Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3)

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The course of Frank Mackey's life was set by one defining moment when he was nineteen. The moment his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed to turn up for their rendezvous in Faithful Place, failed to run away with him to London as they had planned. Frank never heard from her again. Twenty years on, Frank is still in Dublin, working as an undercover cop. He's cut all ties with hi...more

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Jan 20, 2011 karen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: littry-fiction

tana french and i have come a long way, baby...

and with this book, we are officially in love.

this is exactly the kind of book i was expecting from her. in the woods was great at the start and frustrating at the end, and the likeness was tons of fun for a staggeringly unbelievable premise. but really, really fun.

but this one is just great. i don't read a lot of mysteries, but when i read a good one, i get this glow of "ohhhhh - that's why people like these". and in this case, it isn't even that t...more

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Jul 29, 2010 Jeanette rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: all-fiction, miss-trees, europe-and-british-isles, domestic-and-relationship-fiction

This is a murder mystery. Yes, it really is. Too bad the mystery gets pushed aside to make way for repetitive domestic fiction. Frank Mackey's family is of the Irish Catholic poorer class. The men are alcoholic and violent. The women are typical of any abusive family---placating, cowering, and above all, keeping the family secrets like good little enablers. Nothing new there. A bit of a snore, actually.

French's writing is up to its usual standards with regard to form, style, and dialogue. The I...more

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Mar 02, 2011 Tatiana rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011, mysteries-thrillers-horror, series-in-progress-still-like, b

As seen on The Readventurer

It might be a strange thing to say about a murder mystery/psychological thriller, but Faithful Place is a very romantic book.

You see, Frank Mackey here investigates the disappearance of his first love who he for over 20 years thought dumped him and ran away to England. The whole narrative is laced with Frank's memories of Rosie and their teenage romance. I didn't quite expect it, but the story gave me goosebumps like only a very few teen novels about first love ever d...more

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Jul 22, 2012 Evie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: suspense, adult

5 Stars: Loved it

Tana French knocked her third book, Faithful Place, out of the park. It isn’t just any old whodunit sleuthing story, but a great, emotionally charged story about love, longing and dysfunctional families that definitely raises the bar in the mystery genre. Her voice is fresh and believable. The prologue completely sucked me in and I had to buy this book. I don’t normally read prologues; they often seem weird and confusing to me so I skim the first few sentences, head straight for...more 5 Stars: Loved it

Tana French knocked her third book, Faithful Place, out of the park. It isn’t just any old whodunit sleuthing story, but a great, emotionally charged story about love, longing and dysfunctional families that definitely raises the bar in the mystery genre. Her voice is fresh and believable. The prologue completely sucked me in and I had to buy this book. I don’t normally read prologues; they often seem weird and confusing to me so I skim the first few sentences, head straight for chapter one, then maybe I'll go back and read them once I’m committed. But not this time, not this one:

"In 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..."

Brilliant. Tana French does an outstanding job of setting the tone, setting up the main character, Francis Mackey, as the now long suffering middle-aged detective haunted by an event from his past.

“…Over more than half my life it had worn itself a nice little corner in my mind, like a bullet lodged too deep to dig out; I didn’t feel the sharp edges, mostly, as long as I didn’t touch.”

I couldn't help but fall in love with Frank Mackey, and find out his story. He's complicated, real, and oh so believable. The pacing was perfect and as the plot unfolded, I was on the edge of my seat. Flashbacks are handled skillfully and without confusion. Every character is rich and well rounded with their Irish slang and quick wit. I laughed. I cried. I wanted a pint of Guinness.

Faithful Place wins a spot on my "favorite book" list, and Tana French as a new "must read" author.

Excellent story and highly recommended if you enjoy mysteries.(less)

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Aug 15, 2010 RH Walters rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

What French does best is ally you with her character's deepest wishes, and I was very involved emotionally in her other stories. When Rob in In The Woods desperately tried to solve the mystery of his own childhood the forest seemed to breathe back at him, and when Cassie in The Likeness fell in love with a utopian country house and its creators I understood her desire to stay and belong. Frank, on the other hand, is a swaggering divorced cop with an estranged family and lost first love, but what...more

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Aug 13, 2010 Sandi rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-thriller, audiobooks, 2010

I read both of Tana French's prior books in print and was really looking forward to reading this one as well. However, when I listened to the sample on Audible, I just knew that this one had to be listened to rather than read. Tim Gerard Reynolds does an absolutely perfect job with the story of Frank Mackey. I found myself listening at times when I otherwise wouldn't be listening to an audio book.

