![]() ![]() He found an old house in a small town full of busybodies and expects to live peacefully there. Instead, we get Cal, who spent 25 years with the Chicago Police Department before retiring to - what else? - go fishing.įor reasons that emerge during “The Searcher,” the recently divorced Cal has moved to Ireland to restart his life. In previous books these crimes have generally required the sleuthing efforts of the Dublin Murder Squad, but she (and we) aren’t having that this time. She writes full-bodied novels in which crimes happen to have been committed. All this stand-alone shares with her other work is the nonstop malaise that feels like “light flashing on a river, with who knows what underneath.”Īs her devotees already know, French doesn’t write genre books or thrillers. ![]() But now that he’s living there, the rugged beauty of the region overwhelms him, as it will anyone reading Tana French’s “The Searcher,” an audacious departure for this immensely talented author. The west of Ireland looked good to Cal Hooper on the internet. ![]()
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