Broken Harbour
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3.7 • 9 Ratings
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned - two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squad's star detective. At first he and his rookie partner, Richie, think this is a simple one: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, tried to kill his wife Jenny, and finished off with himself. But there are too many inexplicable details and the evidence is pointing in two directions at once.
Scorcher's personal life is tugging for his attention. Seeing the case on the news has sent his sister Dina off the rails again, and she's resurrecting something that Scorcher thought he had tightly under control: what happened to their family, one summer at Broken Harbour, back when they were children. The neat compartments of his life are breaking down, and the sudden tangle of work and family is putting both at risk . . .
(P)2012 Hodder & Stoughton
Customer Reviews
Superb tale, excellently narrated
I am a huge fan of Tana French’s books anyway but this has got to be her best crime novel so far. The story is compelling but completely believable and told with compassion. There are twists but not in a glaringly obvious way, as is the case with so many other crime thrillers.
The characters are relatable and complex and you find yourself caring about and becoming invested in all of them, which is so often not the case.
This is all topped off with the narrator doing an incredible job of conveying the story and dialogue- completely convincing and brilliantly read.