![]() But he finds himself getting involved in the search for Brendan, Trey’s older brother who had gone missing from home. He is a loner and wants a quiet life in which nothing much happens. Rural Ireland is still a place young men want to escape from: ‘The rest are hanging themselves, or they’re getting drunk and driving into ditches, or they’re overdosing on the aul’ heroin, or they’re packing their bags,’ Cal’s neighbour Mart tells him. After twenty five years in the Chicago police force, Cal has recently moved to the village, wanting to build a new life after his divorce. I dont know if Ive ever read a western, and maybe it means something different in Irish. The Searcher is her first book not to be set in Dublin, and though she relishes the spare beauty of the landscape, her interest is in the relationship between the land and the people who spend their lives working it. Tana French referred to The Searcher as her take on a western. As Cal digs deeper, it appears that there is not merely a lack of interest in uncovering the truth about Brendan’s disappearance but an active closing of ranks against anyone who tries.įrench’s novels frequently consider questions of identity, and what happens to characters when their sense of self is tested to breaking point. 6, 2020 A retired cop takes one last case in this stand-alone novel from the creator of the Dublin Murder Squad. ![]() ![]() The community regards Trey’s family as ‘wasters’. ![]() He does, of course a local kid, Trey, whose brother Brendan has been missing for six months, drafts Cal into helping to solve the mystery. Nicola Sturgeon can’t complain about polarisation ![]()
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