Exciting thriller - but Rob Ryan is really a man?

"In the Woods" is a cleverly constructed and extremely exciting thriller - the corpse of a girl is found in the middle of an archaeological site in the suburbs of Dublin. In the same forest disappeared 20 years ago, two children, and a third child survived traumatized and without memories. It is this third child, Rob Ryan, is now assigned to this case in the homicide of Dublin. Together with his colleague Cassie Maddox, he works his way through a thicket of suspects and suspicions and tried at the same time find out if the murder of today had something to do with the disappearance of his friends from back then ...

Tana French has undoubtedly talent, build the story exciting, without losing depth. You make your first-person narrator Rob Ryan skillfully through all the reefs and cliffs determining maneuver. The figure of the narrator awakened for me credible to life; his trauma, his memory gaps - that's what I believed everything. I did me, however, in parts very difficult to believe that Rob is a man. His odd years of relationship with Cassie made me a lot more to Busenfreundinnen think instead of a male-female friendship. But when (spoiler!) The two finally have sex, that has not affected me like a man. Whether something has verhoben the author with her male narrator?

Since I was not convinced by Rob Ryan's gender identity, despite all the tension in the novel only 4 stars.