By: Orla Cracken, known as Orac, is no ordinary techie; she was once a field agent traveling abroad undercover, working for the government. French creates haunting, damaged characters who have been hit hard by some cataclysm...This may sound like a routine police procedural. I think he may be my second favorite character after Rob. Dervla McTiernan. This is, in fact, what good literature does. In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father’s funeral takes place. Stream or download thousands of included titles. All of them come off nails-on-chalkboard-shrill and adolescently snippy. Just too depressing. This is one of the only male narrators that I’ve listened to who can do female voices without being awkward. The narrator does well with the men- he seems to have a good handle on Scorcher himself, however, he does a really poor job with the women. By: For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands - the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves. The storylne was good, though at times a bit repetitive. Being called out to a murder investigation there leads a potential that it will negatively affect his younger sister Dina. Janine Birkett, Narrated by: French creates haunting, damaged characters who have been hit hard by some cataclysm…This may sound like a routine police procedural. On the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family, too. Robert Glenister, By: Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one 40 years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. BUT that said the descriptions and stories are very intriguing. Broken Harbor reads as perfect from afar until you get up close and see the empty homes. "The Secret Place", a board where the girls at St Kilda's School can pin up their secrets anonymously, is normally a mishmash of gossip and covert cruelty, but today someone has used it to reignite the stalled investigation into the murder of handsome, popular Chris Harper. 5 – Broken Harbor. He narrates all inflections and both men and women beautifully. Scorcher has a connection to Broken Harbor, his family used to spend summer holidays there. He never went home again. | 1195 Minutes I particularly enjoy how Tana French hints to her next character focus in the book in previously in the series. Suddenly, Cassie is back undercover, to find out not only who killed this young woman, but, more importantly, who she was. BUT that said the descriptions and stories are very intriguing. I honestly don't have any criticism of this book. Broken Harbor has the trademark French style--snappy dialogue, a driven and haunted narrator, mostly sharp prose peppered with surprising insights into Ireland in particular and human nature in general, plot twists, memorable secondary characters. About Broken Harbor. This was a bit of a slog. But Ms. French undercuts expectations at every turn. Dervla McTiernan, Narrated by: You’ll see what I mean.” —Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling author “Broken Harbor proves anew that [Tana French] is one of the most talented crime writers alive.” —The Washington Post “Ms. Broken Harbor and Broken Ending I've listened to other books from this series and I agree with other reviews that the ends are not always satisfying in these books. What a great installment in the Dublin Murder Squad. As police mysteries go, this was a good story. 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… More about Tana French, “I’ve been enthusiastically telling everyone who will listen to read Tana French. Apr 30, 2013 Ann Cleeves. What really gives Broken Harbor its nerve-rattling force is her exploration of events leading up to the murders, rendered just as vividly as the detectives’ scramble to solve them.” [Entertainment Weekly (A- rating)], “Broken Harbour is a novel, of course, but it's also a headline...it's good to see contemporary literature engaging a crisis that has had such an impact on the lives of so many. There is no driver to be seen, so Vera assumes that the owner has gone to find help. A family of four is found assaulted with one member of the family barely alive. Olivia Dowd, Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen-year-old kid with a dream of escaping his family's cramped flat on Faithful Place and running away to London with his girl, Rosie Daly. By: The victims begin to look less like victims; the case starts to unravel and the lead detective makes compromises that could ruin him.”—The Wall Street Journal “Ms. My least favorite Tana French book. Hilda Fay, Narrated by: When slices of flesh and body parts are discovered in different areas of the country, DI Bliss and his team are tasked with running the operation. and others, Narrated by: But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. He also has a past in this location--Broken Harbor was where his family would camp for two weeks at the end of each summer until the summer his mother walked into the water. It was not a real hard core ”who dun it”, but more of a ’why’. I’ve been binge listening and reading the Dublin Murder series... although, this is the only book I’ve listened to in entirety (not interchanging with library checkout). A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death. While detective Cormac Reilly faces enemies at work and trouble in his personal life, garda Peter Fisher is relocated out of Galway with the threat of prosecution hanging over his head. At first, Scorcher thinks itʼs going to be an easy solve, but too many small things canʼt be explained: the half-dozen baby monitors pointed at holes smashed in the Spainsʼ walls, the files erased from the familyʼs computer, the story Jenny told her sister about a shadowy intruder slipping past the houseʼs locks.

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