Dublin Murder Squad Series (5 Audiobooks) - REPACK - Tana French

Written by Tana French
Format: MP3
Unabridged

From Salon.com ( http://www.slate.com/article...lin_murder_squad_series.html ):
"French’s Dublin Murder Squad series [is] a masterful set of five detective novels that constructs a deeply observed portrait of modern Dublin. Seeing a city unfold over time through the eyes of a detective is, of course, one of the great pleasures of crime fiction—think of Los Angeles in Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch series or Chicago in Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski series—but French’s series explores Dublin with remarkable scope and dexterity. Each successive novel has centered on a detective introduced in a previous novel. It’s a handy gimmick, sure, but it’s also created a structure that’s allowed French to explore, in increasingly nuanced ways, the city she calls home.

In the first of the series, In the Woods (2007), Detective Rob Ryan investigates a homicide in a suburban Dublin estate where he was the victim of an unsolved crime 20 years prior. In the next book, The Likeness (2008), Cassie Maddox, Rob’s partner on that case, goes undercover to investigate the homicide of a Trinity College grad student who bears an uncanny resemblance to her. In 2010’s Faithful Place Cassie’s boss, Frank Mackey, returns to the eponymous Dublin tenement where he grew up and unearths the murder of the girl he planned to run away with two decades ago. In 2012’s Broken Harbor Mick “Scorcher” Kennedy, who investigated the Faithful Place murder, catches a case involving a young family living in a half-built, nearly abandoned housing development outside the city.

The Secret Place catches up with Stephen Moran, an up-and-comer who went behind Mick’s back to help Frank in Faithful Place, as he works to solve a homicide at the private school Frank’s daughter attends. Because each detective has a different history in the city, each book investigates a set of locations and relationships from his or her point of view; because they all remain connected, each book provides an opportunity to see characters we’ve already met through a different set of eyes. There is no objective vision in French’s novels. Reading them is a singular experience of discovery and rediscovery, and each book evokes the gratifying feeling of gaining unexpected insight into a person or place you thought you knew well."