Ostensibly, Faithful Place is a murder mystery. However, it's really a story about family and the m...more

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Oct 01, 2011 Debra rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-thriller, series

I honestly think this 3rd book in the Dublin series is the best of all. And the first 2 were excellent. French is such a great writer of vivid scenes and well-drawn characters who are not stereotyped. No villains really, no heroes. Lots of grays, as it is in the real world. Boy and can she describe the dysfunctional family with finesse. I can't wait to read more by Ms. French!

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Mar 27, 2011 Megan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, favorites

At this point, after reading Faithful Place I am pretty much an official Tana French fangirl and am afraid that all further reviews of her work will be reduced to inept gushing over how, like, totally awesome her novels are. These glowing reviews are also gonna include rants about people who dislike her books, how they are stupid fecking eejits who clearly aren’t reading these books the right way ;)

Seriously, though there are quite a few reviews of Faithful Place here on Goodreads which criticiz...more At this point, after reading Faithful Place I am pretty much an official Tana French fangirl and am afraid that all further reviews of her work will be reduced to inept gushing over how, like, totally awesome her novels are. These glowing reviews are also gonna include rants about people who dislike her books, how they are stupid fecking eejits who clearly aren’t reading these books the right way ;)

Seriously, though there are quite a few reviews of Faithful Place here on Goodreads which criticize French for making protagonist Frank Mackey sound too much like a woman, and not enough like a cynical, divorced, undercover cop. These people must not have read The Likeness, French’s second novel, where we officially meet Frank. There, we see him through Detective Cassie Maddox’s eyes as the cynical arsehole he is. Just one of the things I love about Faithful Place is that we still see moments when Frank does whatever it takes to meet his ends, but we also see who he really is, what his soft spots are, and what made him that way. Had French written this novel showing us Frank just as disenchanted and snarky on the inside as he presents himself to be, this novel would not have been nearly as interesting. Seeing both sides of Frank makes him a much better character. Besides, French already did sarcastic and cynical with Rob Ryan in In the Woods. Speaking of which, people who say French cannot write a male protagonist have evidently not read that book….

You see, fangirl rants! Really, that’s all I can do when “reviewing” this novel. It’s hard to put into words what exactly I loved about this. French’s writing is so engrossing, her characters amazingly flawed and believable, and her settings so realistic. For a proper review, let me refer you to Tatiana. Here, I’m simply going to finish by saying I have been giving each book in this series four stars. But the third ~~time~~ book is a charm. Rather than being so stingy with those stars, this one gets five stars, as do The Likeness and In the Woods. (Of course, if Tana French never takes us back to Rob Ryan’s mystery, I fully reserve the right to take these all back down to four stars!)

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Sep 11, 2011 Kp rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I'm only 1/2 way through, and I really like this book a lot. I'm trying to figure out what I like so much about Tana French, and I think it's that she is SO GOOD at portraying strong emotions in a character and also eliciting strong emotions in her readers - me! In this book Frank Mackey asks the question, "What would you die for?" I love the way he then expresses his love for Rosie that has carried through the years since he saw her. Then there is the nostalgia of childhood, family, and neighbo...more

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Nov 19, 2010 Travis rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was a bit of a disappointment. I checked it out from our local library after reading a short but positive review in Newsweek, I believe. But I thought the praise was largely undeserved.

The novel's protagonist is an Irish undercover cop whose life is disrupted when the suitcase of his teenage sweetheart turns up in a abandoned ruin near where they were supposed to meet before eloping to England years before. In order to solve the mystery of what he increasingly becomes convinced was hi...more This book was a bit of a disappointment. I checked it out from our local library after reading a short but positive review in Newsweek, I believe. But I thought the praise was largely undeserved.

The novel's protagonist is an Irish undercover cop whose life is disrupted when the suitcase of his teenage sweetheart turns up in a abandoned ruin near where they were supposed to meet before eloping to England years before. In order to solve the mystery of what he increasingly becomes convinced was his girlfriend's death, and thus discover if she had indeed deserted him at the metaphorical altar as he had believed at the time or had been the victim of foul play, he returns home to the troubled family he had abandoned after her disappearance.

