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Tana French, The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad 5)

Das könnte der Band in der Serie sein, der mir, wenn nicht am besten gefiel so doch am nahesten ging, nicht nur wegen der so einfühlsam und faszinierend beschriebenen Vorgeschichte des Mordes auf dem Gelände einer Mädchenschule und dem Einblick in das besondere Beziehungsgeflecht in der Freundschaft von vier Teenagern, sondern auch das Verhältnis der beiden Ermittler, die sich im Laufe eines Tages zusammenfinden. Jetzt bin ich gespannt wie sich das neu gebildete Team im nächsten Band macht.
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You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran off the mercury, your heart galloped flat out and never needed to rest, everything was pitched on the edge of shattering glass. How wanting something was like dying of thirst. How your skin was too fine to keep out any of the million things flooding by; every colour boild bright enough to scald you, any second of any day could send you soaring or rip you to bloody shreds.
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Everyone's thought that: maybe even if, maybe we could still, maybe small bits of precious things can be salvaged. No one with cop-on thinks it after the first try. But her voice, quiet and sad, shimmering the air into those pearly colours: for a second I believed it, all over again.
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By the time I got away and found other girls, it was too late. When you stop being a kid, you lose your one chance at that too-tender-to-touch gold, that breathtaken everything and forever. Once you start growing up and getting sense, the outside world turns real, and your own private world is never everything again.
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(Tana French, The Secret Place, 2014)