Detective Frank Mackey is divorced and estranged from his birth family. His sister, Jackie, has called him back to Dublin when Rosie Daly's suitcase is found in an abandoned house on Faithful Place, the same street on which his parents still live. Frank and Rosie had planned to run away to London and get married. Frank wanted nothing to do with his family and his out-of-work, abusive, hard-drinking father. The night they were to leave, Rosie disappears and Frank thinks she has left without him. When the body in the basement is ID'd as Rosie, Frank knows that she did not leave him. She was murdered. When he comes back home to unofficially investigate, his younger brother, Kevin falls from an upper story of the same building. Was he murdered also? " Immersing listeners in the atmosphere of inner-city Dublin, Faithful Place, is a tale of soured dreams, the relentless grip of one's past" and the inevitable pull of family. Tim Gerard Reynold's Irish inflections greatly enhance the story. (Although the language is a bit harsh!!)
Anthony Award Nominee for Best Novel 2011
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