As a murder mystery, the book is pretty involving. In fact, I finished reading it because I became so invested in the plot and its outcome. The trouble is the authorial voice. The book is written by a woman, and in my experience there aren't too many authors of fiction who can convincingly pull off a gender switch involving their principal narrator (I had the same problem reading Robinson's "Gilead"). In this case, that task is complicated by the supposedly hard-boiled character French chooses for her protagonist. There are just too many places in the book where the first person narration and dialogue waxes way too 'Oprah Winfrey' for an Irish undercover cop, especially when he's talking with other men--those conversations never play out the way conversations would between most men, much less, between men who are also cops. In short, I just never felt that Tana French inhabited the soul of her protagonist; his mannerisms and speech always felt contrived. That, and the fact that the narration unintentionally and obtrusively lapses at times into Raymond Chandleresque self-parody--without Chandler's flair or subtle humor, tainted the reading experience for me.

So, in this case I'd give high marks to the story, but mediocre marks to the way that story is told. Sorry Tana.(less)

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Jun 28, 2011 Julie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.

We were still at...more

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Apr 30, 2013 Barrie Summy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Barrie by: Kelly Hayes, Ellen Booraem

Thus far, Faithful Place is my fave Tana French book.

In a nutshell: Undercover Detective Frank (Francis) Mackey is drawn back into his inner-city Dublin neighborhood when his childhood girlfriend's suitcase and then murdered body shows up twenty-two years after she disappeared. He's gone out of his way for years to avoid this neighborhood along with his dysfunctional family (complete with sibling rivalries, an abusive and alcoholic father, a critical and guilt-tripping mother). Frank was a suppo...more

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Jan 07, 2011 Kristin rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, series, reviewed, read-in-2011, brit-fic

Tana French truly has a gift for writing. She's the kind of author who makes me so ecstatic that I can read. Her descriptions leap off the page. One that particularly stuck with me was about a back garden at night: “The dim orange glow coming from nowhere in particular gave the garden a spiky Tim Burton look." I can SEE that garden. French is smart with her many references, and she allows that the reader is smart too. Fantastic.

I thought Faithful Place started off much better than her first two...more

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Nov 26, 2010 Gloria rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

After recently having finished Emma Donoghue's ROOM, it was interesting to pick up this book and realize, Yes, the Irish have an innate ability to tell marvelous stories.

Faithful Place follows Frank Mackey, an Irish cop who's forced to go back to the rough, working-class neighborhood of his youth-- the place where his first love left him a "Dear John" letter, which compelled him to walk away from that life and never return.
Until now.
The discovery of her long decomposed body begins to shed a whol...more

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Sep 23, 2010 Sian Milne rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

First time I have read anything from this author.

It started off quite slow in my opinion, didnt really feel like it was going anywhere...by about 100 pages I was into it and didnt want to put it down.

I really liked the main character Frank, he was very well written and a character that people could easily relate to. The Mackey family were truly awful and like Frank I would have ran from them as well.
I would have liked the book to have been in more than just his perspective. I like to get a feel...more

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Aug 17, 2010 Ngaire rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-thriller-suspense, books-i-loved

I think this is my least favorite of French's books so far, but she did set the bar insanely high with In the Woods, and it's a bit unfair to expect her every book to be that good. Frank is a great character and the gut wrenching tragedy of this book is that he never suspects who the killer is, even though it's pretty obvious to us (or at least it was to me). I think what's wonderful about this book is the descriptions of working class Dublin and the people of Faithful Place. You feel like you k...more

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Jul 14, 2010 Nan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: nook, favorites, suspense, family-fiction

I adore Tana French's Murder Squad series.

As with the first two books in this series, Faithful Place can be read with little or no familiarity with the series. The only crossover characters I recognized this time were Frank Mackey (obviously) and Cooper the pathologist. (By the way, I have to add that I love the fact so far that all three narrators in each book have asserted that Cooper hates pretty much everybody but likes each of them . . .)

This novel follows Frank Mackey, the Undercover Detec...more I adore Tana French's Murder Squad series.

