(Ebook) Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #03) by Tana French ISBN 9780670021871, 0670021873

(Ebook) Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #03) by Tana French ISBN 9780670021871, 0670021873

"Faithful Place is not a page-turner but a page-lingerer... Along with her riveting depiction of place, French has a gift for dialogue so genuine that you can hear her characters breathe. This goes beyond dialect... to a pure pleasure in wordplay and banter... Take this book slowly and savour the details. Like a slow pour of Guinness, it’s worth the wait."  -  Regina Marler, Los Angeles Times

Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping his family's cramped flat on Faithful Place and running away to London with his girl, Rosie Daly. But on the night they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn't show. Frank took it for granted that she'd dumped him - probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He never went home again. Neither did Rosie. Then, twenty-two years later, Rosie's suitcase shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place, and Frank, now a detective in the Dublin Undercover Squad, is going home whether he likes it or not.

"... French takes the peculiarities of the family drama - secrets nesting inside each other like Matrioshka dolls - and weaves them around what is technically a murder mystery... Although the story arc does finally provide the solution to the murder, that's really only the surface of this finely detailed, compelling and claustrophobic novel. Faithful Place grips the reader in its iron vice, like a dark childhood that won't release us until its inevitable, relentless conclusion has been reached."  -  Sandra Kasturi, The Globe and Mail