Something went wrong. “You can take that feeding-time look off your face, Conway. I’m just trying to live up to her standards.” He heads for the printer and starts sorting pages. ), Back to the Dublin murder squad and a second showing of Detective Antoinette Conway. “Then you’re free to work this.” And he holds up a call sheet. * Good Housekeeping * This is crime writing at its most sublime: spell-binding story-telling with a … And she’d’ve gone for a pint after.” “She was an alco, yeah?”, “Total lush. It’s the most sunlight we’ve seen all week. Just got the hell out of Dodge. Then when he realized what was after happening, he got spooked and did a legger.”. This is an excellent police procedural and, to my mind, Tana French's best book yet. Using Cool Girl as a weapon means using soft power instead of hard power. Across from me Steve is whistling, which out of most people would make me want to do damage, but he’s doing it right: some old trad tune that I quarter-remember from singsongs when I was a kid, low and absent and contented, breaking off when he needs to concentrate and coming back with easy trills and flourishes when the report starts going right again. Steve hits Print, and the printer in the corner starts its rickety wheeze. Me and my partner are finishing up another night shift, the kind I used to think wouldn’t exist on the Murder Squad: a massive scoop of boring and a bigger one of stupid, topped off with an avalanche of paperwork. I say, “What.”, I glance across: Steve is watching me, steady-eyed. .”. 6 by Tana French ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 4, 2016 A sheltered young woman comes out … Could this be the big case Conway and Moran have been waiting for? This book took 400+ pages to tell a story that could have been told in 80 since most of the book was just inane back and forth BSing between she and her colleagues. or do i need to read all of them to understand what's going on? “Detective Conway,” I say, finding gloves and shoe covers in my bag. For one thing...he was the narrator. We’d love your help. More By and About This Author. Back to the Dublin murder squad and a second showing of Detective Antoinette Conway. Another Dublin Murder: Tana French; 5 Writing Tips from Tana French… “The day shift’ll be in any minute.”, “And you’re in now. “I’ll ring him on the way,” I say, picking up the call sheet and stuffing it in my jacket pocket. I have the hang of him enough to know when he wants to say some- thing, anyway. We need to be left the fuck alone to do our job.”. I’m in no humor for this. She has become quite paranoid lately in the department as other squad members pull mean pranks and are leaking sensitive case details she. It’s another fucking domestic, or else it’s not even murder, she died from a fucking fall just like the caller said, because if there was a snowball’s chance in hell that it was anything halfway decent, O’Kelly would’ve waited till the morning shift got in and given it to Breslin and McCann or some other pair of smarmy little—Jesus! Steve scoops the blue flasher out from under his seat, leans out the window and slaps it on the roof. The door swings open, and Sophie Miller sticks her head out. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 21, 2020. Me and Steve have known each other eight months, been partnered up for four. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. “Alarm going off ?”, “No. The truth is, if you don't exist without someone else, you don't exist at all. After a second he asks, “What would you do instead? The long runs of tall redbrick buildings and shop signs shrink and split into clusters of houses, give the light room to widen across the sky, turning the low layer of clouds gray and pale yellow. One morning, the gaffer hands her and her partner Stephen Moran the case of twenty-six-year-old murder victim Aislinn Murray. It did take me a bit to get into as Antoinette is a deeply negative ch. When the ambulance got there, the door was locked, no one answering. Two scumbags decided to round off their Saturday night out by using another scumbag’s head as a dance mat, for reasons that are clear to no one including them; we turned up six witnesses, every one of whom was banjoed drunk, every one of whom told a different story from the other five, and every one of whom wanted us to forget the murder case and investigate why he had been thrown out of the pub / sold bad skunk / ditched by his girlfriend. “Well, yeah, I got that,” Steve says, but with a grin that makes it a shared joke, not the smackdown I would have pulled out. The street is narrow enough that the parked cars all have two tires on the curb. To see what your friends thought of this book, Just finished it, can't quite say I loved it but it was a fantastic experience. They were a great duo --- but what was so impressive was that Tana was so good at writing a 'male voice' --you'd swear a man wrote it. In any squad, people last a lot longer than two years. The room is stifling hot and stinks of cooked meat and scented candle. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. The thing about old neighborhoods: people still mind each other’s business. In Tana French's very first book, "In The Woods", one of my favorite characters was named Rob Ryan. Finally! “No, it’s fucking not. Another time.” I don’t have it in me. He’s wrapping his scarf tighter. anyone who likes police procedurals or character driven stories, What does a star rating mean? Why I love it. In Murder, if you put someone away, anyone else he would’ve killed stays alive. The gaffer has wandered over to the roster whiteboard and is squinting at it. He says, any time I want a job . Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2017. At its center is Detective Antoinette Conway who is new to the Dublin Murder Squad and who has gotten a very cool reception. That said it’s still a very good story and I enjoyed it. The likeness is one of my favorite books. Please try again. This is about as long as we can get away with not ringing Breslin, before he shows up at work and the gaffer wants to know what he’s doing there. why does this book have such a low rating? Tana French. Him, and the whispery hum of the computers, and the winter wind idling around the windows: just those, and silence. Over on that side table.” Sophie points with her pen. The character development and unexpected insight elsewhere as an aside that sheds light on a former central characters (insert something that you noticed and wished the author had alluded too at the time; ah - she's good this one!