![]() ![]() ![]() Twenty years earlier the pair had been planning to run away together, but Rosie never turned up to their agreed rendezvous point, 16 Faithful Place, and Frank assumed he’d been unceremoniously dumped. Does this mean she never left the city? And if she didn’t leave, what happened to her?Įnter undercover cop Frank Mackey, who has an exceptional interest in the case: the suitcase belonged to his girlfriend Rosie Daly. The contents, which include her birth certificate, have not been disturbed. ![]() The investigation gets under way when the suitcase of a woman once believed to have left Dublin for England 20 years ago mysteriously turns up in an abandoned home. It’s a completely stand-alone work of fiction, but the story does tread similar territory in that it focuses on a murder investigation in modern day Dublin. I read this novel, her third, in just a couple of days and found it enormously entertaining if slightly over-written - and over-wrought - in places.įaithful Place is a crime thriller, but it doesn’t feature any of the main characters from her previous two novels - the police procedural In the Woods and its sequel The Likeness. ![]() I have Irish writer Tana French to thank for getting me out of my recent fictional reading slump. Fiction – Kindle edition Hodder & Stoughton 448 pages 2010. ![]()
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