(No accident that these are the most female-centered of her novels.) I especially love The Secret Place, set largely in a girl’s school, with its dreamy terrors, though, if pressed, I’d choose Broken Harbour (2012), set in the Gothic ruins of the Celtic Tiger’s economic collapse, as my favourite French. I even love the books that most readers dislike, The Likeness (2008) and The Secret Place (2014). There are too many books to read for a pace this slow.I’m a huge fan of French’s in my opinion, there’s no better writer in crime fiction today.
In conclusion, The Searcher is a solid pass from me. By the time that his background is finally, finally revealed, I just did not care anymore. Most of Cal’s background information arrives in the last half of the book. In my opinion, the author overly explains events. When there finally is a reveal, the author stretches it out so much. Usually, I enjoy hearing the character’s thoughts, but in this case, it is overly done. This is a book where the character loves to talk about every single possibility, every possible path. Rooks, the birds (not the chess pieces), were mentioned 40 times! There is so much filler in this book that the editor should cut at least 70% of the book. Most of the book is Cal fixing his house, descriptions of hunting (even very gruesome details), and a lot of people that don’t know anything. Every time, I tried to read The Searcher, I dreaded it. I started listening at 1.5X speed and ended up at 2X speed. However, this book is slow, painfully slow. Aside from the setting, I also enjoyed that the women were not depicted as boy crazed. The Searcher is set in modern-day Ireland, a setting that I love. When the police don’t care about your problems, who can you turn to? Apparently, Cal Hooper. The boy wants Cal’s help with finding out what happened to his brother who has gone missing. One day, he is minding his own business, living the simple life that he has always wanted, when a young boy stops over at his house. Tana French’s The Searcher is the slowest mystery that I have ever read.Ĭal Hooper is a retired police officer who finds himself in Ireland, fixing up a rather old house on a small spot of land.
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