Reddit reviews In the Woods: A Novel

Gillian Flynn is one of my favorites, and I group her with Denise Mina, Tana French, Sara Gran, and Elizabeth Hand. These are the books that I recommend to start each writer:

• Elizabeth Hand - Generation Loss
  
• Denise Mina - Garnethill
  
• Tana French - In the Woods
  
• Sara Gran - Dope or Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
  
  I HIGHLY recommend all of these -- they're all biting and well written and thrilling in different ways.

I love Tana French! She writes a good, complex mystery that really sucks you in. She started with In the Woods. This is also the start of her Dublin Murder Squad books - all of them great.

Gillian Flynn, who wrote Gone Girl, also has another book out - Dark Places.

Also some of my favorites are Nicholas Evans (Horse Whisperer, among others). I've read most of Jodi Picoult's books (Leaving Time is pretty recent, and one of my favorites).

I find many of my books by keying in favorites on Amazon, and seeing what other people also buy. If you are a Prime member, you also get 2 free advanced books every month, and with a Kindle, you have the lending library as well. My Kindle library is out of control - I've been using Kindle Unlimited to keep that more manageable & it's easy for me.

The Hunger Games / Divergent / Ender's Game / Maze Runner series are great also, are fun reads, and give you a bit more time with the characters as part of a series.

In the Woods by Tana French maybe? The main character, Rob, becomes a homicide detective as an adult after having two of his friends murdered when they were kids (he was with them but lived and has no memory of the events). There is something with a shovel later on. It doesn't exactly fit, but it was a pretty popular book a few years back and I thought it was worth a try.

One of the biggest reasons I loved the Millennium trilogy was Larsson's use of Sweden itself as a character. Everything from the weather to Scandinavian minimalism helped make the story so much more real.

Following those, I ended up reading and loving Tana French's trilogy. The stories follow three Irish police officers (though the stories are more loosely connected than Millennium) and her use of Ireland itself is absolutely brilliant. Give the first one In the Woods a shot and see what you think.

Edit: My mistake. It looks like a fourth book was just published in July.

My first thought was this but the cover isn't similar. I'll keep thinking on it.

Tana French is excellent.

I would fully recommend any of her Dublin Murder Squad series. My personal favourites are In The Woods and Broken Harbour.