![]() ![]() What sets her novels apart isn’t just her mastery of suspense-surprisingly rare in crime fiction-but her patient, intelligent consideration of friendship. But this isn’t just the fan in me talking. No surprise, then, I think French succeeds with close third-person narration as much as with first-person. (No accident that these are the most female-centered of her novels.) I especially love The Secret Place, set largely in a girl’s school, with its dreamy terrors, though, if pressed, I’d choose Broken Harbour (2012), set in the Gothic ruins of the Celtic Tiger’s economic collapse, as my favourite French. I even love the books that most readers dislike, The Likeness (2008) and The Secret Place (2014). I’m a huge fan of French’s in my opinion, there’s no better writer in crime fiction today. ![]()
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