Mick Kennedy is the top investigator in the Dublin Murder Squad. But his latest case might be more than he can handle. A family has been attacked in a half-abandoned development of luxury homes on the remote Irish coast, the children smothered, the parents stabbed, and only the mother survives, clinging to life in the hospital. It should be an easy case, but too many things don't add up: no evidence of a break-in, dozens of baby monitors lined up on the table, and holes punched in the walls throughout the victims' house. When Kennedy's partner continues to have doubts about the lead suspect, the detective's open-and-shut case threatens to collapse, and with it his trust in everything he believes about crime and justice.
Broken Harbor is the fourth novel by award-winning mystery writer Tana French. More than just a police procedural, it's a terrifying and all-too-plausible portrayal of anxiety and depression spiraling down into madness, and how a detective comes to recognize himself a little too much in the crime he's investigating. For more mysteries with a flavor of psychological suspense, try authors
Mo Hayder and
Minette Walters. -
Michelle (Sunset)
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