As with the first two books in this series, Faithful Place can be read with little or no familiarity with the series. The only crossover characters I recognized this time were Frank Mackey (obviously) and Cooper the pathologist. (By the way, I have to add that I love the fact so far that all three narrators in each book have asserted that Cooper hates pretty much everybody but likes each of them . . .)

This novel follows Frank Mackey, the Undercover Detective from The Likeness. Frank is eager to spend his weekend with his daughter, Holly, but when he arrives home, he discovers that his sister has been calling repeatedly. Jackie is the only member of his family that he's been in contact with since he left them 22 years before. For her to call him at home means it's an emergency. He takes Holly back to her mother (who is on the all important "fourth date" with a guy Frank calls "Dermo"), and returns to Faithful Place, the street where he grew up.

Once there, he discovers why his family wanted him--some renovators found Rosie's suitcase. He and Rosie were supposed to leave for England together, but she never arrived at their meeting place. After finding a note in 16 Faithful Place, the abandoned building used by all of the teenagers, Frank believes that Rosie has gone on to England without him, and he left his family that night. But now it would seem that she never left Faithful Place at all.

This is a fantastic novel. It follows Frank through his reintroduction to his family and his attempts to solve the 22 year old murder. And murder it is--they find Rosie's body the next day. But this won't be the only crime on Faithful Place, and Frank finds himself pulled into old relationships against his will.

Faithful Place is one of those neighborhoods that everyone knows--it's working poor, but not trashy. In recent years, it's even been settled by yuppies. But at its heart, it's still the old neighborhood, fueled by gossip and scandal, living on the edge of the law, and where any crime is forgivable--except squealing.

As a member of the Guard, Frank is both inside and outside the culture of the Place. This case will test his loyalties and ask what he's willing to sacrifice in order to find the truth about Rosie and her last night.

Unlike French's other novels, this one didn't have the same "train wreck" quality. About halfway through In the Woods and The Likeness, it's easy to see that neither story is going to allow the detectives to escape unscathed. Faithful Place doesn't have that same aura, but it is still a hugely satisfying read. French has a gift for writing from a first person perspective. Her narrators are fully developed characters, and their personalities shape the entire book. Mackey likes to tell trainees that the world is two degrees more cynical than they expect, but even he hasn't learned the full implications of that statement. Here, back on Faithful Place, it'll hit home for him in ways that he never wanted to see.
I cannot wait for the next book--according to this interview with Tana French, the next narrator is Scorcher Kennedy, a character introduced here. I can't wait to see what the world looks like through his eyes.(less)

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Jan 30, 2011 Elizabeth rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, mystery, 2011

Faithful Place, the third book by Tana French, is centered on Frank Mackey, an undercover detective that must go back home after 20 years and deal with his estranged family after the suitcase of his first love is found, revealing that she might not have left for England after all. Like the previous two novels, French takes us into the inner life of her narrator, revealing the ways in which the events and relationships of Frank's early life have affected his adulthood and throws us into his turmo...more

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Aug 14, 2010 Jessica rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I love Tana French's books. I was a little frustrated with the inconclusive ending of "In The Woods." But I've grown to like this unfinished finish style of French's. All the untied-up strings of "Faithful Place" felt very true to life, but there was just enough conclusion for the character of Frank. He seems to accept that his inability to control every outcome, that he doesn't know what the future holds, that he has to let certain dogs lie, and that running away doesn't make his problems disap...more

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Aug 10, 2011 Katie M. rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011

While they're all good, I was not so impressed with The Likeness (book 2 of French's Dublin murder trilogy) as I was with her first one, In the Woods. But with this book - the final installment of the trilogy - French's writing is back with a vengeance and then some. Calling it a murder mystery doesn't do it justice - the mystery itself is sort of beside the point. It's about the characters and the relationships, and very few people do damaged, hardboiled, infuriatingly likeable protagonists as...more

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Jan 10, 2012 Brigit Zelenak rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

After reading her first two offerings I was fairly certain I'd love this one too, and I wasn't wrong. Loosely intertwined, each of Tana French's novels are ostensibly murder-mysteries, but more to the point they're a master course in character development.

She writes her characters beautifully. One thing I particularly love: the fact that no one's perfect. No one's noble to a fault. No one preaches and no one is 100% likable. Kind of like real life.

