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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Recorded Books. (January 1, 2010)
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1449830900
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Tana French is the author of In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbor, The Secret Place, and The Trespasser. Her books have won awards including the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards, the Los Angeles Times Award for Best Mystery/Thriller, and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction. She lives in Dublin with her family.

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R. Calmaine

Absorbing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 3, 2023

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It seems that Irish novels are as dark as Swedish novels. Neither have heroes you want to identify with but both snare you with convoluted angst that pulls you onward and grabs your imagination. Once you get started you’re hooked until the end. It’s not comfortable but it’s mesmerizing .

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WHAT is this book about?

Frank Mackey (who was introduced in The Likeness) is an undercover cop who doesn't always play by the rules and cut ties with his family when he left home more than two decades ago. In the prologue, we're with 19-year-old Frank as he waits for his love, Rosie Daly, to meet him in the wee hours of the morning on their street called Faithful Place. They plan to run away to England and make a new life for themselves--far away from their dysfunctional families and the spiral of poverty and "small" lives that tend to entrap residents of the Place. But Rosie never shows, and Frank has always believed that she left without him. Now, 22 years later, Rosie's suitcase (along with her ferry tickets to England) show up in an abandoned house on Faithful Place. When his sister Jackie tells Frank the news, he reluctantly returns home. The discovery of the suitcase shakes the foundations of Frank's entire life: What if Rosie didn't leave him behind? What if she never left at all? This time, Frank won't be able to escape Faithful Place as long-buried secrets begin to surface and bind Frank to the place he fought to escape his whole life.

WHO do we meet?

Frank Mackey, the narrator of the book. The foundation of Frank's entire life is shifting under him as he's forced to confront the past and the way of life he hoped to leave behind forever. His pain and discomfort at having to face his family again is agonizing, and he must call on all of his skills as an undercover cop to figure out what happened to Rosie all those years ago.
The members of the Mackey family that Frank left behind, including: his sister Jackie, the only family member that Frank has stayed in touch with; Shay, the oldest brother who harbors resentment that his younger siblings got a better life while he and the eldest sister Carmel bore the brunt of their parent's cruelty; and Kevin, the youngest brother, who has lived a sheltered existence thanks to the protection of his older siblings. The matriarch of the family, Ma, is viewed by her children as a nag and a manipulator, but she's put up for years with her abusive, alcoholic, chronically unemployed husband, Da.
Frank's 9-year-old daughter Holly, who is growing up faster than Frank would like and, despite Frank's best efforts, seems to have some Mackey blood in her.
Olivia, Frank's ex-wife, who always sensed Frank was waiting for "the one who got away" but tried to love him anyway. Their shared love and concern for Holly keep them tied to each other, despite Olivia having a few secrets of her own.

WHEN and WHERE does the book take place?

The events of the book take place in 2007, primarily in Frank's old neighborhood in Dublin called The Liberties, which Frank describes like this.

The Liberties got their name, hundreds of years ago, because they went their own way and made their own rules. The rules in my road went like this: no matter how skint you are, if you go to the pub then you stand your round; if your mate gets into a fight, you stick around to drag him off as soon as you see blood, so no one loses face; you leave the heroin to them down in the flats; even if you're an anarchist punk rocker this month, you go to Mass on Sunday; and no matter what, you never, ever squeal on anyone.

Frank also flashes back to the past, primarily 1985 when he and Rosie were together and making their plans for escape.

WHY should you read this book?

Tana French is a master of weaving complex, psychologically suspenseful stories that put you fully into the mind and environment of the narrator. Considering that French always gives her protagonists a complex mystery to solve, tensions always run high and I've read all her books with a feeling of doom and dread hanging over me. Yet I always find something to love about her characters and some sort of humor. In this book, I found Frank--despite his often morally dubious methods--to be a stand-up guy. In some ways, he reminded me Mikael Blomquist in the Steig Larrson books. In addition, the charm of the Irish way of talking and the vivid portrait of life on Faithful Place creates a richly drawn world that I felt like I was visiting whenever I read the book. The bottom line is that Tana French writes intelligent, character-driven mysteries that come alive in ways that affect your mind and soul. She hasn't written a bad book yet, and I'd list her as one of my favorite authors. My only complaint is that she isn't more prolific!

