French returns to the west of Ireland for her new novel, a sequel to 'The Searcher.'
Aug. 15, 2023, 2:15 PM UTCFrench, known for her Dublin Murder Squad mystery series, traded in the grit of the police procedural for a seemingly friendlier kind of mystery starting with her 2020 novel,"The Searcher."
"It’s been two years since 'Searcher', and Cal, Trey, and Lena have built up a good, happy life — but then Trey’s absent father comes home, and he’s brought along an English millionaire, a big plan to make the whole townland rich, and a whole lot of trouble. It’s got plenty of Western elements — everything from revenge to a gold rush," French tells TODAY.com.
"Irish Western" is the perfect description. There are a lot of resonances between the Western and Irish literature; Ireland has a lot of books and plays showing our rural societies as places so far removed from the centers of power, both geographically and culturally, that people feel like the power-brokers don’t have a clue about them and don’t care, and if they want a functioning community, they need to make and enforce their own rules. That’s Western territory.
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