Faithful Place (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Francis "Frank" Mackey: Undercover detective; protagonist.
• Seamus "Shay" Mackey: Frank's older brother. He is planning to buy the bike shop where he works.
• Carmel: Frank's older sister. She is married and has four children.
• Kevin Mackey: Frank's younger brother. Good-looking, sweet and not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
• Jacinta "Jackie" Mackey: Frank's younger sister. She is a hairstylist and has kept in touch with Frank.
• Holly Mackey: Frank's nine-year-old daughter.
• Olivia: Frank's ex-wife; Holly's mother.
• Rosie Daly: Frank Mackey's 19 year old girlfriend who disappeared on the night the two of them were to runaway to England
• Mandy Cullen: One of Rosie's adolescent girl friends.
• Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy: Homicide detective and closest mate in training while in cop school. Frank was the one who gave Mick the nickname of Scorcher.
• Stephen Moran: Detective floater that Frank convinces to keep him informed regarding Rosie's murder investigation.
• Imelda Tierney: One of Rosie's adolescent girlfriends.
• Nora Daly: Rosie's younger sister

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• In all your life, only a few moments matter. Mostly you never get a good look at them except in hindsight, long after they’ve zipped past you:

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• I’ve always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you’re over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he’s not into strong women is fooling himself mindless: he’s into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in their makeup bags.

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• when someone you love needs you to, you can get a hold of your five-alarm temper, get a hold of the shapeless things that scare you senseless, act like an adult instead of the Cro-Magnon teenager you are, you can do a million things you never saw coming.

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• women prefer to hate each other at close range, where you get more bang for your buck.

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• Some people should never meet. The fallout spreads too wide and gets into the ground for much too long.

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• I know this is going to be a shock and I’m sorry but please don’t be feeling like I messed you around on purpose, I never wanted to do that. Only I’ve thought about it really hard, this is the only way I’ll ever have a decent chance at the kind of life I want. I just wish I could do it and not hurt you/upset you/disappoint you. It would be great if you could wish me luck in my new life in England!! but if you can’t I understand. I swear I’ll come back someday. Till then, loads and loads and loads of love, Rosie.

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• Things around here were more like they used to be than they ever had been.

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• They say boys wreck your house and girls wreck your head, and it’s the truth.”

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• We were still at the age when girls are years older than guys, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.

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• And I was in. There’s no password more powerful than your past.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Dublin
• Faithful Place

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by The Likeness, and followed by Broken Harbour.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Tana French (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• Amazon Best of the Month (July 2010, #1)
• Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year (2010: Fiction)
• Edgar Award (Finalist, 2011: Best Novel)
• Macavity Awards (2011: Best Mystery Novel)

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• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Some young adults could handle this if a good reader. Includes very adult concepts. No real blood or gore. Lots of swearwords (both 'traditional' and Irish).

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• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Suspense
• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › Irish