Faithful Place - A Novel

Zusatztext “Tana French’s mysteries are like big old trees: the deeper their roots! the more luxurious the foliage they wave in your face.” -- Marilyn Stasio! The New York Times Book Review   “French does something fresh with every novel! each one as powerful as the last but in a very different manner. Perhaps she has superpowers of her own? Whatever the source of her gift! it’s only growing more miraculous with every book.” -- Laura Miller! Salon.com   “An expertly rendered! gripping new novel” --Janet Maslin! The New York Times   “Irish writer Tana French hit the big time with her stunning cop-drama debut! “ In the Woods !” and followed it with an equally brilliant book! “The Likeness.” Both demonstrated French’s gift for merging the best traits of the crime genre with the compassionate insights and nimble prose associated with “serious” literature. A third dazzler! “ Faithful Place !” puts Detective Frank Mackey! a supporting actor from “The Likeness!” front and center.” -- The Seattle Times   “French’s emotionally searing third novel of the Dublin Murder Squad (after The Likeness ) shows the Irish author getting better with each book.” -- Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)   “[French] revisits! evocatively and lyrically! themes she's used before: love! loss! memory! murder! and life in modern Ireland. French's writing remains brilliant! and her dialogue is sharp! often lacerating! and sometimes mordantly funny. Faithful Place is her best book yet.” -- Booklist (starred review)   “The charming narrative will leave readers begging for a sequel.” -- Kirkus Reviews   “Powerful...An authentic Irish heartbreaker” -- The Star-Ledger (Newark)   Informationen zum Autor Tana French  is also the author of  In the Woods ,  The Likeness ,  Faithful Place ,  Broken Harbor, The Secret Place  and The Trespasser . Her books have won awards including the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards, the  Los Angeles Times  Award for Best Mystery/Thriller, and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction. She lives in Dublin with her family. Klappentext From Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Hunter , "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years" ( The Washington Post ), the New York Times bestseller called "the most stunning of her books" ( The New York Times ) and a finalist for the Edgar Award. Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping hisi family's cramped flat on Faithful Place and running away to London with his girl, Rosie Daly. But on the night they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn't show. Frank took it for granted that she'd dumped him--probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He never went home again. Neither did Rosie. Then, twenty-two years later, Rosie's suitcase shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place, and Frank, now a detective in the Dublin Undercover squad, is going home whether he likes it or not. Prologue I n all your life, only a few moments matter. Mostly you never get a good look at them except in hindsight, long after they’ve zipped past you: the moment when you decided whether to talk to that girl, slow down on that blind bend, stop and find that condom. I was lucky, I guess you could call it. I got to see one of mine face-to-face, and recognize it for what it was. I got to feel the riptide pull of my life spinning around me, one winter night, while I waited in the dark at the top of Faithful Place. I was nineteen, old enough to take on the world and young enough to be a dozen kinds of stupid, and that night as soon as bot...

Product details

• Authors: Tana French
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.06.2011
• EAN: 9780143119494
• ISBN: 978-0-14-311949-4
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Dublin Murder Squad
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Irische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.)