![]() ![]() Twenty years later, Frank is still in Dublin, and now head of the Undercover Squad. The life-altering event for Frank came at 19, when he planned to run off to London with his girlfriend Rosie Daly - who never turned up for their rendezvous. ![]() He has completely cut off all ties with his family, with the exception of his sister Jackie. The Likeness) is the classic rumpled detective of noirish thrillers - divorced, troubled, an escapee from a brutal childhood in Faithful Place, a working-class part of Dublin. Frank Mackey (formerly a minor character in But the problem with people whose lives are defined by such moments comes if - or rather when - those moments are proven false.įrench 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. This theme of the unknowability of the self is used to terrific effect in her first book, the multiple award-winningįaithful Place, French's brilliant third novel, she returns to this idea, where an event from the past, for which the protagonist does not have all the facts, still becomes the fulcrum upon which his entire life turns. At the heart of every Tana French novel lies a central mystery that casts a shadow upon its protagonist. ![]()
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