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Love of the Common People

Faithful Place by Tana French

February 10, 2019 by Zirza 1 Comment

On a street in a working class neighbourhood in Dublin, in the mid-eighties, nineteen year old Francis ‘Frank’ Mackey stands outside, in the middle of the night, waiting for his girlfriend, Rosie, with whom he is about to make a run for England. She never shows up. Twenty years later, Frank, now a member of Dublin’s undercover police force, receives a call from his panicked relatives. Someone has found Rosie’s suitcase in an abandoned house at the end of the street, and Frank’s theory that […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: crime, dublin murder squad, Ireland, Tana French, thriller

Zirza's CBR11 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: crime, dublin murder squad, Ireland, Tana French, thriller ·
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The place felt like a weapon expertly crafted to strip you of all humanity

The Witch Elm by Tana French

January 31, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

So if you’re familiar with the other Tana French novels, you know that each is narrated by a detective from the Dublin Murder Squad solving one primary case and maybe other connected cases. In general there’s a kind of slight overlap/relay race kind of structure from one novel to the next, where a secondary character from the previous novel picks up for the next novel. For me, the last two novels in this series were relatively weak, or rather, I felt the detective’s role as […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Tana French, The Witch Elm

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:59 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Tana French, The Witch Elm ·
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Episode 1-45: Backstabber, Hope Grabber, Greedy Little Fit Haver

December 12, 2018 by prisco Leave a Comment

https://killingmykindle.com/2018/12/13/episode-1-45-backstabber-hope-grabber-greedy-little-fit-haver/ Wherein I review: 171. The Devil’s Colony (Fatal Folklore Trilogy #3) by Bill Schweigart 172. The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin #6) by Patrick O’Brian 173. Bill, the Galactic Hero and The Planet of the Robot Slaves (Bill the Galactic Hero #2) by Harry Harrison 174. The Witch Elm by Tana French Anyone in America right now can tell you what’s scarier than monsters out of myth is actually creepy ass Nazis.  Speaking of America, that’s where the action moves in the Aubrey […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction Tagged With: aubrey & maturin, bill schweigart, bill the galactic hero, devil's colony, fatal folklore trilogy, fortune of war, Harry Harrison, killing my kindle, patrick o'brian, planet of the robot slaves, podcast, Tana French, The Witch Elm

prisco's CBR10 Review No:174 · Genres: Fiction, History, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction · Tags: aubrey & maturin, bill schweigart, bill the galactic hero, devil's colony, fatal folklore trilogy, fortune of war, Harry Harrison, killing my kindle, patrick o'brian, planet of the robot slaves, podcast, Tana French, The Witch Elm ·
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Tana French – take my money.

December 5, 2018 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

I have been recommending Tana French ad nauseum every time someone asks me for a book recommendation, ever since I discovered her delightful series in 2007. I have two left to read and I purposefully wait as looong as I can manage before reading one because they are so good and knowing I have one on the horizon makes me happy. That being said, imagine my delight as I’m perusing the “Hot Picks” aisle at my local library and see she has a new one […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Ireland, mystery, Tana French, The Witch Elm, thriller

cheerbrarian's CBR10 Review No:42 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Ireland, mystery, Tana French, The Witch Elm, thriller ·
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“The thing is, I suppose that one gets into the habit of being oneself. It takes some great upheaval to crack that shell and force us to discover what else might be underneath.”

November 29, 2018 by narfna Leave a Comment

What Tana French, one of my favorite authors, has done here with The Witch Elm (her first non-Dublin Murder Squad book) is very interesting, but I will acknowledge it probably won’t be for everyone. The two starting points for inspiration on this book are Who Put Bella in the Witch Elm? and the idea of: what if your protagonist was a guy who has never had to work hard for anything in his life? And then you swirl those ideas around for a while in […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: irish literature, mystery, narfna, psychological thriller, Tana French, The Witch Elm

narfna's CBR10 Review No:147 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: irish literature, mystery, narfna, psychological thriller, Tana French, The Witch Elm ·
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It’s impressive I still want to travel here…

November 9, 2018 by octothorp 1 Comment

Bingo Square for Dream Vacation. I’d love to go to Ireland, and funnily enough I bought this to read on my international trip where I met up with friends in Spain … after their first leg of the trip concluded in Dublin.  (Boring reasons I couldn’t go this time, but hoping to get another chance). Anyway, this is the fifth book I’ve read of French’s Dublin murder squad series, and given that theyre all about homicide, it’s pretty impressive that I still want to go, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: cbr10bingo, Dream Vacation, Tana French

octothorp's CBR10 Review No:58 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: cbr10bingo, Dream Vacation, Tana French ·
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