{"id":23723,"date":"2026-01-28T10:28:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23723"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:02:44","slug":"book-5-of-52-in-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/book-5-of-52-in-the-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 5 (of 52) &#8211; In The Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23724\" style=\"width: 336px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/inthewoods.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23724\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23724\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/inthewoods.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/inthewoods.jpg 326w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/inthewoods-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tana French &#8211; In The Woods<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When a young girl is found murdered in the woods outside of Dublin, a police detective with ties to those woods is assigned to investigate.\u00a0 The deeper the investigation goes, the more his past comes back to haunt him, helping him to catch the killer but costing him his partner, his best friend, his job, and any chance at answering the questions of what happened to him in those woods years earlier.<\/p>\n<p><em>In the Woods<\/em> is the first entry in the Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French.\u00a0 Originally released in 2007, it somehow came across my path late last year.\u00a0 The beginning of the book was excellent, setting the scene for an exciting thriller where the current mystery would help solve the old one.\u00a0 However, the ending fell a bit flat for me, as the old mystery didn&#8217;t even come close to a resolution and the main character turned into a bit of a dick.\u00a0 The next entry seems to revolve around some of the other characters from this one, minus said dick, so I may give that a shot at some point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a young girl is found murdered in the woods outside of Dublin, a police detective with ties to those woods is assigned to investigate.\u00a0 The deeper the investigation goes, the more his past comes back to haunt him, helping him to catch the killer but costing him his partner, his best friend, his job, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[12329,12330],"class_list":["post-23723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-in-the-woods","tag-tana-french"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23725,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23723\/revisions\/23725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}