Tana French, Author . Viking $24.95 (466p) ISBN 978-0-670-01886-4
Edgar-winner French blurs the boundaries between victim and cop, memory and fantasy, in this stunning sequel to her debut, In the Woods
. Det. Cassie Maddox, a dead ringer for Lexie Madison, whose body has been found on the outskirts of the Irish...
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Tana French. Viking, $32 (480p) ISBN 978-0-593-49343-4
Edgar winner French’s slow-burn sequel to 2015’s The Searcher underlines her knack for setting and character development. Teenager Trey Reddy is less than pleased by her ne’er-do-well father Johnny’s unexpected return to the small Irish village of...
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Tana French. Viking, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-0-7352-2465-0
After 25 years as a Chicago cop, Cal Hooper, the protagonist of this superb standalone from Edgar winner French (The Witch Elm), decided he needed a change. So he moved to a village in the West of Ireland, “no bigger than the little end of nothing,”
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Tana French. Viking, $28 (464p) ISBN 978-0-7352-2462-9
Reviewed by Julie Buntin
The Witch Elm is Tana French’s first standalone, following six Dublin Murder Squad mysteries. It’s as good as the best of those novels, if not better. In theme and atmosphere, it evokes her earliest two books, Into the...
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Tana French. Viking, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-0-670-02633-3
Det. Antoinette Conway takes center stage in Edgar-winner French’s sharp but shakily paced sixth Dublin Murder Squad novel (after 2014’s The Secret Place). When Aislinn Murray, a young woman just coming into her own, is found in her picture-perfect...
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Tana French. Viking, $27.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-670-02632-6
In French’s mesmerizing fifth Dublin Murder Squad mystery (after 2012’s Broken Harbor), Det. Stephen Moran, who works in the cold-case unit, is biding his time until he can make the Murder Squad. When 16-year-old Holly Mackey, a colleague’s daughter,
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Tana French. Viking, $27.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-670-02365-3
Edgar-winner French’s eloquently slow-burning fourth Dublin murder squad novel shows her at the top of her game. In a half-built luxury development near Dublin, a family of four is attacked and left for dead, with only the mother clinging to life....
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Tana French, Viking, $25.95 (432p) ISBN 9780-670-02187-1
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
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Tana French, Author . Viking $24.95 (429p) ISBN 978-0-670-03860-2
Irish author French expertly walks the line between police procedural and psychological thriller in her debut. When Katy Devlin, a 12-year-old girl from Knocknaree, a Dublin suburb, is found murdered at a local archeological dig, Det. Rob Ryan and...
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Tana French, read by Tim Gerard Reynolds, Recorded Books, unabridged, 13 CDs, 16.25 hrs., $44.99 ISBN 978-1-4498-3940-6
For the third novel in her Dublin Murder Squad mystery series, French focuses on Squad detective Frank Mackey (a secondary character in The Likeness) as its protagonist, a man faced with new evidence that his first love may have been murdered years...
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Tana French, read by Stephen Hogan. Recorded Books, library edition, unabridged, 17 CDs, 20 hrs., $132.75 ISBN 978-1-4640-4899-9
You can tell from the very start that Stephen Hogan’s narration of French’s fourth thriller about the coppers of Dublin’s murder squad is going to be a standout. It’s not just because his melodic, accented voice is such a perfect fit for the book’s...
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Tana French, read by Stephen Hogan and Lara Hutchinson. Penguin Audio, , unabridged, 16 CDs, 20 hrs., $50 ISBN 978-1-61176-135-1
French’s fifth Dublin Murder Squad entry focuses on Stephen Moran, a smart detective feeling his ambition cool in the cold-cases department. When 16-year-old Holly Mackey, a student at St. Kilda’s exclusive suburban school for girls, presents him...
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Tana French, read by Hilda Fay. Penguin Audio, , unabridged, 18 CDs, 21 hrs., $55 ISBN 978-0-7352-8868-3
In the sixth entry of French’s Dublin Murder Squad series, Detectives Steve Moran and Antoinette Conway investigate the death of a young woman fatally battered in her apartment. Whereas 2014’s The Secret Place was told from Steve’s perspective, the...
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