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A closing of ranks: The Searcher, by Tana French, reviewed

21 November 2020

9:00 AM

21 November 2020

9:00 AM

The Searcher Tana French

Viking, pp.391, 14.99

If the homage wasn’t clear from the title, Tana French makes sure throughout The Searcher, her seventh novel and second stand-alone, that there’s no doubt which genre we’re in. ‘We’ll bring you for a pint, welcome you to the Wild West,’ a cheery local Garda tells her hero, Cal Hooper.

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