BOOK CLUB
CAMBRIDGE EDI T ION
AS THE DARKER NIGHTS DRAW IN, IT’S EVEN MORE IMPORTANT TO HAVE A CRACKING BOOK ON THE GO TO KEEP YOU COMPANY – SO WE’VE ROUNDED UP A HANDFUL OF RECENT RELEASES TO ADD TO YOUR #TOREAD PILE
WORDS BY CHARLOTTE GRIFFITHS
THE SEARCHER (OUT 5 NOV)
fitting for its stunning setting in the Irish countryside – yet all this beauty and hope is masterfully dotted by French with the occasional, unsettling prickle of doubt and uncertainty, as if you’ve seen something sinister scuttle across the edge of your vision, and shake your head to brush it off. But, as Hooper ends up wondering, what is real anyway – and did he really want a quiet life? This book challenges conventions and reveals ill- meant truths, well-meaning lies: friends who turn out to be less than promised and strangers who become closer than family – adding up to make this, like all books from French, into an absolutely perfect winter read.
BY TANA FRENCH Revealing too much about this fantastic new work from Tana French – arguably one of our greatest living mystery writers – will give away the thrill of staring, open- mouthed, as its languid, drawn-out, razor- sharp plot unravels, exquisitely. Suffice to say that protagonist Cal Hooper, newly retired from the Chicago PD, recovering from a grim divorce and hoping for a quiet life renovating a project house in a remote Irish village, does not quite get what he hopes for. The characters he encounters are truly believable, and the slow, almost meditative pace of the beginning of the novel is perfectly
Right If you fancy a mystery to cosy up with this winter, why not try The Searcher by Tana French? Set in the Irish countryside, it tells the story of a retired police officer from Chicago trying to find a missing person
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