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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. French’s emotionally searing third novel of the Dublin murder squad (after The Likeness) shows the Irish author getting better with each book. In 1985, 19-yearold Frank Mackey and his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, made secret plans to elope to England and start a new life together far away from their families, particularly the hard-drinking Mackeys. But when Rosie doesn’t meet Frank the night they’re meant to leave and he finds a note, Frank assumes she’s left him behind. For 22 years, Frank, who becomes an undercover cop, stays away from Faithful Place, his childhood Dublin neighborhood. When his younger sister, Jackie, calls to tell him that someone found Rosie’s suitcase hidden in an abandoned house, Frank reluctantly returns. Now everything he thought he knew is turned upside down: did Rosie really leave that night, or did someone stop her before she could? French, who briefly introduced Mackey in The Likeness, is adept at seamlessly blending suspenseful whodunit elements with Frank’s familial demons.
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From Bookmarks Magazine
As in her previous crime novels, French explores love, loss, and the powerful sway of memory in modern-day Dublin. Critics diverged, however, on aspects of Faithful Place. A few thought it French’s best to date, with its deft portrayal of sibling rivalry, class conflicts, memories of romance and violence, and, not least of all, her sharp portrait of the ”new Ireland.” Others, however, commented that Faithful Place was more a psychological and emotional thriller than a detective story. But all praised the novel’s deep characterizations and unpredictable twists and turns--and look forward to French’s next offering. After all, notes the New York Times Book Review, ”Tana French’s mysteries are like big old trees: the deeper their roots, the more luxurious the foliage they wave in your face.”

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. French’s emotionally searing third novel of the Dublin murder squad (after The Likeness) shows the Irish author getting better with each book. In 1985, 19-yearold Frank Mackey and his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, made secret plans to elope to England and start a new life together far away from their families, particularly the hard-drinking Mackeys. But when Rosie doesn’t meet Frank the night they’re meant to leave and he finds a note, Frank assumes she’s left him behind. For 22 years, Frank, who becomes an undercover cop, stays away from Faithful Place, his childhood Dublin neighborhood. When his younger sister, Jackie, calls to tell him that someone found Rosie’s suitcase hidden in an abandoned house, Frank reluctantly returns. Now everything he thought he knew is turned upside down: did Rosie really leave that night, or did someone stop her before she could? French, who briefly introduced Mackey in The Likeness, is adept at seamlessly blending suspenseful whodunit elements with Frank’s familial demons.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Bookmarks Magazine
As in her previous crime novels, French explores love, loss, and the powerful sway of memory in modern-day Dublin. Critics diverged, however, on aspects of Faithful Place. A few thought it French’s best to date, with its deft portrayal of sibling rivalry, class conflicts, memories of romance and violence, and, not least of all, her sharp portrait of the ”new Ireland.” Others, however, commented that Faithful Place was more a psychological and emotional thriller than a detective story. But all praised the novel’s deep characterizations and unpredictable twists and turns--and look forward to French’s next offering. After all, notes the New York Times Book Review, ”Tana French’s mysteries are like big old trees: the deeper their roots, the more luxurious the foliage they wave in your face.”

Hodder & Stoughton

9781444722017

2018-06-26 18:18:13