Faithful Place also adds a layer of family dysf...more

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Aug 08, 2010 Brian rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2010, fiction

Tana French's Faithful Place is the best novel I've read since The Garden of Last Days by Dubus. Her characters are chatty, complex, and compelling. The atmosphere is inviting without getting bogged down in minute detail. And of Dublin she writes, "this is the only city where I know all the little details, the short cuts, the slang, the sense of humor (nobody comes up with creative insults quite like the Dubs), the various neighborhood accents and their social connotations, the best places to ge...more

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Sep 12, 2012 Elaine rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2010

A big letdown after her other books, both of which had intriguing if farfetched premises that kept the momentum going (even though she never quite knew how to end them). There is little surprise or suspense in this book, where the murderer is pretty well telegraphed early on. On the other hand, there are pages and pages of very trite sounding dialogue, descriptions of life in a drunken poor abusive Irish family (and she doesn't have Frank McCourt's way with words...), a lot of time spent with a...more

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May 21, 2011 Kari rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I've read Into the Woods and thought to give French another whirl. Again, the story line is ok, the characters ok, the writing ok. Nothing to rave about, but not a bad book either. It hasn't been gripping me, it's actually pretty easy to put down each night. If you liked Into the Woods you will probably enjoy this one as well. If you are more like me and thought Into the Woods was ok, well, I wouldn't bother reading this one too.

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Feb 15, 2012 Kathy rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery

The previous Tana French novel that I read, In the Woods, left me disgruntled with the ending. I'm happy to say that Faithful Place did a much better job of tying up loose ends in its final pages. Not sure why I seem to read books depicting Ireland as a scruffy, depressing setting. I need to find some books set in some of the beauty that Ireland so bountifully encompasses. I suppose city versus countryside comes into play here. French explores the grittier side of being Irish and family relation...more

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Aug 16, 2010 Carol rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-thriller

I love books with an Ireland setting; although, Dublin is one of my least favorite parts of this beautiful country. I enjoy the village and coutryside settings, characters, and stories more.

I did not find much suspense in this mystery, but I thoroughly enjoyed the characters. I found myself rooting for, sympathizing with, and despising many (sometimes all three feelings for the same person!). It was truly a page-turner for me. My biggest disappointment is that there were too many situations lef...more

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Jul 27, 2011 Steve rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: crime-mys-suspense

I really like how Tana French introduces a secondary character in one novel, then makes him / her the lead character in the next. Detective Frank Mackey returns to his family and the neighborhood of his youth after 22 years to investigate when the suitcase of his former girlfriend is discovered in an abandoned house. Frank had planned to run away with her all those years ago but when she failed to meet him as planned, he assumed she'd left without him. Find it @ the Orion Library.

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Oct 15, 2011 Jen Koontz rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book is good in terms of character development, motivation, domestic drama, etc. The way the mystery unfolds and the reasons for it is interesting.

However in terms of the actual mystery, it's very obvious from the beginning who the killer is. Disappointing compared to her last few novels where the mysteries were actual mysteries and the reveal was shocking and exciting.

I still love me some Tana French and her psycho-thriller mystery style though. I would buy her next novel.

Still pissed s...more

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Jul 29, 2011 Joy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Tana French has written a seriously good trilogy of mysteries, and the last one was my favorite. In fact, I've upped my rating to 5 stars after further reflection. Frank is the perfect character - flawed but pretty self-aware and decent - with a haunting past that sets up a gripping, twisting story that kept me up way too late. French is a gorgeous writer, and, mercifully, she's almost completely recovered from her crippling reliance on foreshadowing, which was my complain in the first two insta...more

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Apr 02, 2013 Alessandra Trindle rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

If I wanted to give The Likeness 4.5 stars, I'd really like to give Faithful Place 3.75. The character of Frank Mackey is perhaps my least favorite of the detectives so far, and the mystery that compels him to return home after abruptly leaving 22 years before turns out to be heart-wrenching and devastatingly personal to Frank.

The mystery part was great, though I suspected the killer sooner than I should have. What I had trouble with was Frank and the Mackey family. While Tana French does an exc...more

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Tana French grew up in Ireland, Italy, the US and Malawi, and has lived in Dublin since 1990. She trained as a professional actress at Trinity College, Dublin, and has worked in theater, film and voice-over.

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“I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.” — 173 people liked it

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