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Faithful Place by Tana French - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 08-23-2010
Where are my other reviews of the Tana French books? Who took them, dammit? Previously, Ms. French wrote "Into the Woods" and "The Likeness" Although the books are all based in Dublin and feature the Dublin police force, they are all stand alone novels. There is some crossover of characters, but you can read them by themselves without any problems. And I suggest you read them all. Now. Especially "Faithful Place" which is the latest. All I know is that Ms. French needs to write her books faster. If she comes down to the George Martin pace I will have to shoot myself.
As mysteries, the books are good. As evocations of time and place and people, they are fabulous. Her ability to capture Irish dialogue and Irish characters is great. We really need to start using the word gobshite.
"Faithful Place" is the story of Francis Mackey of the Dublin Undercover squad and his family and the disappearance of his girlfriend from long ago. It's an intricately wound plot involving jealousy and family rivalry and a street called Faithful Place in the Liberty section of Dublin.
What makes the story great for me, and I don't know why, no really, is that a lot of the tale is told in Flashbacks to the early eighties in Ireland. There is descriptions of the musics and the culture and is all very nostalgic for me. There are a couple of instances in the book where it has been edited for an American audience. The one that leaps to mind is the use of the word baseball bat. There weren't a lot of baseball bats at that time.
It's a fine read and you Gobshites should go out and read it now.