Tana French writes the kind of books people claim Ken Bruen has written. Only better. Frank Mackey is an excellent, scorching character, the dialogue sparkles, and the picture she paints is something you can easily get lost in for a few days or hours.

SPOILER (ISH): The only place I’ve ever seen better writing, from Bruen, is in the ending. It ended well enough, but it didn’t knock the breath out of me the way the ending of The Dramatist did. But this was a really, really great read.