This is the third book in French’s Dublin Murder Squad series and I think it is the best. The others were In the Woods and The Likeness.

I listened to the audio version which was read by Tim Gerard Reynolds. He did a wonderful job with different voices, all with Irish accents speaking French’s dialogue full of Irish black humor and idiom.

The main character in this book is Frank Makey, an undercover cop, who is called back to his boyhood home on Faithful Place when the suitcase of his girlfriend, Rosie Daly is found behind the chimney in a derelict house 22 years after they were supposed to have runaway together. Frank waited for her on that long ago winter’s night, but she never showed. He thought she went to London without him and he soon learns she never left at all.

Allison