![]() Brendan, the eldest child went missing a few months previously and Trey wants Cal to help find him. Trey, is a 13 year old who is part of a family who live in the mountains which surround Ardenkelty. He is being watched, he knows it – he can feel a prickle at the back of his neck, but what he doesn’t expect is a young child to be the watcher. He cooks his meals on a camping stove, playing music on his iPhone, the inside of the house light up like a Christmas tree against the dark night. The bedroom has a camp bed and the bathroom a sheet at the window in lieu of a curtain. He has bought a ruin of a house in the middle of nowhere and is slowly renovating it, stripping back decades of wallpaper and pulling up mildew covered carpets. He soon discovers that a small town can be more oppressive than a big city and that the rules are very different. He has a feeling that something bad is going to happen and Ireland is supposed to be a fresh start, the landscape and space a balm to the scars left by working in the city. ![]() He has moved to Ireland to escape his wrecked marriage and his growing disenchantment with policing. Set in Ardenkelty, a small town in rural Ireland, its protagonist is Cal, an ex-Chicago cop. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Searcher, like The Wych Elm is a stand-alone, and boy is it good. I am a huge fan of the Dublin Murder Squadbooks and absolutely adored The Wych Elm and when I read she had a new book, The Searcher, coming out excitement levels were extremely high over at Beverley Has Read. Tana French is one of my most favourite writers. ![]()
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