The Secret Place
- 560
- Pages
- about 10 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 1 week on the list, peaked at #5
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Our view
Tana French’s “The Secret Place” sets a twisty murder inquiry in an Irish boarding school and lets its two detectives spar their way through it. Some readers rank the investigation among the more interesting in the “Dublin Murder Squad” books and value what it says about girlhood. Others find it too long and wish it had been edited harder. Some came to it without the earlier novels and were glad they did.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
The Secret Place is a 2014 novel by Tana French set in Ireland. The Washington Post named the book one of the five best thrillers of 2014. Amazon.com named it one of the best books of 2014 in the mystery, thriller and suspense category.
Reading order · Dublin Murder Squad
Full order & progress →- In the WoodsStart here
7.47.4 / 10 - The Likeness
7.97.9 / 10 - Faithful Place
7.87.8 / 10 - Broken Harbour
–Not ranked yet - The Secret PlaceThis book
7.67.6 / 10 - The TrespasserThe Trespasser–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.6 across 135 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 48% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.9 | 7 | 5% |
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 128 | 95% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Secret Place?
It has 560 pages — longer than 92% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
If you liked this
The same shelf — Crime & mystery — and a score of 7.6, the closest to this book.