Note: Now that I've read all three Tana French novels, I'm anxiously awaiting her next one, which is due in 2012. Because each of her books focus on a character that appeared in previous books, I was trying to guess who might be featured in her next novel. My money was on the young detective Stephen (who Frank manipulates and mentors in this book), but then I found this interview, which reveals that Scorcher Kennedy will be the next narrator. Although this threw me for a loop as I wasn't exactly drawn to Scorcher in this book, I trust Tana French implicitly, and I'll be buying her book the second it comes out.

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Marlene Homer

FAITHFUL PLACE

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 5, 2011

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Titles by Tana French are: (1) In the Woods ,
(2) The Likeness: A Novel , and (3) Faithful Place: A Novel . Start at the beginning and absorb the amazing prose style you will not soon
forget.

The publisher's blurb sets the scene:

"Back in 1985 Frank Mackey was nineteen, growing up poor in Dublin's
innter city, crammed into a small flat with his family on Faithful Place. But his
sights were set on more. He and Rosie Daly were going to run away to London, get married,
get good jobs, break away from poverty and their old lives. But the night they were
supposed to leave,Rosie didn't show. Frank assumed that she dumped him and never went
home again. Neither did Rosie. Now, twenty-two years later, Rosie's suitcase shows up
in a derelict house on Faithful Place. . . ."

Frank Mackey narrates the tale. He is back home. working the Undercover
Squad, searching for answers in the Cold Case of his sweet Rosie Daly.

French's prose style is humorous: (1)Sketch of Mackey's ex, Olivia:
"Olivia, and I say this hand on heart with the proper balance of smugness and regret,
is a stunner: tall, with a long elegant face, plenty of soft ashe-blond hair and the
kind of discreet curves you don't notice at first and then can't stop noticing. That
evening she was smoothed into an expensive black dress and delicate tights and her
grandmother's diamond necklace that only comes out on big occasions, and the Pope
himself would have whipped off his skullcap to mop his brow. Me, being a less classy
guy than the Pope, I wolf whistled" {Page 13) (2)Sketchof Mackey's "cop school"
acquaintance, Scorcher Kennedy: "One of the many differences between Murder and
Undercover is our attitudes to subtlety. Undercovers are even better at it than you
think, and when we feel like a giggle we do love watching the Murder Boys loving their
entrances. These two swung around the corner in an unmarked silver BMW that didn't
need markings, braked hard, left the car at a dramatic angle, slammed their doors in
sync - they had probably been practicing - and swaggered off towards Number 16 with the
music from HAWAII FIVE-O blasting through their heads in full surround-sound. One of
them was a ferret- faced blond kid, still perfecting the walk and trying hard to keep
up, the other one was my age, with a shiny leather brief case swinging from one hand,
and he wore his swagger like it was part of his El Snazzo suit. The cavalry had
arrived, and it was Scorcher Kennedy." {Page 149}.

French's prose style is poetic: (1)"A Sunday morning in Advent, cold,
with a gray-white sky and breath hanging in the air like fog." {Page 91} and
(2)"The clouds had moved in lower over the rooftops, and the light had changed, turned
a bruised, dangerous purplish-white." {Page 143}.

French's prose style is heart-warming: " 'Here, yous,' two dark-haired,
round-eyed little girls were sprawled on the front-room floor - 'Go on upstairs and play
in your room, give me some peace while I talk to this fella here. Go on!' She shooed
the girls out with her hands.
'They're the image of you,' I said,nodding after them.
'They're a pair of little wagons, so they are. They've worn me out.
I'm not joking you. My ma says its my comeuppance, for all the times I put the
heart crossways in her when I was a young one.' She whipped half-dressed dolls
and sweet wrappers and broken crayons off the sofa." {Pages 104-105}.

French's prose style is heart-wrenching: "Dying had caved his face in
under the cheekbones and around the mouth; he looked forty years older than he would
ever be. THe upturned side of his face was ice white; the lower side, where the
blood had settled, was mottled purple. There was a crusty thread of blood coming
from his nose, and where his jaw had dropped I could see that his front teeth were
broken. His hair was limp and dark with rain. One eyelid drooped a little over a
cloudy eye, like a sly stupid wink. It was like I had been shoved under an enormous
battering waterfall, like the force of it was ripping my breath away." {Page 277}.

French's prose style is also too-often vulgar, too-often profance.
Yes, it is authentic, but, I feel the vulgarity and profanity is over done and
weakens the amazing prose style of Tana French. Thank you.

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Sheila Preston Comerford

Tana French does it again

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Tana French goes deeper into the rich and sometimes sad history of Dublin’s class differences. The tale she spins is many layered and beautifully written. She never disappoints and leaves me wanting more from the Dublin Murder Squad.

