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Broken Harbour (Dublin Murder Squad, #4) by Tana French
bookshelves: hardback, series, britain-ireland, mystery-thriller, paper-read, published-2012
Read from August 07 to 10, 2012
** spoiler alert ** It's Here! *pets cover; pats pages*. So very rare that I handle a spanking new book.
Dedication: For Darley, magician and gentleman
Opening: Let's get one thing straight: I was the perfect man for this case. You'd be amazed how many of the lads would have run a mile, given the choice - and I had a choice, at least at the start.
From the back cover: Nothing about the way this family lived shows why they deserved to die.
But here's the thing about murder.
Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it doesn't break into people's lives.
It gets there because they open the door and invite it in.
Pat-the-Lad, like Elmer Fudd before him, is just not cut out to hunt down vermin, especially when the vermin appears to be more along the lines of Jimmy Stewart's pal Harvey:
So here we have in focus that touch-lined touched-upon character known as Scorcher Kennedy from Faithful Place. We don't like his arrogance at the beginning of this tale, do we readers!?; and we are not supposed to.
Along as rookie-shotgun is Ritchie who does this meteoric growth thing in almost minus pages - St. Vitus twitching in a hoodie one minute, to shirt and tie, all touchy-feely, faster than Clarkson can swear at a pedestrian. At the beginning of this tale you expect Ritchie to be all over "Holy inflatable shark"
but he stops Scorcher from making serious mistakes on quite a few occaisions. Would love to have seen him at the end of the story. There is another character that we meet and that is Scorcher's sister Dina who is all...
No need for me to go into the storyline, suffice it to say it is about the family Spain moving to a new commuter estate on the west coast of Ireland, penned by Ms French.
4.5 as it should have had fifty pages removed from the middle.
4* In The Woods (Dublin Murder Squad #1)
4* The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad #2)
4* Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad #3)
4* Broken Harbour (Dublin Murder Squad #4)
Dedication: For Darley, magician and gentleman
Opening: Let's get one thing straight: I was the perfect man for this case. You'd be amazed how many of the lads would have run a mile, given the choice - and I had a choice, at least at the start.
From the back cover: Nothing about the way this family lived shows why they deserved to die.
But here's the thing about murder.
Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it doesn't break into people's lives.
It gets there because they open the door and invite it in.
Pat-the-Lad, like Elmer Fudd before him, is just not cut out to hunt down vermin, especially when the vermin appears to be more along the lines of Jimmy Stewart's pal Harvey:So here we have in focus that touch-lined touched-upon character known as Scorcher Kennedy from Faithful Place. We don't like his arrogance at the beginning of this tale, do we readers!?; and we are not supposed to.
Along as rookie-shotgun is Ritchie who does this meteoric growth thing in almost minus pages - St. Vitus twitching in a hoodie one minute, to shirt and tie, all touchy-feely, faster than Clarkson can swear at a pedestrian. At the beginning of this tale you expect Ritchie to be all over "Holy inflatable shark"
but he stops Scorcher from making serious mistakes on quite a few occaisions. Would love to have seen him at the end of the story. There is another character that we meet and that is Scorcher's sister Dina who is all...
No need for me to go into the storyline, suffice it to say it is about the family Spain moving to a new commuter estate on the west coast of Ireland, penned by Ms French.
4.5 as it should have had fifty pages removed from the middle.
4* In The Woods (Dublin Murder Squad #1)
4* The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad #2)
4* Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad #3)
4* Broken Harbour (Dublin Murder Squad #4)
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