After writing six novels about police detectives in Dublin, Tana French is tackling the characters across the interrogation table. Here, she tells Esquire about 'The Hunter,' her unforgettable new thriller.
A new Tana French novel is an event, as it has been since her debut In the Woods established her astonishing command of the crime genre, specifically the police procedural. Five more novels in the Dublin Murder Squad series followed, cementing and extending French’s formidable reputation for literary-minded crime.As good as those books are, French’s most recent efforts are of even greater interest to me, as they experiment with different genre forms.
After finishing The Searcher, did you know that you would be writing a sequel? Was Cal Hooper intended to be a series character? Because I didn’t think so the first time I read The Searcher, but when I read it again in advance of our conversation, I started to think otherwise. You’re right, The Searcher was originally intended to be a standalone. I’d just handed in when the pandemic hit. So there was a while in there where I wasn’t doing any writing because I had two little kids at home doing distance learning. And, like everybody else, my subconscious was basically a smoking crater while I tried to figure out what on earth was going on. And you kind of need your subconscious, if you're a writer—it does a lot of the work. So I didn't do anything for a while.
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