![]() ![]() This is a standalone thriller from Tana French, author of the excellent Dublin Murder Squad books, and it finds her in barnstormingly good form. He has “a sense of being surrounded by a vast invisible web, where one wrong touch could shake things so far distant he hasn’t even spotted them”. ![]() Cal is forced to abandon his “newfound talent for letting things be”, drawn into Trey’s desperation by his “urgency, so concentrated that it shimmers the air around him like heat coming off a road”, and soon finds himself causing ripples in this tiny community as he tries to investigate without appearing to investigate, search without appearing to search. “Bored kids, ten to one,” he thinks, but he keeps an eye out, and eventually discovers a local boy who needs his help: Trey’s big brother has gone missing, and nobody seems to care. He’s fixing up his ramshackle home when the back of his neck starts flaring: someone is watching him. “I got weary… bone weary,” he says, as “every morning got to be like waking up with the flu, knowing he had to trek miles up a mountain”. Cal Hooper is a disillusioned former Chicago police officer who has left the force and moved to a remote village in the Irish countryside in an effort to find who he is again. ![]()
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