Agent, Darley Anderson, Darley Anderson Literary, TV and Film Agency. Crime fiction fans won’t want to miss this one. Insightful characterizations, even of minor figures, and a devastating reveal help make this a standout. The more Hooper digs, the more he finds that his new community conceals dark secrets. If the homage wasn’t clear from the title, Tana French makes sure throughout The Searcher, her seventh novel and second stand-alone, that there’s no doubt. Despite Hooper’s cynicism (“Anyone could do anything,” he thinks), he agrees to look into the matter, starting with questioning Sheila. Fri 07.00 EST Author of the Dublin Murder Squad series has described her second standalone, The Searcher (Viking, 14.99), as her take on a western, and the lone stranger who rides. Because their mother, Sheila, is convinced Brendan took off on his own, Trey hasn’t gone to the police, though the boy’s certain his brother wouldn’t have done that. Trey fears something bad has happened to his 19-year-old brother, Brendan, who hasn’t been seen in about six months.
6), she’s again produced a book that feels quite different. After six intense books focusing on the Dublin Murder Squad, she wrote The Witch Elm (2018), a stand-alone told from the perspective of a crime victim who turns into a suspect. After three months, his prosaic new life ends when he’s sought out by 12-year-old Trey Reddy, who has learned of Hooper’s former profession. Tana French writes the most complex, atmospheric crime novels around. So he moved to a village in the West of Ireland, “no bigger than the little end of nothing,” where people leave their doors unlocked. After 25 years as a Chicago cop, Cal Hooper, the protagonist of this superb standalone from Edgar winner French ( The Witch Elm), decided he needed a change.
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