“He had a very odd moral sense,” she says during a phone call to her home in Dublin. “I have this feeling that mystery fiction, almost more than any other genre, is really rooted in the society where it is set.”įrench didn’t always intend to write about Frank next, but while working on The Likeness, she found herself becoming interested in him. Readers who have already met some of the indelible characters in Irish author Tana French’s earlier thrillers, In the Woods and The Likeness, greeted the news of her third novel with excitement, perhaps hoping to see some familiar faces.Īlthough neither Rob Ryan nor Cassie Maddox-protagonists of the first two books-appears in Faithful Place, the story does revolve around a character introduced in the previous novel: Frank Mackey, a cop on Dublin’s Undercover Squad, who turned up as Cassie’s former boss in The Likeness.
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