Broken Harbour
In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned - two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squad's star detective. At first he and his rookie...
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In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned - two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squad's star detective. At first he and his rookie partner, Richie, think this is a simple one: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, tried to kill his wife Jenny, and finished off with himself. But there are too many inexplicable details and the evidence is pointing in two directions at once. Scorcher's personal life is tugging for his attention. Seeing the case on the news has sent 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 Harbour, back when they were children. The neat compartments of his life are breaking down, and the sudden tangle of work and family is putting both at risk ...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781444705102 (1444705105)
Publish date: July 2nd 2012
Publisher: Hatchette Books Ireland
Pages no: 533
Edition language: English
Category:
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Adult,
Irish Literature,
Mystery,
Ireland,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense
Series: Dublin Murder Squad (#4)
Updated: December 2019: Nothing more to add except this was a great read! I just re-read since I finished up French's "The Witch Elm" and that book had me missing the Dublin Murder Squad. This book really does knock you in the teeth with a great ending I did not see coming. What a great installmen...
Broken Harbor is the fourth installment in Tana French’s fantastic Dublin Murder Squad series. Each of her the novels feature a different member of the squad, usually a character introduced in a previous work. French expertly pairs each fully-formed character with a complementary storyline and appr...
What a great installment in the Dublin Murder Squad. I didn't like Scorcher in the last book, but loved him here. It makes you sad that he was thinking of a long time partner and wanting that connection with someone and realizing he wasn't going to get it. I honestly don't have any criticism of this...
Broken Harbour is the 4th book in the Dublin Murder Squad series. I have to say that I think this was my favorite of the series so far. Which is interesting because I didn't like the main character, Mick 'Scorcher' Kennedy, in the previous book. He came across as pompous and not willing to consider ...
Update: Upon rereading this book for a literature class, I can say that is is still amazing and Tana French is phenomenal.Original Review:I think this was the perfect one.Since first discovering Tana French's novels after reading In The Woods as part of my Honors English class in college, I got a li...