He learns that he can’t be the person he was in Chicago and still be happy. He also discovers that he must reexamine his own moral code and perhaps make some adjustments. Cal starts asking questions, and that’s when trouble finds him.Ĭal discovers that his seemingly idyllic village is not as it appears, and his neighbors have secrets he never would have guessed. Cal reluctantly agrees, but he’s no longer a cop, so his only resource is his own wits. Trey’s brother has been missing six months, and Trey first asks then pressures Cal to help. That plan is shattered when a local kid asks for his help. He wants nothing more than to fish, shoot a few rabbits, visit the pub occasionally, and have little to do with other people. A North Carolina country boy, Cal is damaged by what he sees on the job with the Chicago police force. Perhaps Irish-American author Tana French’s nihilism is softening with age, but the main character in “The Searcher,” which launched in October, is less tortured and ends up less troubled than any of the detectives in her Dublin Murder Squad series or her first stand-alone novel, “The Witch Elm.”Īmerican ex-cop Cal Hooper buys a run-down farm in a tiny Irish village to escape the trauma of his former job and his failed marriage.
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