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“Cal feels like he ought to stand on a street corner handing out warnings, little pieces of paper that just say: Anyone can do anything.”

The Searcher by Tana French

December 17, 2020 by narfna 6 Comments

This was slower paced and less twisty-turny than her other books but I loved that about it. I liked her last book, The Witch Elm, but I loved this one. This is also a character study as well as a mystery/crime novel (that isn’t part of her Dublin Murder series), but here the protagonist is a former cop from Chicago who retired and decided to try and find peace in the Irish countryside. He bought a beaten down farmhouse and has spent a lot of […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: crime fiction, irish fiction, literary, mystery, narfna, psychological suspense, Tana French, The Searcher

narfna's CBR12 Review No:181 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: crime fiction, irish fiction, literary, mystery, narfna, psychological suspense, Tana French, The Searcher ·
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This was . . . weird.

Little Face (Spilling CID, #1) by Sophie Hannah

August 26, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

Well, this was an experience. Disappointing, kind of bonkers, somehow still readable, lots of plot holes. It felt good to clean it off my TBR, and I’ll probably continue the series just because I’m curious about the bizarre relationship between the two detectives, but boy was it not what I was expecting. The premise of this book is a good one, one that I don’t think it really delivers on: a woman leaves her house for the first time since her two week old baby […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: British, little face, mystery, narfna, psychological suspense, Sophie Hannah, spilling cid

narfna's CBR12 Review No:103 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: British, little face, mystery, narfna, psychological suspense, Sophie Hannah, spilling cid ·
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“If I had to get there without friends, I could do it. Had been doing it. I’d never met anyone who brought me somewhere I wanted to stay, looked at me and saw someone I wanted to be for good; anyone who was worth giving up the more I wanted down the line.”

The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5) by Tana French

July 30, 2020 by narfna 3 Comments

This is still my least favorite Dublin Murder book, but I found a little something more in it this time. I was actually kind of dreading revisiting this one, because the prospect of getting inside all those teenage girls’ heads just felt like way too much to handle at the moment. I used to be a teenaged girl, and I do not miss it. French is such a good writer, so evocative, that I just knew it was going to bring me right back to […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: crime, dublin murder squad, mystery, narfna, psychological suspense, Tana French, The Secret Place

narfna's CBR12 Review No:84 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: crime, dublin murder squad, mystery, narfna, psychological suspense, Tana French, The Secret Place ·
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A twisty psychological thriller. #CBRBingo – No Money!

His & Hers by Alice Feeney

July 9, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

NB: I received a free ARC of HIS & HERS by Alice Feeney from Macmillan in an exchange for an honest review. I’m somewhat at a loss as to what to say about this book. I was given an ARC by the publisher back in February, but it never arrived because I’d moved, and the USPS doesn’t forward packages, apparently. So they kindly sent me an e-book ARC instead, and that was a disaster. I know me and I should have said no, because it’s […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Alice Feeney, cbr12bingo, his & hers, mystery, narfna, psychological suspense, Suspense, thriller

narfna's CBR12 Review No:69 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Alice Feeney, cbr12bingo, his & hers, mystery, narfna, psychological suspense, Suspense, thriller ·
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Even better on re-read.

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

July 6, 2020 by narfna 2 Comments

This is one of my favorites from this series, and I’m kicking myself for not writing this review immediately upon finishing it for the second time, because I got something different out of it this time than I did on my first read. But I don’t remember what that was! The only notes I left myself consisted of the temporary review I left over on Goodreads, which read, “This one whomped me good.” So helpful. Maybe it was something about Scorcher and his black and […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: broken harbor, dublin murder squad, Irish, mystery, narfna, psychological, psychological suspense, re-read, Tana French

narfna's CBR12 Review No:61 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: broken harbor, dublin murder squad, Irish, mystery, narfna, psychological, psychological suspense, re-read, Tana French ·
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