By novel's end, any place - even the grimiest, meanest streets of hard-boiled crime fiction - seems preferable to the sinister, silent watchfulness of that lush Irish countryside. It lulls us readers into basking in French's radiant imagery and language, in particular its descriptions of the rough beauty of the west of Ireland, where the story takes place. MAUREEN CORRIGAN, BYLINE: "The Searcher" by Tana French is a slow burn of a suspense story. Book critic Maureen Corrigan has a review. Her latest novel, "The Searcher," is a straightforward and atmospheric tribute to a genre that's fallen out of favor - the Western, which also helped shape modern detective fiction. Tana French has gained acclaim as the creator of the "Dublin Murder Squad" crime series, but lately she's branched out into standalone suspense. Is this case another step in the campaign to force her off the squad, or are there darker currents flowing beneath its polished surface?Īntoinette knows the harassment has turned her paranoid, but she can’t tell just how far gone she is.This is FRESH AIR. And everything they find out about Aislinn takes her further from the glossy, passive doll she seemed to be.Īntoinette knows the harassment has turned her paranoid, but she can’t tell just how far gone she is. Aislinnʼs friend is hinting that she knew Aislinn was in danger.
There’s a shadowy figure at the end of Antoinetteʼs road. Other detectives are trying to push Antoinette and Steve into arresting Aislinn’s boyfriend, fast. There’s nothing unusual about her-except that Antoinette’s seen her somewhere before.Īnd that her death won’t stay in its neat by-numbers box.
Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty, groomed-to-a-shine, and dead in her catalog-perfect living room, next to a table set for a romantic dinner. Their new case looks like yet another by-the-numbers lovers’ quarrel gone bad. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she’s getting close to the breaking point. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she’s there. In bestselling author Tana French’s newest “tour de force” ( The New York Times), being on the Murder Squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. “Atmospheric and unputdownable.” - People She “inspires cultic devotion in readers” ( The New Yorker) and is “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” ( The Washington Post). The bestselling novel by Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher, is “required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting” ( The New York Times).
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