Mystery Book Discussion Group

The Mystery Book Discussion Group will meet at the Middlebury Public Library on Thursday, September 5th at 6:00 pm to discuss In the Woods by Tana French. Books are available at the library. Please call the library at 203-758-2634 or e-mail Joan Arnold at jarnold729729@gmail.com for more information. All are welcome!


Book Description:


In The Woods has won several
awards for being a best first novel. The plot of the story circles
around the murder of a twelve year old girl, Katy Devlin, whose case Rob
and his partner Cassie Maddox are assigned to investigate. Twenty years
prior to the novel’s events, twelve year old Adam and his two best
friends failed to come home after playing in the same woods. Adam is
found shivering, clawing the bark of a nearby tree, with blood on his
shoes and slash marks on his back. He is unable to tell them what
happened or where his friends are. They are never found and his amnesia
holds to the present day. He now goes by his middle name, Rob, to avoid
media attention and is a detective. The same detective is now
investigating this crime.


Katy’s murder takes the detectives along
many lines of investigation. Her death might be related to her father’s
protests against a new motorway meant to go straight through a dig
site, one of the students on the dig might have attacked her, or it
might be related to the fact that Katy might have been abused by her
father or someone else in the family.