#tana french books

[sophielovesbooks]

One thing about me (and this will make a lot of people very angry) is that if only six books could survive in the whole entire world, out of all the books that currently exist, and I was given the enormous responsibility to wisely choose which six works should be preserved while all others are destroyed...

I would choose the six Dublin Murder Squad books by Tana French.

#there i said it #for purely selfish reasons obvs #but like i would want them to survive so badly?? #tana french #dublin murder squad #dms #tana french books #in the woods #the likeness #faithful place #broken harbour #the secret place #the trespasser

[oldshrewsburyian]

If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.

Broken Harbor, Tana French

#my detection obsession #book quotes #tana french #dublin murder squad #queue

[serenity-the-firefly]

The thing about the likeness is that yes it does have one of the most convoluted and far-fetched conceits laboriously made “plausible” known to man, but tana french manages to do it in such a way that i didn’t even notice the first time round? And then it leads to such an interesting story that i simply don’t care. who cares if this setup is realistic i just wanna hear more about cassie’s imperfect sense of the boundaries between self and not-self!!

#probably one of my favorite books tbh #the likeness #dublin murder squad #i think one of the reason i like tana french so much is that her books always feature one of my favorite character types: #‘Guy who is clearly deranged but gives a really good monologue that tbh makes some points’ #thoughts

[ebbarights]

the thing is that faithful place is just like if the roys were poor and irish instead of rich and american

#shay and frank = kendall and shiv #there is no roman sadly but the siblings do draw blood and there's murder and stuff #also runs in the family fits that book even better than it does succession #tana french #succession #leog

[marnz]

SPEAKING of my sweater i am going to try german short rows for the first time ever today to do some shaping so it fits properly because when i went to the local yarn store to buy the yarn for the sweater, the owner had actually made this exact same sweater and told me she didn't do the short rows (it's optional in the pattern) and she hates how it looks and fits due to the lack of short rows, so please god do the short rows.

here goes nothing!

#currently #knitting #me squinting at the pattern while the narrator of this tana french book calmly describes the most fucked up mystery: ah yes. perfection. #worst part of listening to an audio book while knitting is pausing every 5 minutes to count lol #mountain mist sweater

[allieinarden]

I miss the Dublin Murder Squad series. :(

#checked hopefully to see if Tana French had another book coming and she does but it’s a sequel to The Searcher which I still have to read #I appreciate that she’s writing what she wants but MAN there was nothing like living in some messed-up Irish detective’s head for 450 pages #I’m supposed to slake my character-driven UK murder investigation thirst on Robert Galbraith? #Cormoran Strike is cool but he never says stuff like ‘grief anonymizes as powerfully as a Greek tragedy mask’ because he’s British

[rogerclarkaudiobooks]

"The Hunter: A Novel"

Author: Tana French Narrator: Roger Clark Book Series: "Cal Hooper", Book #2 Audiobook Release Date: March 05, 2024 Length: 16 hours, 24 minutes

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Overview:

"Hailed as the queen of Irish crime fiction, French spins a taut tale of retribution, sacrifice, and family." —TIME From the New York Times bestselling author of The Searcher and “one of the greatest crime novelists writing today” (Vox), a spellbinding new novel set in the Irish countryside. It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He’s found it, more or less: he’s built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he’s gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places. But then Trey’s long-absent father reappears, bringing along an English millionaire and a scheme to find gold in the townland, and suddenly everything the three of them have been building is under threat. Cal and Lena are both ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey, but Trey doesn’t want protecting. What she wants is revenge. From the writer who is “in a class by herself,” (The New York Times), a nuanced, atmospheric tale that explores what we’ll do for our loved ones, what we’ll do for revenge, and what we sacrifice when the two collide. ©2024 Tana French (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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#roger clark #roger's audiobooks #roger clark audiobooks #tana french #Book: The Hunter #Cal Hooper Series

[therogerclarkfanclub]

Coming in March 2024

@teashadephoenix 😉

#roger clark #tana french #Book: the searcher #Book: The Hunter #audiobooks #roger clark audiobooks

[brightbeautifulthings]

The Trespasser by Tana French

"You can knock down a genuine belief, if you load up with enough facts that contradict it; but a belief that's built on nothing except who the person wants to be, nothing can crumble that."

Year Read: 2023

Rating: 5/5

About: There are mild spoilers ahead for The Secret Place. Making Murder Squad isn't like Conway thought it would be, and the only detective not hell bent on making her life miserable is her partner, Moran. Their new case looks like a neat and tidy lovers’ quarrel, but something about Aislinn Murray's death refuses to stay tidy. Conway is sure she's seen her somewhere before, the gaffer has an unusual interest in their progress, and other detectives are pressuring them to arrest the boyfriend quick. Are they still trying to find a way to force her off the squad, or is something more sinister at work? Trigger warnings: death, parent death, abandonment, guns, stalking, harassment, gaslighting.

Thoughts: I put this off because I loved the Dublin Murder Squad series so much that I didn't want it to be over, but now that I've read it, I can see why French ended it here. It's an exquisite end to a much-loved series, and it's good to leave it on a high note. I already knew I was going to like being in Conway's perspective after meeting her in The Secret Place, and this doesn't disappoint. She's tough and no-nonsense, but like all of French's characters, she's not without her flaws. I adore her partnership with Moran and the way that, despite being total opposites in personality, they work together and know each other so well.

