![]() Until one night he surprises a pair of burglars in his house. Toby begins the book as, indeed, a lucky guy - handsome, athletic, glib, affluent - coasting through life. ![]() She also explores the slippery nature of memory, notably when you can't trust your own, and others want to fill in the blanks for reasons of their own. But French spins a compelling, twisty plot and maintains an atmosphere of foreboding and paranoia that runs throughout the book. "The Witch Elm" is long, and doesn't have the natural propulsion and structure of the Dublin Murder Squad series. "The Witch Elm" is a standalone, and here we see the police from the opposite point of view, unwelcome interlopers who become relentless threats. "I've always considered myself to be, basically, a lucky person," says Toby Hennessy, the narrator in the first line of Tana French's psychological thriller "The Witch Elm." Toby turns out to be very, very wrong.įrench is the acclaimed author of a series centered on an elite squad of Dublin murder detectives. ![]()
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