Book Review The Searcher

The searcher by tana french is a slow burn of a suspense story.

Book review the searcher. As in that apocryphal myth of the frog in boiling water the novel lulls us readers to lie back and bask in french s. French s the searcher offers vivid poetic prose. So the searcher opens very peacefully or slowly with cal s work on the house acclimation to his new surroundings and lovingly described efforts to restore an old desk.

The other the secret place is after the searcher her least effective book this reflects cal s. The searcher by tana french viking cal hooper a chicago cop whose wife has left him for reasons he does not yet understand tells himself he s done with police work. Cal hooper a retired chicago cop buys a wreck of a.

Cal hooper is an outsider in his rural irish town and before he can be ensnared by a missing person case cal and by extension the reader must get his footing in his new community. The searcher contains a meaningful contemplation of masculinity and gender roles in a small town with the kind of strong female characters that male authors are always writing so poorly. Search the world s most comprehensive index of full text books.

The searcher by tana french is a slow burn of a suspense story as in that apocryphal myth of the frog in boiling water the novel lulls us readers to lie back and bask in french s radiant imagery and language in particular its descriptions of the rough beauty of the west of ireland where the story takes place. The talented bennett fuels her fiction with secrets first in her lauded debut the mothers 2016 and now in the assured and magnetic story of the vignes sisters light skinned women parked on opposite sides of the color line. The searcher is one of only two french novels that isn t narrated in the first person.

The searcher is the second stand novel by the american irish writer after 2018 s the wych elm another book that earned its share of acclaim.