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The Book Case

Tana French On Writing An Irish Western Murder Mystery

The Book Case

ABC News

Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.1766 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

If you are a mystery fan who hasn’t read Tana French, then you have missed one of the great modern mystery writers of our time. American by birth and Irish by residence, her Irish set mysteries will both haunt you and keep you guessing. Her newest, The Hunter, is one of her best, a rousing combination of a murder mystery and heist suspense. She tells us what motivates her and how she does what she does time and time again. Our bookstore is The Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Books mentioned in this week's episode: In the Woods by Tana French The Likeness by Tana French Faithful Place by Tana French The Searcher by Tana French The Secret Place by Tana French Broken Harbor by Tana French The Witch Elm by Tana French The Trespasser by Tana French The Hunter by Tana French The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith Life After Life by Kate Atkinson The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann I Will Surprise My Friend! by Mo Willems The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello, book casers.

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It is Thursday, and that means one thing. It means that you are sat down and giving us your full attention. It is the bookcase with Kate and Charlie, and I am Kate. And I am Charlie, and you can hear way back in the background. I can hear it back in your living room. Your Alexa device, your Siri device, it's selling to you, it's time for the bookcase,

0:55.5

put everything down, listen to Kate and Charlie. And if that's not going on, well, we're glad you're

1:00.2

with us anyway. Enough of this palaver. We have Tanna French with us. Tana French is such a

1:05.9

wonderful writer. I always think the Irish have it in their DNA that they're great writers. Well, she's,

1:11.4

is an immigrant to Ireland. So I think it's something in the water that makes her such a

1:16.2

wonderful writer. But the Dublin murder series, the Dublin murder squad, I think there's six of those

1:21.2

novels. She wrote a novel that was very successful a couple of years ago called The Searcher,

1:27.1

and now she's written a

1:28.4

companion piece called The Hunter. Yeah, she does a beautiful job, I think, of showing you some of

1:34.6

the darkness of small town living, especially the darkness of small town living in Ireland.

1:39.2

One of the things I really enjoy about The Searcher and this new one, The Hunter, specifically,

1:45.4

is I think sometimes Americans look at Ireland and they think of it's cute, it's quaint, it's four-leaf

1:50.4

clover, it's, it's, it's jigs, it's Lord of the Dance. It's Leprecons, lepracons. Yes,

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