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This started as a five-star read for me. I loved the main characters's voice and it was punchy and dynamic. Then the author introduced the psycho sister and I kept expecting there to be a point to why she was even in the book. I read that the writer loves Donna Tarrt and think maybe she wanted to write a sort of relationship story? It just didn't work, bloating out the story with needless conversations (that can never be plain dialogue as we get endless descriptions before each person utters a word of facial expressions, thoughts, limb positions, looks being thrown this way and that). In all,this book needed to be edited in half. It is neither one thing or another.It doesn't have any feeling of suspense and soon you begin to dislike all the characters too. I loved the main character at the beginning of the book and by the end disliked him intensely.
I thought I was going to be a huge Tana French fan at the beginning of the book but now have no desire to read more of her books. Too drawn out. She needs a better editor.


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Broken Harbor A Novel Dublin Murder Squad Tana French Books Reviews

Tana French's "Broken Harbor" begins as a typical police procedural. As usual, it features the Dublin Murder Squad. (There are now six novels in the series.) Detectives "Scorcher" Kennedy and rookie partner Richie Curran investigate a gruesome murder in a house in a once-promising suburban development that has fallen victim to recession (it's set in the late 0s, as the "Celtic Tiger" was declawed by recession). Scorcher knows the area, now known as Brianstown, as Broken Harbor. A father and his two children have been killed; his wife has been severely injured. The preliminary investigation turns up a series of holes in the shoddily built structure, and there are more baby monitors that would seem necessary.

The detectives go through the routine (Scorcher tells the tale in the first person) and turn up a promising suspect. And than the book spirals into the darkness. The descent begins when Richie and Scorcher have different ideas as to who might be guilty.

In addition Scorcher has a bipolar younger sister, Dina. And she triggers Kennedy's and the tale's, descent, as during the course of the book we learn that Scorcher and Dina have a history there. Dina tells Scorcher he never should have taken the case, and as we see, he probably shouldn't have.

The book's showpiece is a chapter-long confession sequence that is not for the weak of heart, or stomach. It's a horror show.

NOTES AND ASIDES Do I really have to say more? If you don't like unpleasant books and characters, stay well away. If you like brilliantly conceived and written novels, order it. And especially keep in mind this is not a routine mystery. Well not just, anyhow.
There are two themes to this novel how a family can disintegrate and the solution of a grisly murder mystery.
In the first part, we have Patrick and Jenny Spain, along with their two children, striking out to establish the family in a new housing development near Broken Harbor. Jenny is an obsessive-compulsive person who wants everything in their new home to be picture perfect. Patrick prides himself on being the family breadwinner and overall handyman who will provide a tip-top home for his wife and children. Things start to go bad when Patrick loses his job. They get even worse when a real or imaginary animal, like a mink or stoat, gets into the house’s structure and Patrick takes extraordinary measures to trap said creature.
The second part is the murder of Patrick, his two children, and a critical attack on Jenny that sends her to the hospital’s intensive care unit. This is when ace detective Michael “Scorcher” Kennedy picks up the case along with his rookie partner, Richie Curran. (We’ve seen Scorcher in another Tana French novel when Frank Mackey, an undercover detective, outperforms Kennedy on a different case.)
Scorcher and Richie apprehend a fellow named Conor who’s been watching the Spain’s house through binoculars. Turns out Conor is a longtime pal of Patrick and Jenny and still carries a crush for her. When Conor is quite willing to sign a confession for the murders, Kennedy thinks the case is in the bag but Richie has doubts. Complicating Scorcher’s work are distractions caused by the bizarre actions of his sister, Dina, and his own tragic memories of Broken Harbor where he lost his mother.
Both parts of this novel eventually come together near the ending. It’s an enjoyable reading experience but I’d call the exercise more of a detailed character study rather than a riveting detective mystery.
I've read two other of her books, and loved them, but this one is by far the best. I'm American, and I've loved her books because they describe so well the Irish culture/society/lifestyle of the characters and the location of the story. Very interesting plot, for a detective novel, and I haven't yet (I'm half way through it) figured out who did it. The description of what had been going on in the victims' home is definitely creepy. Her main characters are interesting, and the descriptions of the locale and the action have really kept me interested. I have had the book in the back of my mind all day, as I was doing other things. I can hardly wait to get back to the book this evening at bedtime.
This started as a five-star read for me. I loved the main characters's voice and it was punchy and dynamic. Then the author introduced the psycho sister and I kept expecting there to be a point to why she was even in the book. I read that the writer loves Donna Tarrt and think maybe she wanted to write a sort of relationship story? It just didn't work, bloating out the story with needless conversations (that can never be plain dialogue as we get endless descriptions before each person utters a word of facial expressions, thoughts, limb positions, looks being thrown this way and that). In all,this book needed to be edited in half. It is neither one thing or another.It doesn't have any feeling of suspense and soon you begin to dislike all the characters too. I loved the main character at the beginning of the book and by the end disliked him intensely.
I thought I was going to be a huge Tana French fan at the beginning of the book but now have no desire to read more of her books. Too drawn out. She needs a better editor.