Faithful Place: Dublin Murder Squad: 3

Tana French grew up in Ireland, Italy, the United States and Malawi. She trained as an actor at Trinity College Dublin and has worked mainly in theatre. Her first novel, In the Woods, won the Edgar, Anthony, Barry and Macavity awards for Best First Novel and the Clarion Award for Best Fiction and was a Sunday Times bestseller. In the Woods and her second novel, The Likeness, were both New York Times bestsellers. Tana French lives in Dublin with her husband and daughter.