With “The Searcher” and now “The Hunter,” Tana French is taking the elements of crime novels and showing us how the stories unfurl from the perspectives not of the investigators, but those affected…
I was about a third of the way through Tana French’s latest novel “The Hunter” when I had the sense that I was reading a book by a modern master.
The Dublin Murder Squad novels are top-notch crime novels of dead bodies and dedicated professional sleuths following the trail toward justice . French has always excelled at atmosphere, the way the landscape shapes the people and vice versa, giving her more straightforward genre work significant depth.
“The Searcher” is the story of Cal Hooper, an ex-Chicago cop who has decamped to the rural town of Ardnakelty, Ireland, and moved into a house on the mountain intending to keep to himself, having had enough of humanity. Pretty soon, though, he gets wrapped up with young Theresa, who goes by Trey, and wants to know what happened to her missing brother Brandon. Cal has been mentoring Trey on carpentry, and Trey has turned from feral to semi-civilized.
Johnny comes with a Mr. Rushborough from London in tow, supposedly a distant cousin of some of the townsfolk, and whose grandmother once told him of bounties of gold embedded in the Ardnakelty hills. It’s clear some kind of scam is involved, but we don’t know what. Trey wants her father gone before he can mess up the lives of her mother and younger siblings. Cal wants to protect Trey, who has started to show significant signs of promise.
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