Her death might be related to her father's protests against the new motorway meant to go straight through the dig site, or one of the students on the dig might have attacked her. Katy's murder takes the pair along many lines of investigation. There are many rumours that they are romantically involved, though both of them scoff at the idea, despite the fact that they live almost like a married couple, spending a lot of time at Cassie's cooking dinner for one another, drinking wine, and having Rob crash on Cassie's couch across the room. Cassie is one of the few people who knows the truth about Rob's past. The body is found in the same woods where Rob's friends disappeared, at an archaeological dig site and the coincidence is enough to make Rob nervous, though he insists to his partner that he is fine.Д¬assie and Rob have been partners for a few years and get along famously, teasing one another and completing one another's thoughts. The plot of the novel circles around the murder of a twelve-year-old girl, Katy Devlin, whose case Rob and his partner Cassie Maddox are assigned to investigate. Now using his middle name, Rob, he is a detective with the Murder Squad.

He is unable to say what happened to them. The GardaГ find Adam shivering, clawing the bark of a nearby tree, with blood in his shoes and slash marks on his back. Twenty-two years prior to the novel's events, twelve year-old Adam and his two best friends failed to come home after playing in the familiar woods bordering their Irish housing estate.

Humanized night in the woods characters