5/29/2023 0 Comments Frank mackey tana frenchFaithful Place is wrenching to a degree that detective fiction rarely achieves. French's hypnotic storytelling remains in full force in this novel, despite having shaken off the dreaminess that suffused In the Woods and The Likeness.This is Roddy Doyle territory, an excavation of that particular torture experienced by those who want to break out of a hopeless, working-class world but keep getting sucked back in by the loyalty that is its one redeeming quality. In French's novels, the person looking becomes the abyss. Detective fiction's legions of brooding sleuths have paid lip service to Nietzsche's observation that if you look long enough into the abyss, the abyss starts looking back. As in the previous two novels, Faithful Place has a murderer who will be identified, but in the process of discovering that truth, the detective's own psyche will be dismantled.
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