After more is discovered about the disappearance of Rosie, Mackey is drawn deeper into the mystery of Faithful Place. In many ways, Mackey fits the profile of the classic hardboiled detective. Frank is wary of being drawn back into the chaos of his parents’ and Shay’s lives, and in particular doesn’t want his own little girl to grow up anywhere near this environment. The younger siblings are less harsh toward Frank, since they weren’t as directly impacted by his absence. Shay blames Frank for leaving the responsibility of the family on him. Shay has had to stay close over the years, living in the apartment above his parents, in order to keep his bully of a drunken father in line. He is resented by his parents and his oldest brother Shay, as they think he has become the enemy (since he works for the police) and has put on airs by marrying a woman with family money. The book largely focuses on Mackey’s relationship to his family. This changes when one day, Jackie phones him to let him know that Rosie Daly’s old suitcase was found in a derelict home in the Faithful Place tenement. Over the years, he has never returned to his dysfunctional, impoverished family, and the only one of his four siblings he has kept in contact with is his youngest, Jackie. He chose to continue his escape without her, taking the ferry to London and finding a better life for himself. That night when he was 19, Mackey had waited for his girlfriend Rosie Daly to meet him at hill over his neighborhood, but she never showed up. I got to feel the riptide pull of my life spinning around me, one winter night, while I waited in the dark at the top of Faithful Place (1). I got to see one of face to face, and recognize it for what it was. In the book’s introduction, Mackey reflects on this moment:
Frank Mackey, a seasoned detective with the Undercover Squad, is forced to revisit a turning point in his life from 22 years earlier when he was 19 and running away from home. There is a crime, there is a detective and the detective solves the crime, but in many ways this takes a secondary place to the detective’s own story. Faithful Place by Tana French, 2010 įaithful Place by Tana French is an unconventional mystery novel.
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