I have read I think all Tana French’s books but this is the best. I find her prose style can get a bit Jamesian and convoluted but not in this case.
The book has a really clear linear narrative, about an American policeman who retires to a cottage in rural Ireland and gets caught up accidentally in a small town missing person mystery.
Some parallels with the author here, who I think is an American now living in Dublin. The rural Ireland and pub scenes in the village, are brilliantly done.
He doesn’t arrest or kill anybody, but resolves the unknowns for his ‘client’, a young school child whose brother has disappeared.
Brilliant, far better than any of her other - much lauded - books.
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