With every Dublin Murder Squad book I read, I'm more and more in love with Tana French. I did start reading the series out of order with this one and I'm not sure that was the right call, but regardless I really really REALLY enjoyed this book. Even when I think I'm not enjoying the characters or the story, I still just can't seem to put a Tana French book down—I don't know how she does it!

I was a little bit worried that Antoinette Conway was going to be just another version of Cassie Maddox (of In the Woods and The Likeness), and that French would start to become kind of one-note for me. And while they definitely are similar characters, they are distinct enough and the stories different enough that it still all felt new and great. I love French's setup of keeping with the Murder Squad but featuring different detectives every time; it makes every book stand on its own, but still gives the reader that happy pleasant feeling of being swept up in a series.

The case in this book definitely kept me hooked, too. In the first two I read, the featured cases were kind of weird anomalies in the detective world; so I liked a bit of change of pace in this book, when the case (though perhaps not its resolution) was pretty standard, and coming to the end required good-old-fashioned detective work. Which I love. More Tana, pleaseeeeee and thank you.