A review by shelving
Broken Harbour by Tana French

3.0

(3.4) there's this murakami bingo floating around on the internet out there that could probably work for french, too. not the precise bingo squares, of course, but the predictability with which her plot builds and gains momentum, the backdrop on which it is laid upon. the mystery itself is different every time, but everything else that builds up to it is the same. one crucial detail missed out because the protag is too wrapped up in their own heads to catch it, an old creature from the past comes gasping to life, blind-sides or distracts them entirely. smokes and mirrors. a whole checklist of buried horrors come back to life.

nonetheless, i get what i'm looking for. a solid(ish) mystery buried 3 feet deep in the webs of the characters' relationships with each other. writing that sparks and burns and, when i'm least expecting it, gets to me.