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Amy K

Solid novel from Tana French

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 17, 2017

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Tana French is back on form with Faithful Place. The main character is Frank Mackey, the undercover cop introduced in The Likeness (DMS 2) and he's involved in a cold case on his old home turf. The premise, plot, pacing and prose were all great. But I did have two issues with this book.

First, I worked out who was the killer almost as soon as they were introduced as a character. It didn't spoil the book, but it just made me hyper aware of them in each scene. Which in turn reinforced my impression.

Second, and this is a deeper point about Tana's writing style. The three Dublin Murder Squad books so far have all been from a different point of view character, but Tana French's narrative style - her prose and descriptions - don't vary much from character to character. Now, don't get me wrong I LIKE her style, but I find it hard to suspend my disbelief the three very different characters (Young man sent to boarding school in England, ballsy woman, older guy from the Liberties) would all three of them undertake soliloquies on the nature of summer light or the fragile quality of a snowflake - for example. After three books, it is easy to spot the places where the author is on the page as opposed to the characters themselves. Which is a shame, because she does draw excellent characters.

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Wonderwoman

Brilliant book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 29, 2020

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I don’t think of Tana French as a crime writer, in the same way as I don’t regard John Le Carre’s novels as spy fiction. The quality of their writing transcends their respective genres. This is the third book in French’s “Dublin Murder Squad” series, novels that are loosely connected with some overlapping characters but absolutely work as stand alone books, and I think it is the best of those I have read so far. The plot revolves around a 20 year old cold case, but the book is about much more than that - it is about familial ties, whether you can ever escape your past, and the intense power of your first love. The writing is superb, some of the descriptions so perfect I re read them several times just for the pleasure of it. The past and the present are seamlessly interwoven throughout the book. In the central character Frank Mackie, French has created a charismatic but flawed personality around whom the plot revolves. Highly recommended.

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Stephen Clynes

The accent this time is on family life.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 30, 2017

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In the last Dublin Murder Squad book, Detective Cassie Maddox is working for Detective Frank Mackey of the Undercover Squad. This third book in the series is Frank’s tale. Although Frank is NOT on the Dublin Murder Squad, he does know 2 of the victims and becomes involved in the case.

I loved Faithful Place just as much as I loved the first 2 novels in the series. Yet again it is written in the first person and Tana develops her brand. Although each book is written from the point of view of a different detective each time, you still get the same strong feeling that you are part of the scene and are in the loop.

Yet again this book can be read as a stand-alone. The accent this time is on family life. Although the 2 murders are solved, it is not by regular police work but by Frank working friends and family. I particularly liked the dialogue running through this novel. It is written with a strong Dublin accent and Frank’s mother is the big surprise. Simply put, every time I read her spoken words, all I could think of was Brendan O’Carroll acting the role of Agnes Brown in the extremely popular BBC sitcom Mrs. Brown’s Boys.

Faithful Place moves away from regular murder and police thrillers. This is centered around the dynamics of family life and the meaning of home. There was plenty of back story and Frank’s character was fully developed. Although the tale runs back and forth with Frank’s teenage years 22 years ago, it was told skillfully and this time shifting did not annoy me, it simply added depth to this novel. I really enjoyed reading this book and it gets the top score of 5 stars from me.

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Ronni Lamont

Great who dun it with an Irish accent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 21, 2019

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I read this after reading the first two books in the series. With the first two, the characters move through the story arc, with a different person centre stage. This book is the story of the 'also there' character in book 2, but the original detectives are not featured, so you could read this as a stand alone.
These are not rapid page turner detactive stories, there is excellent characterisation, and I like to read them more slowly, to give time to refelct and ponder over what's going on. And they are flawed people, real people, which makes their stories all the more interesting.

You certainly could read these on the beach or the aeroplane, but read them now, before the summer blockbusters take over!

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Joe Bathelt

Intelligent crime drama in the rough end of Dublin

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 21, 2020

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Family, murder, and the entrapment of responsibilities are the core ingredients of this novel that manages to escape the constraints of the genre to explore fundamental questions of morality. I really enjoyed reading the previous book in the Dublin Murder Squad series but was blown away by this one. The characters jumpy off the pages and some of the dialogue is just hilarious. The author also had a knack to capture moments that define the feeling of youth and made me feel deeply for the main character. I especially liked how this plays out as the book progresses. This is a perfect read for anyone looking for an intelligent and well-written crime drama.

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