If we recommend books to you through this service, we’ll be able gather up those books and send them to you no matter where you are in the world. Our recommendations service is open for all to use. Moreover, we pride ourselves on being able to track down and obtain any book our customers want. She lives in Dublin with her husband and two children. She is the author of IN THE WOODS (winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Barry, Macavity and IVCA Clarion awards), THE LIKENESS, FAITHFUL PLACE, BROKEN HARBOUR (winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Best Crime Fiction) and THE SECRET PLACE. She trained as an actress at Trinity College Dublin and worked in theatre, film and voiceover. Tana French grew up in Ireland, Italy, the US and Malawi, and has lived in Dublin since 1990. The neat compartments of his life are breaking down, and the sudden tangle of work and family is putting both at risk. 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. Scorcher’s personal life is tugging for his attention. But there are too many inexplicable details and the evidence is pointing in two directions at once. 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. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squad’s star detective. The mother is on her way to intensive care. In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin – half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned – two children and their father are dead.

It gets there because they open the door and invite it in… Nothing about the way this family lived shows why they deserved to die.īut here’s the thing about murder: ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it doesn’t break into people’s lives.

Broken harbour