![]() ![]() ![]() “Faithful Place” is not a page-turner but a page-lingerer: French gives us a clear-eyed portrait of the Liberties as seen through a murder. Now he has to revise that story, go home at last and find a killer. When he returned to Dublin years later, he kept his distance from his brawling family in the Liberties (the inner city), who he was sure had driven his beloved away. After waiting all night for Rosie, he had taken the ferry alone. “I had spent my whole adult life growing around a scar shaped like Rosie Daly’s absence,” Frank observes. Inside the suitcase: shreds of clothes, two long-expired ferry tickets to London and Rosie’s birth certificate. One moldy suitcase found behind the fireplace of a derelict house derails a lifetime’s assumption. For 22 years, Frank Mackey of the Dublin Undercover Squad (who appeared in French’s previous novel, “The Likeness”) has defined himself by the loss of his first love, Rosie Daly, who ditched him - and was never seen or heard from again - on the night they were to elope to England. At the heart of Tana French’s third crime novel, “Faithful Place,” lies a tragic misunderstanding. ![]()
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