Tana French is an American-born Irish crime novelist best known for the Dublin Murder Squad series, beginning with In the Woods. Her work blends detective fiction with literary psychological suspense, using shifting narrators, atmospheric Irish settings, and investigations that... reveal as much about the detectives as the crimes themselves. In the Dublin Murder Squad books, secondary characters often move into the foreground in later novels, creating a loose but emotionally connected series shaped by memory, trauma, class tension, secrecy, and unreliable personal histories. French has also written standalones such as The Witch Elm, The Searcher, and The Hunter, which continue her interest in slow-burning suspense, moral ambiguity, and richly drawn characters. Readers return to French for crime fiction that is intelligent, haunting, and deeply human.
