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The mesmerising new mystery from the Sunday Times bestselling author

The Searcher

The Sunday Times bestseller

The Wych Elm

The Hunter

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'Among the first rank of great literary novelists

Comes closer to perfection than anything I’ve read in the last decade

As with all of French's books, something is awry – and the fun is in the unravelling

A master of novels filled with creeping unease, slow-rolling tension and great atmosphere

The Hunter defies the rules of suspense writing

French spins a taut tale of retribution, sacrifice, and family

Spectacular. Beautifully crafted characters and full of tension... I was on edge from page one

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in the village. They’re coming for gold. What they bring is trouble. 
 
Cal Hooper was a Chicago detective, till he moved to the West of Ireland looking for peace. He’s found it, more or less – in his relationship with local woman Lena, and the bond he’s formed with half-wild teenager Trey. So when two men turn up with a money-making scheme to find gold in the townland, Cal gets ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey. Because one of the men is no stranger: he’s Trey’s father. 
 
But Trey doesn’t want protecting. What she wants is revenge.

'A richly told tale of tangled loyalties. French ratchets up the tension in increments . . . By the end, these characters have taken on such solidity that, long after finishing it, I often catch myself wondering how they’re doing – a testament to the author’s mastery of her craft' GUARDIAN 
 
Return to the dark underbelly of Ardnakelty in the thrilling new sequel to The Searcher. 
 
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It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in the village. They’re coming for gold. What they bring is trouble. 
 
Two years have passed since retired Police Detective Cal Hooper moved from Chicago to the West of Ireland looking for peace. He’s found it, more or less – in his relationship with local woman Lena, and the bond he’s formed with half-wild teenager Trey. So when two men turn up with a money-making scheme to find gold in the townland, Cal gets ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey. Because one of the men is no stranger: he’s Trey’s father. 
 
But Trey doesn’t want protecting. What she wants is revenge. 
 
Crackling with tension and slow-burn suspense, The Hunter explores what we’ll do for our loved ones, what we’ll do for revenge, and what we sacrifice when the two collide, from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Tana French. 
 
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Nobody writes tension like Tana French: 
'Terrific - terrifying, amazing' STEPHEN KING 
'One of the greats of contemporary crime fiction' IAN RANKIN 
‘A truly great writer’ GILLIAN FLYNN 
'Crime fiction's biggest contemporary star' GUARDIAN 
‘If you haven’t read Tana French yet, I really highly recommend that you do’ HARLAN COBEN 
 
 
Irish Times bestseller, March 2024

Tana French is the Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling author of In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbour, The Secret Place, The Trespasser and The Wych Elm. Her books have won awards including the Edgar, Anthony, Barry and Macavity awards, the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Best Crime Fiction. She grew up in Ireland, Italy, the US and Malawi, and trained as an actor at Trinity College Dublin. She lives in Dublin with her family.

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