![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the process of searching for Brendan, Cal ferrets out a bog’s worth of secrets and sins festering beneath this quaint patch of the Auld Sod. So it is that Cal, despite his reluctance, gets drawn into the case - as we readers know he will - because that’s what makes these quiet men who preside over Westerns and detective novels the flawed heroes they are. Anyone who is unfamiliar with the work of Tana French should definitely seek out her latest novel, a standalone called The Searcher. ![]() The local police have been useless, prejudiced, as they are, against the entire Reddy family as a pack of lazy troublemakers. (Everyone in the nearest village has sussed out by Celtic telepathy that the American-who-bought-the-cottage is an ex-cop.) Eventually, Trey confesses the real reason he’s been hanging around: He wants Cal to find out what happened to his beloved 19-year-old brother, Brendan, who vanished from the family cottage months ago. One thing Trey doesn’t need to learn is that Cal is an ex-cop. Before long, Trey is coming around regularly to help Cal and to learn carpentry. When Cal corners the voyeur, he turns out to be a wayward adolescent named Trey Reddy, who lives on a nearby mountain with his single mother and siblings. The back of his neck - “trained over twenty-five years in the Chicago PD” - registers a watcher, someone who’s been creeping around the cottage and disturbing the nesting rooks. But, as the mists of autumn close in, Cal realizes that he’s not as alone as he thought. ![]()
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