Since each novel is told from a different detective’s point of view, we loyal readers come to know the characters inside and out - both in the way they see themselves and in the (often jarring) way others see them. Her Dublin Murder Squad series (which began in 2007 with “In the Woods,” which won the Anthony, Edgar, Macavity and Barry awards) relies on the simple device of a recurring cast of police detectives, although that device isn’t so simple psychologically. French is such a gorgeous writer: She’s a poet of mood and a master builder of plots that are positively Piranesi-like in their ingeniousness.
Whenever someone asks me to name today’s top suspense novelists, my short list always includes Tana French.
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