A review by bisaacson52
Broken Harbour by Tana French

4.0

After reading this and Faithful Place, both of which I loved, I feel I should go back to The Likeness and In the Woods. I liked those first two novels until their endings; I don't remember the exact source of my dissatisfaction, just that it was roused. With Broken Harbor, however, as with Faithful Place, French has written a story rooted in place and personal history and the desperation that can tear lives apart. Strange details keep you off balance, heightening the mystery and leaving your mind scrambling for satisfactory explanation. While I copped to the 'who' of the murders a bit before the reveal, Harbor's power lies less in the procedural than in the details of the fight ordinary people make against the darker, wild forces of our natures. Those struggles, the triumphs and capitulations, are as unique as they are universal.