Irish novelist and actress Tana French won the 2007 Edgar Award for her New York Times bestselling debut novel In the Woods. "Drawn by the grim nature of her plot and the lyrical ferocity of her writing, even smart people who should know better will be able to lose themselves in these dark woods," praised the New York Times Book Review. She followed In the Woods with The Likeness and Faithful Place, both bestselling installments in French's psychological crime series about the Dublin Murder Squad. Her suspenseful novels feature complex characters living in layered worlds of memory, identity, and loss. In Broken Harbor, the much-anticipated fourth book in the series, star detective Scorcher Kennedy investigates the deaths of two children and their father in a half-built estate outside Dublin.