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The witch elm review new york times5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Wych Elm is no exception to that rule. When you pick up a Tana French novel, you know you are in for a deep exploration of character and motive. Then, as if things couldn’t get worse, a skull is discovered in a tree on a family property - and he becomes one of the suspects. ![]() But his luck runs out when he is the victim of a brutal assault that leaves him with a damaged brain and PTSD. Her protagonist is Toby Hennessy, a young man of good looks, good luck and a sunny personality. Instead of telling the story from the point of view of police detectives, The Wych Elm tells it from the point of view of one of us: an ordinary person, someone for whom a murder in their circle is a profoundly disorienting and unsettling circumstance. Now she’s out with a new novel, but it isn’t part of that series - or any series, for that matter. When we last interviewed American Irish writer Tana French (about her 2016 novel The Trespasser) we said that she has been called “the most interesting, most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years.” She earned that reputation for her Dublin Murder Squad crime series, of which The Trespasser was one. Then we re-air our 2016 interview with her about her last to date in the Dublin Murder Squad series, The Trespasser. We spend the hour talking with master of crime fiction Tana French, first about her new novel The Wych Elm (given a rave review by Stephen King in the New York Times.) ![]()
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