“The Hunter” by Tana French defies the rules of suspense writing

A look, a grimace, a tightening of the shoulders: the suspense is in the details – the little details – scattered throughout Tana French's new novel, “The Hunter”. These moments pile up until, in the novel's breathtaking climax, the veneer of the mundane crumbles, revealing the unthinkable beneath. “The Hunter” is the extraordinary sequel to “The Searcher” (2020), a novel that blinded some of the French. Longtime fans accustomed to the action of its police procedural series Dublin Murder Squad. (You don't need to have read "The Searcher" to enjoy "The Hunter," although that helps.) Cal Hooper, the quiet hero French introduced in "The Searcher," is a police detective from Chicago who bought an abandoned house in the west of Ireland precisely so that he would never again have to chase down criminals or use his service weapon. He longed for what WB Yeats called "the peace [that] comes slowly" to the Irish countryside. What Cal should have known, however, is that evil doesn't read tourist brochures. The only thing that happened "slowly" in "The Searcher" was Cal's romantic illusion of rural life in Ireland.

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