Book description
In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built,
half-inhabited, half-abandoned - two children and their father are dead.
The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given
the case because he is the Murder squad's star detective. At first he
and his rookie partner, Richie, think this is a simple one: Pat Spain
was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, tried to
kill his wife Jenny, and finished off with himself. But there are too
many inexplicable details and the evidence is pointing in two directions
at once. Scorcher's personal life is tugging for his attention. Seeing
the case on the news has sent his sister Dina off the rails again, and
she's resurrecting something that Scorcher thought he had tightly under
control: what happened to their family, one summer at Broken Harbour,
back when they were children. The neat compartments of his life are
breaking down, and the sudden tangle of work and family is putting both
at risk . . . 'I've been enthusiastically telling everyone who will
listen to read Tana French. She is, without a doubt, my favorite new
mystery writer. Her novels are poignant, compelling, beautifully written
and wonderfully atmospheric. Just start reading the first page. You'll
see what I mean.' Harlan Coben, #1
New York Times
bestselling author of STAY CLOSE Tana French grew up in Ireland,
Italy, the United States and Malawi. She trained as an actor at Trinity
College Dublin and has worked mainly in theatre. Her first novel, In the
Woods, was published in 2007; it won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and
Barry awards for Best First Novel and the IVCA Clarion Award for Best
Fiction. In the Woods and her second novel, The Likeness, were both New
York Times bestsellers. She lives in Dublin with her husband and
daughter.
