Faithful place6/19/2023 ![]() ![]() French chooses Dublin Castle as the headquarters for her Dublin Murder Squad. It’s a handy gimmick, sure, but it’s also created a structure that’s allowed French to explore, in increasingly nuanced ways, the city she calls home.īut history is a comforting weight as well as an oppressive one. ![]() Each successive novel has centered on a detective introduced in a previous novel. Warshawski series-but French’s series explores Dublin with remarkable scope and dexterity. Seeing a city unfold over time through the eyes of a detective is, of course, one of the great pleasures of crime fiction-think of Los Angeles in Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch series or Chicago in Sara Paretsky’s V.I. The Secret Place is the latest installment in French’s Dublin Murder Squad series, a masterful set of five detective novels that constructs a deeply observed portrait of modern Dublin. But their longing for what that storybook view represents-home, family, belonging-fuels a dense tangle of friendships and rivalries that the novel’s protagonist, Detective Stephen Moran, has to unravel to solve the mystery of a murdered teen boy. ![]() Kilda’s, a private school in a leafy Dublin suburb. The city seems far away to these girls, whose lives are largely confined to the grounds of St. ![]()
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