![]() ![]() ![]() Away to the north, a line of low mountains rolls along the horizon.” In the novel’s first few pages, we’re introduced to the main character, Cal, a former cop who has relocated (alone) from Chicago to rural Ireland, as well as the major themes of the story: the labor involved in the renovation of an old house, the task that Cal has set himself in his self-imposed exile, and Cal’s life as an outcast, exemplified in his relation to a flock of rooks nesting in a tree in his yard. ![]() French is the author of six novels in her “Dublin Murder Squad” police procedural series (the first two of which were recently filmed as The Dublin Murders, a TV series produced by the BBC and Starz), as well as a previous stand-alone novel, The Witch Elm.įrench portrays a rich Irish landscape at the edges of a townland in the west of the country: “The sky, dappled in subtle gradations of gray, goes on forever so do the fields, coded in shades of green by their different uses, divided up by sprawling hedges, dry-stone walls and the odd narrow back road. ![]() IN THE SEARCHER, Tana French stakes out new territory: a rural Irish setting quite different from the urban and suburban Ireland of her previous works, and a central character who is an American, while her previous characters have been native Irish. ![]()
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