The Secret Place
- Published
- 2 September 2014
- Pages
- 518
- ISBN-13
- 9781444755572
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Secret Place is the 5th novel in Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series, published in 2014 at 518 pages. It follows Broken Harbour and precedes The Trespasser in the reading order.
Key facts about The Secret Place
The Secret Place is a novel by Tana French. Readers have had it since 2 September 2014. It runs to 518 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of The Secret Place. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781444755572 to find the main one.
The Secret Place is book 5 of 6 in the Dublin Murder Squad series. The series has 6 published books. However, the series starts with In the Woods (2007). 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
The Secret Place is book 5 in the Dublin Murder Squad series. It follows Broken Harbour. It is followed by The Trespasser. 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 9780143127512
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781467686518
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780670026326