As always, French's carefully wrought prose is a delight. 'Broken Harbour is 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. As always with Tana French, you can expect humour, pathos and well-observed social commentary, but above all, a cracking story that keeps you guessing until the end' ( Sunday Independent) This is a writer working at the height of her powers. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. 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.

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