Like Tartt, she wants more than mere murder. Her books have sold millions of copies and some of the earlier novels are being made into a television series for the BBC. We also drifted back to the past, to the books she inhaled as a younger reader, including another work that defies genre boundaries: The Secret History.Ĭrime has been good to French. Over the course of our conversation, in a busy café in Dublin, French wanted to talk about the challenge of this new POV. The narrator is not a detective, but rather an entitled young white man named Toby who sustains neurological damage after an assault by two burglars. Her latest, The Wych Elm, is a departure of sorts. Like an actor keen to play each role, French has inhabited the consciousness of one detective after the next over the course of six novels: In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbour, The Secret Place, The Trespasser. As the creator of the fictional Dublin Murder Squad, she’s chosen a new narrator for each instalment. Tana French’s novels are prized by connoisseurs of crime fiction.
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