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Love of the Common People

Faithful Place by Tana French

February 10, 2019 by Zirza 1 Comment

On a street in a working class neighbourhood in Dublin, in the mid-eighties, nineteen year old Francis ‘Frank’ Mackey stands outside, in the middle of the night, waiting for his girlfriend, Rosie, with whom he is about to make a run for England. She never shows up. Twenty years later, Frank, now a member of Dublin’s undercover police force, receives a call from his panicked relatives. Someone has found Rosie’s suitcase in an abandoned house at the end of the street, and Frank’s theory that […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: crime, dublin murder squad, Ireland, Tana French, thriller

Zirza's CBR11 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: crime, dublin murder squad, Ireland, Tana French, thriller ·
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Tana French – READ HER BOOKS. PLEASE NOTE THE CAPS. I REALLY MEAN IT.

Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4) by Tana French

December 21, 2017 by cheerbrarian 1 Comment

This is the fourth of Tana French’s gripping “Dublin Murder Squad” series and I cannot get enough.  When someone asks for book recommendations she is always at the top of my list.  I don’t know if it is a fair comparison, but I say that if you have ever enjoyed an episode of any iteration of Law and Order you will like this book, and the whole series. To be accurate, her books aren’t your traditional “Law and Order” whodunnit format, but rather one of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: broken harbor, dublin murder squad, Tana French

cheerbrarian's CBR9 Review No:33 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: broken harbor, dublin murder squad, Tana French ·
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Dear Tana French, Never stop writing!!

September 5, 2017 by cheerbrarian 3 Comments

When I read Tana French’s debut thriller, In the Woods, my expectations were high because I had heard such great things about her storytelling, and she soared past my expectations. This was a book I did not put down, in fact, stuck in the car on a road trip I read on, knowing that reading in the car makes me feel gross.  It.  Did not.  Matter.  The oversimplified way I explain her style is that I tell people if you have ever been sucked into […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: dublin murder squad, faithful place, Ireland, Tana French

cheerbrarian's CBR9 Review No:23 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: dublin murder squad, faithful place, Ireland, Tana French ·
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More Murder Squad

August 7, 2017 by Rachie3879 1 Comment

I was loving Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad so much I went straight from Faithful Place to Broken Harbor, the fourth entry in the series. Broken Harbor features Frank’s classmate and Murder Squad star Mike “Scorcher” Kennedy. A family is found murdered in their homes at a remote, dilapidated estate near the coast called Brianstown. The Murder squad chief assigns the case to Kennedy, hoping he can wipe the slate clean after his disastrous handling of the murder in Faithful Place. Kennedy selects his rookie […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: dublin murder squad, rachie3879, Tana French

Rachie3879's CBR9 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: dublin murder squad, rachie3879, Tana French ·
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Grim, with a side of bleak

May 11, 2017 by Bothari43 5 Comments

  Unfortunately, I think I might be changing my mind about Tana French. I loved The Secret Place, but nothing since then has held up. I know my literary tastes tend to be a little on the pedestrian side, but I would like a few more loose ends tied up, and a little bit more of a happy ending. Detective Kennedy and his newbie partner Detective Curran (I listened to the audio book, sorry if I’m misspelling things) are assigned a case, the brutal slaying […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: dublin murder squad, Tana French

Bothari43's CBR9 Review No:12 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: dublin murder squad, Tana French ·
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It’s all about the Detectives

March 4, 2017 by reginadelmar Leave a Comment

It’s been a while since I’ve checked in on the Dublin Murder Squad.  One thing I like about Tana French is that she isn’t as prolific as many mystery writers are, making it fun to reacquaint oneself with the setting and some of the characters. I didn’t like the last book, The Secret Place, quite as much as earlier books, partly because the story was all about teenagers and that I found detective Antoinette Conway too angry and paranoid. I wasn’t sure what to expect […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: dublin murder squad, Tana French, the trespasser

reginadelmar's CBR9 Review No:8 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: dublin murder squad, Tana French, the trespasser ·
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