This novel takes readers into the long-forgotten world of the women searchers who once played an important role in the solving of crimes, and eventually into the twenty-first century, where mysteries are resolved and new enigmas unfold.Ī MYSTERY WHICH WILL ENTRANCE AND HAUNT YOU. He is approached by a local teenager, Teresa Trey Reddy, who says her brother, Brendan has gone missing and she suspects foul play. Alexander and based on real characters and a true crime. In the suspense novel The Searcher by Tana French, Calvin Cal Hooper moved to Western Ireland to leave behind the stress of his career as a police officer in Chicago.
Written by Australian history professor T.J. MEET ADAH FLINT AND DISCOVER THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE SEARCHERSĪdah's search for the truth takes her through the cosmopolitan backstreets of early 19th century London, with its inns and prisons, street markets and prostitution, cruelty and compassion. January 1822: A child is found dead on wasteland in London's Liberty of Norton Folgate.Īdah Flint, the Liberty's Searcher, must examine the little girl's body to determine her identity and discover the cause of death.
As in that apocryphal myth of the frog in boiling water, the novel lulls us readers to lie back and bask in French’s radiant. “This is an important as well as an entertaining story and should be a must-read for those bored with traditional Victorian fiction, those concerned with the unfolding historical role of women and those who just love a great story based on truth and told with utter believability and real compassion.“ Crime Review The Searcher, by Tana French, is a slow burn of a suspense story.
A GRIPPING VICTORIAN CRIME MYSTERY BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF THE AUTHOR’S GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDMOTHER, ADAH FLINT.
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