The Searcher gives us a classic stoic loner in retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper living in the rather remote village of Artnakelty, Ireland. But I’m damn glad that I put that aside to pick up French’s latest, the standalone The Searcher because good god can this woman write.Įven knowing that this book is slower paced and less twisting than her other books I can see the places where she would do that, if she wasn’t meditating on the Western format here and embracing its slower ways. But I think another component was that I knew French wrote gritty, hard-boiled crime novels and I just wasn’t in the mood for those, no matter the quality of the writing (the Gamache books are much more on the cozy end of the spectrum most of the time). Late last year I commented on narfna’s review that I was hesitant to pick up another author who writes an ongoing series (I’ve got the Inspector Gamache books to contend with) and that’s true enough. I waited to pick up a Tana French novel even though she is highly regarded around these parts.
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