The Hunter by Tana French Book Review
The Hunter by Tana French: A Meditation on Justice, Power, and Belonging Tana French has always been a writer who defies genre expectations. While she gained recognition through her Dublin Murder Squad series, which combined literary prose with compelling procedural plots, her recent work has moved away from traditional crime fiction into something deeper, more atmospheric, and psychological. Buy Here With The Hunter, the sequel to The Searcher, French doubles down on this shift. Instead of a tightly wound thriller or a classic whodunit, we get a novel that unfolds slowly, immersing us in a rural Irish village where justice isn’t about laws, but about who holds power in the community. This is a book about consequences—about how past violence never disappears but lingers in the air like the oppressive summer heat that French so vividly describes. If The Searcher was about an outsider (Cal Hooper) learning to navigate the wary, insular community of Ardnakelty, then The Hunter is about th...