Faithful Place

The third installment in Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad Series lives up to the standard of the previous two. We see another returning character as the narrator in Faithful Place - Detective Frank Mackey.

When Frank was just nineteen years old, he and his girlfriend Rosie planned on running off to England together. They were to meet on Faithful Place one night, bags packed and ready to go, and head off together to live the life of their dreams away from the people on Faithful Place who were stopping them from doing so. But when Frank showed up at the house that night, Rosie was not there. And she never showed. Everyone, Frank included, assumed that she had run away on her own.

Frank went on with his life, but he never forgot about Rosie. Decades later, he is brought back to his old neighborhood and to the family he hadn't spoken to in years because a suitcase is found in one of the houses on Faithful Place - a suitcase believed to have belonged to Rosie. When Rosie's body turns up days later in the house where she and Frank were supposed to meet, Frank dives into the case determined to solve the decades long mystery of what happened to the life he could have lived with Rosie.

In true keeping with Tana French's skilled mystery writing, she delivers another satisfying read with Faithful Place. Stay tuned for a review of the fourth installment, Broken Harbour!