The Keeper (Cal Hooper #3) by Tana French (2026), 496 pages
The
Keeper concludes French's Cal Hooper series. I will miss Cal, a retired Chicago
police detective, and his struggles to feel at home in the entrenched Irish
village of Ardnakelty. I really enjoyed the first installment of the series,
The Searcher, and mainly continued on as I like Cal's character. I just did not
enjoy #2 and #3 as much. French is VERY wordy. While she does a fantastic job
of evoking the essence of Ardnakelty and its people, the story gets bogged down
with the minutia. Unlike #2 (The Hunter), though, you actually get to the
mystery in the first third of the book! yay! I appreciate French bringing
topical issues to her novels and The Keeper brings home issues of change vs.
tradition that many communities are facing. What I did not care for was the ending.
I do not want to give spoilers, but I don't believe the character would do what
the character did.
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