The Secret Place

“An absolutely mesmerizing read. . . . Tana French is simply this: a truly great writer.” —Gillian Flynn Read the New York Times bestseller by Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher and “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” (The Washington Post). A year ago a boy was found murdered at a girlsʼ boarding school, and the case was never solved. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to join Dublin’s Murder Squad when sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey arrives in his office with a photo of the boy with the caption: “I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM.” Stephen joins with Detective Antoinette Conway to reopen the case—beneath the watchful eye of Holly’s father, fellow detective Frank Mackey. With the clues leading back to Holly’s close-knit group of friends, to their rival clique, and to the tangle of relationships that bound them all to the murdered boy, the private underworld of teenage girls turns out to be more mysterious and more dangerous than the detectives imagined.

You hunger to live in the presence of God, and you yearn to know the Father’s heart in an intimate way. You desire revelation and passionate encounters with the Almighty, and you long to spend time in The Secret Place, getting to know the Father in a deeper way. This book will lead you into that place of revelation, the place that will satisfy your hunger for more of God. If you long to experience a greater intimacy with the Father, The Secret Place will draw you in and change your life!

Companion Study Guide Legacy Edition: Use this Companion Study Guide for both personal and group study. Group study will be more effective if each person gets their own copy of both Secrets and the Companion Study Guide. This Study Guide will help you go deeper with the Lord, and will help you glean the things the Lord is speaking to you personally. It also provides clear guidelines for leading small groups in a study of Secrets. Used together, these two books comprise an unparalleled equipping tool for moving believers into the incredible joys of pursuing an intimate relationship with Christ. Go after Jesus together with your friends!

Peter Van Woerden, Corrie Ten Boom’s nephew, began his career in the Dutch underground in 1942. He was the organist of the Reformed Church in Velsen and was at his regular post on the bench one Lord’s Day morning as he recounts: “On this particular Sunday, as I sat and mused, I suddenly realized that exactly two years before, on the 10th of May, the Nazi invasion of Holland had begun. As I looked over the congregation I decided that something should be done, something on this Sunday morning to demonstrate that we still were real Dutchmen at heart, something to express our faith and hope in a day of victory when we would again be a free people. The sermon over, I pulled extra stops out on the organ, then firmly and distinctly played the first chords of the Wilhelmus, the national anthem of the Netherlands. There was a rustling downstairs. People stood to their feet. One voice began to sing, then another, and others; and soon, like a mighty sea, the glorious old hymn rolled forth from the overflowing hearts of hundreds of Hollanders as tears streamed down their faces. For that one moment we were a free people in the midst of a dark world full of oppression and persecution.” That gesture landed Peter in prison where, in turn, he experienced, for the first time in his life, a deep hunger for God. After years in the church he met Christ and was truly converted. And thus an adventure in which Peter evaded the Nazis many months until the night he went to grandfather and Aunt Corrie.

This Companion Study Guide directs you how to go deeper in the principles of the book, Secrets Of The Secret Place, and also provides clear guidelines for leading small groups in a study through the book. Used together, these two books comprise an unparalleled equipping tool for moving believers into the incredible joys of pursuing an intimate relationship with Christ. You've got to take this one to your small group Bible study!

Young readers will fall in love all over again with Dennis Lee’s light-hearted verse, which embraces universal childhood experiences of every flavour, from digging holes to foreign lands to searching for the perfect pet. David McPhail’s gorgeous watercolour paintings capture Lee’s subtle celebration of multiculturalism and offer a colourful feast for the eye. Oh, the kids around the block are like an Ice cream store, ’Cause there’s chocolate and vanilla, And there’s maple and there’s more...

It was as though I had been raised in a family of royalty. I thought horror stories were only written in books, they were not about real people. My world was a wonderful, happly place. After being raised in a small river town, it sounded exciting to take a congregation in a big city! After all, this was what we were supposed to do. Little did I realize the calamity that was ahead. Then once I was in the fog of heartbreak, it was like being in a burning house with no way of escape. But God had a plan. Quoting from the Holy Bible, "Out of the bitter came forth sweet." My survival was by staying hid "In the Secret Place."

The Secret Place is one of the most sought-after books. It is written to bring transformation into your life. If you lay hold of the revelations in this book by faith, your life won’t be the same. This book contains sound biblical teachings that will ignite a thirst for God’s presence and power in your life. Not only that, it will also rekindle your faith and hunger for supernatural acts of God. This book is written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit after the hand of God delivered Pastor Mfula from a fatal accident. We believe God sent His angels to rescue him. He has also discovered that many people have been in the secret place, but very few dwell there to have encounters with God. Get this book! You will learn how to make the secret place your dwelling place in Christ Jesus. I believe God is calling you to supernatural encounters with His presence. Remember! The secret place is not a natural location, but a spiritual location in God’s presence. God bless you!!

'A gripping read for those still pining for GONE GIRL' Elle's top five beach reads The photo shows a boy who was murdered a year ago. The caption says, 'I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM'. Detective Stephen Moran hasn't seen Holly Mackey since she was a nine-year-old witness to the events of Faithful Place. Now she's sixteen and she's shown up outside his squad room, with a photograph and a story. Even in her exclusive boarding school, in the graceful golden world that Stephen has always longed for, bad things happen and people have secrets. The previous year, Christopher Harper, from the neighbouring boys' school, was found murdered on the grounds. And today, in the Secret Place - the school noticeboard where girls can pin up their secrets anonymously - Holly found the card. Solving this case could take Stephen onto the Murder squad. But to get it solved, he will have to work with Detective Antoinette Conway - tough, prickly, an outsider, everything Stephen doesn't want in a partner. And he will have to find a way into the strange, charged, mysterious world that Holly and her three closest friends inhabit and disentangle the truth from their knot of secrets, even as he starts to suspect that the truth might be something he doesn't want to hear. From the multi-award-winning author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller In the Woods, The Secret Place is a searing novel of psychological suspense.