Frank stands in his parents' living room during a wake and realises the murderer is present, someone in the room, and it starts to feel "underlit and threatening, shadows piled up too thick in the corners", as the booze continues to flow and the mourners keep on singing.
Suddenly, everything Frank has told himself over the years is thrown into doubt.ĭarkness, tragedy and danger creep and crawl through this novel, not on a grand scale but on a chillingly believable, everyday one. Rosie's suitcase has been found, and their tickets to London – that she'd never have left behind – are still in it. Twenty years later, he gets a phone call from his youngest sister Jackie, the only one of his four siblings he still speaks to. Now everything he thought he knew is turned upside down: did Rosie really leave that night, or did someone stop her before she could? French, who briefly introduced Mackey in The Likeness, is adept at seamlessly blending suspenseful whodunit elements with Frank's familial demons.Desperate to escape from his alcoholic, abusive father and manipulative mother, he leaves anyway. When his younger sister, Jackie, calls to tell him that someone found Rosie's suitcase hidden in an abandoned house, Frank reluctantly returns. For 22 years, Frank, who becomes an undercover cop, stays away from Faithful Place, his childhood Dublin neighborhood. But when Rosie doesn't meet Frank the night they're meant to leave and he finds a note, Frank assumes she's left him behind. In 1985, 19-yearold Frank Mackey and his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, made secret plans to elope to England and start a new life together far away from their families, particularly the hard-drinking Mackeys. French's emotionally searing third novel of the Dublin murder squad (after The Likeness) shows the Irish author getting better with each book.
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