13
- 9781444758344
- Type
- novel
About this book
In the Woods is the first novel in Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series, a mystery title, published in 2007 at 578 pages. It opens the series that ran from 2007 to 2016, and is followed by The Likeness.
Key facts about In the Woods
In the Woods is a novel by Tana French. Readers have had it since 17 May 2007. It runs to 578 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of In the Woods. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781444758344 to find the main one.
In the Woods is book 1 of 6 in the Dublin Murder Squad series. The series has 6 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. The Trespasser is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 4 October 2016.
Additionally, Tana French writes Cal Hooper as a separate series. Those series sit on our mystery shelf. Meanwhile, The Keeper is the latest published Tana French book on file, from 31 March 2026.
About Tana French
Tana French is an Irish-American novelist widely regarded as one of literary crime fiction's finest stylists, best known for the Dublin Murder Squad series. See every Tana French book in order.
Its place in Dublin Murder Squad
In the Woods is book 1 in the Dublin Murder Squad series. It is followed by The Likeness. See the full Dublin Murder Squad reading order.
Tana French reinvented the police-procedural series with a simple, radical structure: the Dublin Murder Squad books share a world but not a hero. Each novel is narrated by a different detective — usually someone glimpsed at the edge of the previous book — and each narrator gets one case that cracks their life open. In In the Woods (2007, winner of the Edgar for best first novel), Rob Ryan investigates a child's murder in the same wood where his own childhood friends vanished. His partner Cassie Maddox takes over…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780340937969
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781444744217
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781444758344