There are so many strengths to this series, and this novel plays to them all. French's writing is gorgeous and evocative, and the characters are breathtakingly well-drawn. There's an excellent theme running through this book about the stories we tell ourselves and how dangerous they can be when they don't match up with reality. The murders are often quite simple, and I like that they're kept within the realm of possibility. By the end, the gut-punch isn't in some nonsensical plot twist but in the devastating inevitability. The characters being who and what they are, it could only have gone one way, and it's all the more tragic and awful for that. It's peak crime fiction, and while I'm sorry to reach the end, I know I'll revisit all of these when I start to miss them.

#book review #tana french #the trespasser #dublin murder squad #crime fiction #mystery #thriller #5/5 #rating: 5/5 #2023

[sophielovesbooks]

Ah, fuck it, I'm rereading a Tana French book

#tana french #dublin murder squad #i hope this is a mood for somebody else too haha #i normally don't really reread books #but i just feel like i need it idk

[oldshrewsburyian]

You can knock down a genuine belief, if you load up with enough facts that contradict it; but a belief that's built on nothing except who the person wants to be, nothing can crumble that.

The Trespasser, Tana French

#the trespasser #tana french #my detection obsession #book quotes #dublin murder squad #so i binge-read the final volumes in the series over the weekend

[thesensethatyouchoose]

It was some time for some lighter reading after the last few.

#books #book #litblr #bookblr #booklr #tana french #mystery novel #plants

[iamthekarmapolice]

reading tana french’s the likeness which is a murder mystery involving this group of friends who own a house together and like. i know the point of the book is that its never going to be as perfect and idyllic as it looks, but i dont care lmao. mutuals lets buy an old rundown house together somewhere nice and spend all our time fixing it up and painting the walls whatever colour we want, and scraping together enough money to buy food and drink and pay the bills and not worry about the rest of it and take care of each other and love each other and grow old together

#ive read a lot of fiction about all kinds of failed utopias but this one has really got to me #because unlike a lot of them it doesnt require any supernatural or sci-fi logistics to accomplish #all it needs is a few friends and a house like why is this so hard!!!!! these are all things within our grasp!!!! #and yeah i know i sound like the guy in the book whose idea it was and who becomes a shell of himself because it didnt work out #its the tragedy of it all!!!! the failed hopes!!! the love thats still there!!!! the mourning of the life that can never be!!!!!!!! #tana french i hate you!!!!

[scentedsstuff]

The Secret Place

by Tana French

Rating: 2/5 ⭐️

Last night, I finished 'The Secret Place' by Tana French. I had been meaning to read something else centered on mysteries and crime solving after finishing 'The Red Palace,' so I figured Tana French was the way to go (And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie is there but I'll make my way to it eventually).

Synopsis had me intrigued, the first couple of chapters were fine but the characters..........

I loved Detective Conway, I was rooting for her. Her no-bs attitude and the dynamic she had with Detective Moran was enjoyable but anyone else..........no. I ended up liking and looking forward to the detectives chapters a lot more than I did reading about the girls and their backstories. Listen, I'm not 16 but I don't recall using so many 'OMGs' in between sentences, and sometimes the language felt a little over the top, but my experience dosen't speak for everyone else's so I'll leave it at that.

This is my blog so I'm just going to be upfront with my thoughts but some of the stuff mentioned.........completely cringe for me. The whole Selena and Chris thing, fine by me, an interesting part of the story, but once Moran sees the video, man starts going on and on AND ON about how these two kids 'found the real thing' and 'what they had was special or deep' any and every chance he gets. He mentions how Conway ignored the sentimental moment between Selena and Chris when forming thoughts and theories and I've never loved her more because SAME. I was seriously considering to DNF the book at that point but I was already 300 and something pages in and I figured why not just complete the whole thing.

The reveal at the end was fine but it couldn't save the book for me. As for the girls (the main 4).......didn't like them, didn't care what happened to them or their little friendship circle, by the end the only friendship I cared for was the one forming between Detective Conway and Detective Moran, so that's that.

I'm still going to check out another Tana French book, 'The Likeness' to be specific, because I like the premise, so hopefully that turns out better.

#another rant nobody asked for but fuck it #i waste 2 days on this book #so i shall speak about it #the secret place #tana french #the likeness #book review

[marnz]

library card wrapped: oh my god you listened to six Tana French books this year, and you’re not even done!

#currently #anyway. I must finish this book & read witch elm and then I will know peace #Tana French #storygraph tells me very confidently that I am gay and I say: wow you’re right

[liesmyth]

for the books meme: 4 and 16!

4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

TANA FRENCH! TANA FRENCH! I loooved her, I can't believe that I went from vaguely knowing of Dublin Murder Squad as a yuletide fandom with a cool name to being In My Feelings about all of her tragic characters. I really can't recommend her enough. Toby WitchElm and the Mackey family drama live in my head rent free

Also: Balli Kaur Jaswal! I read both Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows & The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters and they went straight into my all-time favourites. They have so much going on and made me emotional and hopeful and teary (!!!) but also they're so fucking funny.

Romance corner! Lauren Ho. I DEVOURED both Last Tang Standing & Lucie Yi Is Not A Romantic, which both live in the fuzzy intersection between "het romance" and "women's fiction" and they're both about headstrong career women in their 30s with overbearing families and frankly hilarious drama and tbh I have never really swooned over a male het romance hero until I got to her books. They're lovely, really made me laugh, and both have fantastic audiobook versions.

16. What is the most over-hyped book you read this year?

Babel by RF Kuang. The Atlas Six though that was more booktok hype

[end of year book asks!]

#ask #oflights #i have read so much tana french from february to june that i ran out of tana french to read #so i just. reread faithful place like. a lot #except for the searcher but i'm saving that for when i need a REALLY good book #book talk