Stephanie Merritt

A closing of ranks: The Searcher, by Tana French, reviewed

A private investigator meets with a wall of silence after an adolescent vanishes without trace in tight-knit rural Ireland

Tana French. Credit: Alamy 
issue 21 November 2020
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    Tana French

    Viking, pp. 391, £14

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