![]() ![]() The Secret Place seemed to me both like a return to form - in that it was innovative and gripping and a departure from it - in that she finally dumped the “this case has eerie connections to my personal life but I’m going to keep working it no matter how ill-advised that is” trope. In her first two books this gave the plot more depth than an average whodunit, but in the second two the personal connections to the case seemed overbearing. ![]() She established a sort of trademark formula in which the murder case that the detective was working had resonance in their own lives - usually by way of dragging up bad memories. Each of her books center on a Dublin homicide detective, and although they’re not strictly a series, each new book’s detective has been a character in a previous book. I have been a fan of Tana French since I read In the Woods and The Likeness, but I felt that with Faithful Place and Broken Harbor she was kind of in a rut. What follows is our email correspondence about the novel and French’s work in general. ![]() Janet got her paws on it early this summer and I read it in a breathless rush last week so that we could discuss ASAP. ![]() Fellow Millions staff writer Janet Potter and I enjoy a lot of the same books, and we were both giddy to read The Secret Place, the fifth book in Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series. ![]()
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