Broken Harbour
On sale
9th August 2018
Price: £10.99
Genre
THE STUNNING, AWARD-WINNING THRILLER FROM THE MODERN QUEEN OF CRIME FICTION
‘To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she’s simply this: a truly great writer’ GILLIAN FLYNN
‘Tana French is one of the most assured crime novelists writing today and Broken Harbour affirms her reputation’ TIME OUT
‘With Broken Harbour, Tana French should cement her name not only as the queen of Irish crime fiction but the queen of Irish fiction’ SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
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In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin, two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care.
At first Detective Scorcher Kennedy, and his rookie partner, Richie, think this is cut and dry: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, tried to kill his wife, Jenny, and then himself. But inexplicable details keep cropping up.
Soon the neat compartments of Scorcher’s life begin to break down, putting both his professional and personal life at risk. As the case reaches its apex, he will be forced to face the truth of what happened to him and his family all those years ago, one dark summer at Broken Harbour.
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IRISH BOOK AWARD FOR CRIME FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER
DILYS AWARD FOR BEST BOOK (shortlist)
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Praise for the talismanic Tana French and her novels
‘With red herrings and false turns aplenty, Broken Harbour by Tana French will keep you gripped right to the shocking final page’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
‘I can do you no greater favour in life than recommending that you read her books’ GUARDIAN
‘The most interesting, the most important crime novelist to emerge in the last ten years’ WASHINGTON POST
‘The most breathtakingly brilliant and close-to-perfect thriller I’ve read for a long time’ SOPHIE HANNAH
‘I’m a big fan of Tana French’ IAN RANKIN
‘This is a tour de force of suspense and storytelling. Comes closer to perfection than anything I’ve read in the last decade’ SARAH HILARY
‘French offers a masterclass in unreliability’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘An audacious departure for this immensely talented author . . . not to be missed’ NEW YORK TIMES
‘A wonderfully assured and beautifully written debut novel’ IRISH INDEPENDENT
‘To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she’s simply this: a truly great writer’ GILLIAN FLYNN
‘Tana French is one of the most assured crime novelists writing today and Broken Harbour affirms her reputation’ TIME OUT
‘With Broken Harbour, Tana French should cement her name not only as the queen of Irish crime fiction but the queen of Irish fiction’ SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
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In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin, two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care.
At first Detective Scorcher Kennedy, and his rookie partner, Richie, think this is cut and dry: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, tried to kill his wife, Jenny, and then himself. But inexplicable details keep cropping up.
Soon the neat compartments of Scorcher’s life begin to break down, putting both his professional and personal life at risk. As the case reaches its apex, he will be forced to face the truth of what happened to him and his family all those years ago, one dark summer at Broken Harbour.
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IRISH BOOK AWARD FOR CRIME FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER
DILYS AWARD FOR BEST BOOK (shortlist)
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Praise for the talismanic Tana French and her novels
‘With red herrings and false turns aplenty, Broken Harbour by Tana French will keep you gripped right to the shocking final page’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
‘I can do you no greater favour in life than recommending that you read her books’ GUARDIAN
‘The most interesting, the most important crime novelist to emerge in the last ten years’ WASHINGTON POST
‘The most breathtakingly brilliant and close-to-perfect thriller I’ve read for a long time’ SOPHIE HANNAH
‘I’m a big fan of Tana French’ IAN RANKIN
‘This is a tour de force of suspense and storytelling. Comes closer to perfection than anything I’ve read in the last decade’ SARAH HILARY
‘French offers a masterclass in unreliability’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘An audacious departure for this immensely talented author . . . not to be missed’ NEW YORK TIMES
‘A wonderfully assured and beautifully written debut novel’ IRISH INDEPENDENT
Reviews
Poignant, compelling, beautifully written and wonderfully atmospheric.
A complex, well crafted psychological thriller as well as an exemplary dissection of the plight of the disappointed and desperate human wreckage washed up in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland . . . A hugely impressive and intelligent book . . . It confirms French as the First Lady of Irish Crime.
A tale about the different facets of obsession and insanity . . . The best yet of French's four excellent thrillers, it leaves its readers "throat-deep in terror" . . . enticing, threatening, atmospheric prose
A gripping story in an atmospheric setting by an author who knows how to grab a reader's interest and never let it go.
An emotionally jolting story of love, obsession and madness is played out to incredible effect. Since her first novel, In the Woods, was larded with awards in 2007, French has garnered a huge legion of fans and they will be thrilled with this, her fourth and possibly best novel.
If you want well-made, lyrical thrillers that will have you gripped without pretending to be something else, why not try Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series? Indulgent, ingenious - and utterly unputdownable.
