Then, twenty-two years later, Rosie’s suitcase shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place, and Frank is going home whether he likes it or not. Everyone thought she had gone to England on her own and was over there living a shiny new life. Frank took it for granted that she’d dumped him-probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He and Rosie Daly were all ready to run away to London together, get married, get good jobs, break away from factory work and poverty and their old lives.īut on the winter night when they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn’t show. I was enthralled.īack in 1985, Frank Mackey was nineteen, growing up poor in Dublin’s inner city, and living crammed into a small flat with his family on Faithful Place. It took me just over four days to read it. Our main character in this story is Frank Mackey – he was introduced in previous book ( The Likeness) as that protagonist’s former boss who has now spun off his own story, less mystical than the two preceding stories in the series, but no less soul-wrenching. This is the third of the Dublin Murder Squad books by Tana French (though it concerns a man on the Undercovers, as opposed to Murder) – a series of books that builds one from the other, not on events, but rather on characters. “In my neighborhood, gossip is a competitive sport that’s been raised to Olympic standard, and I never diss gossip I revere it with all my heart.”
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