![]() ![]() Now everything he thought he knew is turned upside down: did Rosie really leave that night, or did someone stop her before she could? French, who briefly introduced Mackey in The Likeness, is adept at seamlessly blending suspenseful whodunit elements with Frank's familial demons. When his younger sister, Jackie, calls to tell him that someone found Rosie's suitcase hidden in an abandoned house, Frank reluctantly returns. ![]() It’s a ceaseless, riotous cascade of Irish yammering, from the operatic scoldings of Frank’s ma to the chatter of his four siblings as they squeeze. For 22 years, Frank, who becomes an undercover cop, stays away from Faithful Place, his childhood Dublin neighborhood. There’s nothing spooky in Faithful Place. But when Rosie doesn't meet Frank the night they're meant to leave and he finds a note, Frank assumes she's left him behind. ![]() In 1985, 19-yearold Frank Mackey and his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, made secret plans to elope to England and start a new life together far away from their families, particularly the hard-drinking Mackeys. ![]() French's emotionally searing third novel of the Dublin murder squad (after The Likeness) shows the Irish author getting better with each book. ![]()
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