The Searcher by Tana French
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is one of Tana French's two stand-alone books. I read all six of her Dublin Murder Squad books and thoroughly enjoyed them. This book is very different in pace, tone, character, and plot from that series. Cal Hooper is a retired Chicago police officer who wants to get a fresh start -- he is recently divorced and his adult daughter lives in Seattle. He buys a run-down cottage and moves to a very small village on the western coast of Ireland. A local 12-year old whose brother has gone missing befriends Cal and asks for his assistance in finding out what happened to him. The plot and characters build very slowly but before I knew it I was invested in Cal and the village life. The writing is exactly what I would expect of Tana French -- very descriptive with a strong sense of place.
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