The Searcher takes place out in rural Ireland, an isolated place of farms and local folk who've known each other's nasty business for decades. The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley is one that comes to mind.įrench returns to what I feel she does best with this book: grit and grime. I also really liked the dynamic between the two main characters in The Searcher - Cal and Trey - and would liken it to a couple of other book relationships I've enjoyed, but it would be a bit of a spoiler to do so. Cal was far more interesting to me than Toby from her previous book. That being said, once I did make it past those first hundred pages and finally settled into the rhythm of this story, I began to really enjoy it. Neither this book nor The Witch Elm have grabbed me as fully as her Dublin Murder Squad books always did. The Searcher was another slow-starter from French, in my opinion. Goodreads tells me I was reading this latest Tana French book for twelve days, though I'd say a good ten of those days was getting through just the first hundred pages. Cal feels like he ought to stand on a street corner handing out warnings, little pieces of paper that just say: Anyone could do anything.
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