[amazon_link id=”0670023655″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]I’ve been looking forward to reading Tana French’s “Broken Harbor”, so am pretty excited to be able to offer this book as a giveaway to my readers (courtesy publisher Viking Books)! French is a master of atmospheric mystery and suspense, and author of books like Faithful Place and The Likeness. Here is a little about her new book :

BROKEN HARBOR opens with Scorcher and his newly assigned rookie partner, Richie Curran, being called to a gruesome triple homicide of the Spain family in Brianstown, a seaside town outside of Dublin , locally known as Broken Harbor .

At the crime scene the father, Pat, is found fatally stabbed, the mother, Jenny, is barely alive, and the two young children, Emma and Jack, have been smothered to death. Early investigation points directly to the suspect and voyeur, Conor Brennan, who is obsessed with Jenny and has been stalking her. As is always true in Tana French novels, the most obvious suspect isn’t necessarily the culprit.

Tana French is a master of intricate relationships and has a true gift in making unlikeable characters, like Scorcher— an over-confident, unimaginative, and by-the-book detective—appear sympathetic. She integrates Scorcher’s own broken past and present turmoil into the narrative. His attempts to come to grips with his mother’s suicide, save his mentally unstable younger sister as she spirals out of control, and face his childhood memories of Broken Harbor form a window into his flawed humanity.. However, it’s Scorcher’s own past, prejudices and family that influence how he investigates the Spain murders and reveals the culprit.

BROKEN HARBOR is story of how the dreams of a better life can collapse, of how a modern family can fall prey to the most modern of curses, and how one man – the ideal detective – can fall to pieces.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tana French is the author of three bestselling novels, including the award-winning In the Woods. She has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards for Best First Novel and the IVCA Clarion Award for Best Fiction, and has twice been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Best Mystery/Thriller. She lives in Dublin with her husband and daughter.

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