Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad)

By Tana French

Book Overview

The mesmerizing fourth novel of the Dublin murder squad by New York Times bestselling author Tana French Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy, the brash cop from Tana French's bestselling Faithful Place , plays by the book and plays hard. That's what's made him the Murder squad's top detective--and that's what puts the biggest case of the year into his hands. On one of the half-built, half-abandoned "luxury" developments that litter Ireland, Patrick Spain and his two young children are dead. His wife, Jenny, is in intensive care. At first, Scorcher and his rookie partner, Richie, think it's going to be an easy solve. But too many small things can't be explained. The half dozen baby monitors, their cameras pointing at holes smashed in the Spains' walls. The files erased from the Spains' computer. The story Jenny told her sister about a shadowy intruder who was slipping past all the locks. And Broken Harbor holds memories for Scorcher. Seeing the case on the news sends 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 Harbor, back when they were children. With her signature blend of police procedural and psychological thriller, French's new novel goes full throttle with a heinous crime, creating her most complicated detective character and her best book yet.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670023655
• ISBN13: 9780670023653
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.5" x 6.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Yikes

This was a haunting tale of how seemingly trivial details in life can become game changers. Another great read by Tana French.

Great read, kept me reading late in the night.

Kept me wondering who did it. Liked the main detective and his partner. Excellent thriller. Will now have to go back and read her books in order.

Broken Harbor is a exceptionally interesting psychologically based mystery.

I love all of Dana French's books especially since they are a series but with a variety of police protagonists. This book looks at the psychological breakdowns of the victims, detectives, and the detectives' family. It is devastating to read and beautifully written with endless twists and surprises.