He has a new young detective as a partner, a boy from decidedly the wrong side of the tracks, but who is very astute and clever. For example, he does not know the names of many of the detectives working under him, he simply calls them all ’Floaters’. He is very calm, very controlling of his murder scene and his team, but also somewhat distant. The murder squad is led by Mick Kennedy, an experienced murder detective with a good record who is very sure of himself. A husband and two young children are found dead the mother severely injured. It begins with the murder of a family on one of these ghost estates – half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned – a place called Broken Harbour, now known as Brianstown. Many of these empty estates – dubbed ghost estates – still stand.Īnd this is where this book starts. People had been encouraged to buy and now couldn’t sell.
Thousands of housing estates were built – sometimes shoddily – and when the crash occurred, they were often left unfinished and uninhabited/uninhabitable. From the point of view of this book, the failure of the housing industry is important. After years of prosperity fuelled by EU money, and especially a property boom, the international financial crash hit Ireland hard and caused severe recession with huge unemployment and austerity measures.
Broken Harbour by Tana French is a very good book, but one that’s difficult to describe.įirst, it would be useful to remember the Irish financial crisis of 2008 because it forms the background for this book and drives much of it.
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