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The Keeper

The page-turning new mystery from the Sunday Times bestselling crime author

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By: Tana French
Narrated by: Roger Clark
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A gripping new mystery from the million-copy-bestselling author Tana French

On a cold night in a remote Irish village, a girl goes missing.

Sweet, loving Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the local big shot. Instead, she’s dead in the river.

In a place like this, her death isn’t simple. It comes wrapped in generations-old grudges and power struggles, and it splits the townland in two. Retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper has friends here now and he owes them loyalty, but his fiancée Lena wants nothing to do with Ardnakelty’s tangles. As the feud becomes more vicious, their settled peace starts to crack apart. And when they uncover a scheme that casts a new light on Rachel’s death and threatens the whole village, they find themselves in the firing line.
PRAISE FOR TANA FRENCH
‘Incandescent’ Stephen King
‘Mesmerising’ Gillian Flynn
‘Masterful’ Chris Whitaker
‘If you haven’t read Tana French yet, I really highly recommend that you do’ Harlan Coben
‘Among the first rank of great literary novelists’ Observer
'Crime fiction's biggest contemporary star' Guardian

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Brilliant , a fantastic book with so many characters that you feel you actually care about them . The story is a compulsive listen .
A masterpiece.

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I really enjoyed this book. Love the narrator. I didn't want this book to end

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The Searcher, The Hunter, The Keeper - even though, I read a scintillating review of the last, I decided to go through them in order. Such a good decision. Each of them is a whodunit but that is just a pretext. Spun around the mystery is a detailed, loving, complex painting of people and life in an Irish village. The characters start faded and with each chapter they come into focus and grow more and more. You like them, dislike them, root for them, disapprove of them and then change your mind several times along the way. The story, the descriptions, the dialogues are real and they draw you in. It’s funny, poignant, hopeful, sad. And all of this is brought together masterfully by the narrator, Roger Clarke, whom I will for sure look out for. Fabulous!

A fabulous trilogy! What a find!

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A beautifully plotted series expertly written with simpatico for the characters and a finely tuned sense of locale. Highly recommended

Fantastic

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Everything the characters are like real people
The story is perfect you really feel part of the village. I hope there is more to come

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