The plot picks up when, two decades later, Frank receives startling news. Determined to escape his dysfunctional family and the prison that was Faithful Place, he left regardless, albeit brokenhearted.

After finding a note inside the home, the teenager was convinced that Rosie Daly must have changed her mind. When 19-year-old Frank Mackey was left waiting outside of an abandoned house one fateful night, he believed that his lover backed out on their plans of elopement. Each follows a case in the heart of Ireland, with overlapping, complex characters that get involved in cases tied to their pasts. It is the third installment of French's loosely related 'Dublin Murder Squad' series. The book is set in Dublin, featuring undercover detective Frank Mackey, who was a supporting character in French's previous novel, The Likeness. Frank just wants to find out what happened to Rosie Daly - and he's willing to do whatever it takes, to himself or anyone else, to get the job done.Faithful Place is a 2010 crime novel by Tana French. Faithful Place wants him out because he's a detective now, and the Place has never liked cops. The cops working the case want him out of the way, in case loyalty to his family and community makes him a liability. Frank finds himself straight back in the dark tangle of relationships he left behind. Getting sucked in is a lot easier than getting out again.

Then, twenty-two years later, Rosie's suitcase shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place, and Frank is going home whether he likes it or not. Everyone thought she had gone to England on her own and was over there living a shiny new life. Frank took it for granted that she'd dumped him - probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. He and Rosie Daly were all ready to run away to London together, get married, get good jobs, break away from factory work and poverty and their old lives.īut on the winter night when they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn't show.

The hotly anticipated third novel of the Dublin murder squad from the New York Times bestselling authorīack in 1985, Frank Mackey was nineteen, growing up poor in Dublin's inner city, and living crammed into a small flat with his family on Faithful Place.

Faithful place by tana french