Jennifer Spain: Native Ireland

Classic Detective Stories Dept: Tana French welds classic detective stories to gripping dissections of victims, perpetrators and pursuers, all in the context of recessionary angst in her native Ireland, according to Winnipeg Free Press. While an idealistic rookie cop evokes the quixotic demands of justice and a mental-case sister disturbs Kennedy's brittle sanity, it's the gut-wrenching fate of surviving wife and mother Jennifer Spain that supplies the visceral power to this top-notch tale and french: a top-notch tale Enlarge Image Enlarge Image Enlarge Image Enlarge Image Enlarge Image Enlarge Image In a new but semi-abandoned Dublin suburb once called Broken Harbour Hodder a Stoughton, 496 pages, $35 , Murder Squad detective Mick Kennedy not only discovers the insidious, mind-warping role of loss and broken dreams in the murders of a typical family man and his two children, but also the frail certainty of his own memories. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.