![]() ![]() ![]() It is up to the detectives, and each book is narrated by a different one - Rob Ryan in Woods, Cassie Maddox in Likeness, Frank Mackey in Faithful, Scorcher Kennedy in Harbor, and Stephen Moran in The Secret Place - to disentangle the most horrific crimes in the State of Ireland. No one and no place is safe from the reality of violence, from the intimacy of murder: in French’s world, victims, in the words of Detective Scorcher Kennedy, “ looking for exactly what they got.” Yet in each book, starting with In the Woods (2007) and continuing through The Likeness (2008), Faithful Place (2010), Broken Harbor (2012), and, now, The Secret Place, there is an element of accident for every killer’s manipulative maneuver, and a desperate war is waged between passion and rationality. In her five novels, narrated by members of the Dublin police force, families are laid waste, friendships shattered, and love affairs quashed. IRISH WRITER TANA FRENCH has invented a type of domestic terrorism all her own. ![]()
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