While channeling teens and cops alike, Tana French has OMG, like, totes, amazeball written a novel that seems all but certain to be among the best mysteries of the year The Christian Science Monitor The Secret Place is Tana French’s latest extraordinary. So he does not sound authentic as the Irish people do. The Secret Place rips you to shreds, too, but in all the right ways.
There is a difference between sounding country and sounding stupid. I understand that she wanted to make clear that he isn’t a big-city guy. Although French writes wonderful dialogue between Irish people, she doesn’t quite get it right with Cal. I don’t give this book five stars because I didn’t like the way Cal talked. Even so, he does get involved in this case, just like old times.Ĭal learns that small towns in Ireland can have the same trouble as big cities in the United States. This is what Cal thought he was leaving behind when he moved to Ireland. He thought it would be a quiet place to live.Ī 13-year-old, who Cal mistakes for a boy, has asked, practically demanded, that he look into the disappearance of her brother. Cal is American, a retired cop who has come to live in a small town in Ireland. That is, the main character of this book isn’t Irish. THE SEARCHER is a bit of a departure for French. In this case I’ll stick with four, though. Reviews of Tana French books never deserve fewer than four stars, and I’m usually inclined to give them five.
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