Rural Ireland is still a place young men want to escape from: ‘The rest are hanging themselves, or they’re getting drunk and driving into ditches, or they’re overdosing on the aul’ heroin, or they’re packing their bags,’ Cal’s neighbour Mart tells him. He is a father to an adult daughter who lives on the American west coast. Not long divorced from his wife whom he loves, he is still reeling from the failure of his marriage. The Searcher is her first book not to be set in Dublin, and though she relishes the spare beauty of the landscape, her interest is in the relationship between the land and the people who spend their lives working it. Tana French is primarily known for her Dublin Murder Squad mysteries, but her stand-alone novels are just as memorable. This is a slow, atmospheric mystery novel set in a fictional town in Ireland. The Searcher by Tana French Book Review Posted on Jby Fictionophile Cal Hooper is a very likable and strong protagonist. As Cal digs deeper, it appears that there is not merely a lack of interest in uncovering the truth about Brendan’s disappearance but an active closing of ranks against anyone who tries.įrench’s novels frequently consider questions of identity, and what happens to characters when their sense of self is tested to breaking point. Tana Frenchs crime novel is a slow burn of a suspense story. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising. The community regards Trey’s family as ‘wasters’. Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. He does, of course a local kid, Trey, whose brother Brendan has been missing for six months, drafts Cal into helping to solve the mystery. In its reviews of the novel, Kirkus praised its mix of police procedures, psychological thrills and gothic romance beautifully woven into one stunning story.
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