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Is The Secret Place on par with Faithful Place? I didn't care for Broken Harbor. Thanks.
Patrick King That's interesting you didn't like Broken Harbor. I thought that was the eeriest and most realistic of Ms. French's books.

The Secret Place is very goo…moreThat's interesting you didn't like Broken Harbor. I thought that was the eeriest and most realistic of Ms. French's books.

The Secret Place is very good. She alternates each chapter with the police procedure attempting to solve the murder of a school boy on the grounds of a girls' school, with the events that lead up to the murder. It's an unusual twist on the classic murder mystery. Each time I thought I'd worked out who did it and how it happened Ms. French turned the story by a hair and my opinion changed.

I loved Into The Woods, didn't like The Likeness at all, thought it completely improbable and much too long, enjoyed Faithful Place for the characters more than the story, was blown away by Broken Harbor, and see The Secret Place as the steady evolution of one of our most talented mystery writers.(less)
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