question: Which Irish novelist and theatrical actress wrote the 2007 mystery novel In the Woods?
answer: Tana French
context: Title: Janice MacDonald
  Passage: Janice Elva MacDonald (born 1959 in Banff, Alberta) is a Canadian writer of literary and mystery novels, textbooks, non-fiction, and stories for both adults and children.  She is best known as the creator of a series of comic academic mystery novels featuring reluctant amateur sleuth Miranda "Randy" Craig, all of which are set in Edmonton, Alberta.  The latest of these, "Another Margaret: A Randy Craig Mystery", released in September 2015, takes Miranda to a reunion of her fellow graduate school students and resurrects a mystery involving a Canadian literary figure who has been long-believed dead.  "The Roar of the Crowd: A Randy Craig Mystery" was released on July 10, 2014, with a plot involving the Edmonton theatre scene, including the Freewill Shakespeare Festival and the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, and it went on to be nominated for the David Award for Best Mystery Novel at the 2015 Deadly Ink Conference and featured as a recommended read in both the "2015 Edmonton Travel Guide" and the 2015 "Avenue Magazine" Summer Reading Guide.  "Condemned to Repeat: A Randy Craig Mystery," was published on June 15, 2013, and involves a series of deadly events connected to Alberta historic sites, including Rutherford House, Fort Edmonton Park, and the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village; it debuted in the top spot on the Edmonton Journal's bestseller list on June 21, 2013 and went on to be shortlisted for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher at the 2013 Manitoba Book Awards as well as the David Award for Best Mystery Novel at the 2014 Deadly Ink Conference.  "Hang Down Your Head: A Randy Craig Mystery," was published in November 2011 and features "cameo" appearances by several real-life folk musicians, as well as a corpse discovered at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival.  The book was a hit in MacDonald's home city and spent more than six months on the Edmonton Journal's Top 10 list.  The book and its author were profiled on CBC Radio, CityTV's Breakfast Television show, in the Edmonton Journal, and in the Edmonton Examiner.  A January 2012 cover story in "Edmonton Woman Magazine" and a half-hour interview on the CKUA Radio Network's ArtBeat program, looked more extensively at the entire mystery series.
  Title: Gypsy in Amber
  Passage: Gypsy in Amber is a 1971 mystery novel by American novelist Martin Cruz Smith as "Martin Smith".  It was first published on January 1, 1971 through Putnam and was Smith's second novel and first mystery novel.
  Title: Hannah Baker
  Passage: Hannah Baker is a fictional character created by American author Jay Asher.  She is the subject of his 2007 mystery novel "Thirteen Reasons Why", and Netflix's adaptation of the book, "13 Reasons Why".  Hannah is introduced as a sophomore at the fictional Liberty High School, characterized by her struggle adjusting to life in an unsympathetic school environment.  She is played by Katherine Langford on the television series.  Langford is signed on to appear in the show's second season, which is set to air in 2018.
  Title: Promise Not to Tell
  Passage: Promise Not to Tell is a 2007 mystery novel with supernatural elements written by Vermont author Jennifer McMahon.  The book was released in April 2007 in the US by Harper Paperbacks (an imprint of HarperCollins).  It was released in Germany by Rowohlt Verlag, under the title "Das Madchen Im Wald" (The Girl in the Woods), in October 2007.  It was released in the United Kingdom by Orion Books in 2008.
  Title: William Godwin
  Passage: William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist.  He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and the first modern proponent of anarchism.  Godwin is most famous for two books that he published within the space of a year: "An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice", an attack on political institutions, and "Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams", which attacks aristocratic privilege, but also is the first mystery novel.  Based on the success of both, Godwin featured prominently in the radical circles of London in the 1790s.  In the ensuing conservative reaction to British radicalism, Godwin was attacked, in part because of his marriage to the pioneering feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797 and his candid biography of her after her death from childbirth.  His daughter, Mary Godwin (later Mary Shelley) would go on to write "Frankenstein" and marry the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.  Godwin wrote prolifically in the genres of novels, history and demography throughout his lifetime.  With his second wife, Mary Jane Clairmont, he wrote children's primers on Biblical and classical history, which he published along with such works as Charles and Mary Lamb's "Tales from Shakespeare".  Using the pseudonym "Edward Baldwin", he wrote a variety of books for children, including a version of Jack and the Beanstalk.  He also has had considerable influence on British literature and literary culture.
  Title: Tana French
  Passage: Tana French (born 1973) is an Irish novelist and theatrical actress born in Vermont.  Her debut novel "In the Woods" (2007), a psychological mystery, won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards for best first novel.  She lives in Dublin.  The British online newspaper, "The Independent", has referred to her as the First Lady of Irish Crime, "who very quietly has become a huge international name among crime fiction readers."
  Title: Rim of the Pit
  Passage: Rim of the Pit (1944) is a locked-room mystery novel written by Hake Talbot, a pen name of Henning Nelms.  Nelms, as Talbot, published one other mystery novel as well as two short stories.
  Title: In the Woods
  Passage: In the Woods is a 2007 mystery novel by Tana French about a pair of Irish detectives and their investigation of the murder of a twelve-year-old girl.  The novel won several awards such as the 2008 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author, the 2008 Barry Award for Best First Novel, the 2008 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel, and the 2008 Anthony Award for Best First Novel.
  Title: Casanegra (novel)
  Passage: Casanegra: A Tennyson Hardwick Story is a 2007 mystery novel by actor Blair Underwood and writers Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes.  The book was released on June 19, 2007 through Atria Books and is the first book in the "Tennyson Hardwick" series.  "Casanegra" follows the adventures of Tennyson Hardwick, an actor and former gigolo.  A sequel, "In the Night of the Heat", was released in 2009.
  Title: The Snow Empress
  Passage: The Snow Empress is a 2007 mystery novel written by Laura Joh Rowland, set in the Genroku (AD 1688–1704) of historical Japan It is the 12th book in the Sano Ichiro series.
citations: Tana French In the Woods