Faithful Place by Tana French *****

Faithful Place (#3/6 Dublin Murder Squad) byTana French begins when Frank Mackey is summoned home after 22 years. On the night he left, he’d planned to elope with Rosie Daly, but she hadn’t shown up for their rendezvous. Now new evidence suggests that she hadn’t abandoned him as he feared. With his return, he is forced to face his dysfunctional family, along with a reevaluation of his relationship with his ex-wife Olivia and their nine-year-old daughter Holly.

In addition to Frank’s relationship with his ex-wife and child, the book explores the complex interactions among the families stuck in poverty, how they support and compete with each other. Faithful Place is a block of semi-detached houses where the generations live together dependent on each other and each looking for a way out.

The writing is beautiful on a paragraph-by-paragraph level and how the entirety is put together.

The book uses a lot of Dublin (Irish) slang: nixer (informal extra job usually paid in cash), mot (girlfriend), slapper (derogatory for a woman), skanger (derogatory for a young working-class person), slagging (making fun of), wagon (wild girl), and yoke (thingamajig), for a few examples.

My new favorite series for engaging characters set in Dublin.

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