“Faithful Place” by Tana French is a new, tangled story from the “queen of the Irish detective” in her own right! On a dark winter night in 1985, Frank Mackey, nineteen years old, climbs out the window of his cramped Dublin flat on Faithful Place with a single backpack on his shoulders. He and his beloved, Rosie, had arranged an escape to London—to flee his crazy family, poverty, working in a factory, and move toward a new life and the embodiment of a dream! But the night passes, dawn breaks, and Rosie doesn’t show up at the meeting point. Neither of them goes home. Twenty-two years later, Frank is one of the best detectives in the Dublin police. And one day, while builders work on an abandoned house on Faithful Place, they find an old suitcase—Rosie’s suitcase. Does this mean she never really ran away from him back then, many years ago? Whether it suits Frank or not, he is forced to return to the place where he was born and grew up. And once again, he is drawn into a dark tangle of relationships with relatives—relationships from which he tried so hard to keep his distance over all those years. But he has to find out the truth…