the mystery's resolution is astonishing." "Tana French's new novel is an intriguing blend of whodunit and 'who am I'. "A crime thriller at the top of its game." But it's also a scathing and insightful deconstruction of social privilege, coming from a master of the form at the height of her powers." The Witch Elm is a rich, immersive, and spine-chilling book, because Tana French is great at what she does and she knows how to tell a story. "Tana French-she of the lusciously complex sentences, she of the dense and eerie atmospheres-is one of the greatest crime novelists writing today. "Since bursting onto the mystery scene with her genre-bending 2007 debut In the Woods, Tana French has cemented her reputation as a literary novelist who happens to write about murder." "The literary world's favorite mystery writer." "Detail-rich sequences lead to psychological insights and unexpected revelations." French's masterful character study is absolutely riveting and timely." " The Witch Elm, which follows a privileged man whose life gets derailed, is a timely window into what happens when men lose their precious power. A master of psychological complexity, she toys with the minds of her characters and readers both." French has spun an engrossing meditation on memory, identity, and family. Her suspense and crime elements are done exceptionally well and with great originality." Unapologetically atmospheric, the book is thought-provoking and a pleasure to read at the sentence level. The discovery they force on him revolves around one question: Whose story is this? By the time French is done retooling the mystery form-it seems there's nothing she can't make it do, no purpose she can't make it serve-the answer is clear: hers and hers alone."
even if Toby isn't on the Dublin Murder Squad, the events in The Witch Elm spur his great, transformative upheaval. "Like all of French's novels, The Witch Elm can be swooningly evocative. could make a Target run feel tense and revelatory." "Like all of her novels, it becomes an incisive psychological portrait embedded in a mesmerizing murder mystery. Get ready for the whiplash brought on by its final twists and turns."
She is in a class by herself as a superb psychological novelist. Tana French's best and most intricately nuanced novel yet. "Tana French is at her suspenseful best in The Witch Elm. Stephen King, The New York Times Book Review The book is lifted by French's nervy, almost obsessive prose. Here's a things-go-bad story Thomas Hardy could have written in his prime.
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