

The plot picks up when, two decades later, Frank receives startling news. Determined to escape his dysfunctional family and the prison that was Faithful Place, he left regardless, albeit brokenhearted. After finding a note inside the home, the teenager was convinced that Rosie Daly must have changed her mind. When 19-year-old Frank Mackey was left waiting outside of an abandoned house one fateful night, he believed that his lover backed out on their plans of elopement.

Each follows a case in the heart of Ireland, with overlapping, complex characters that get involved in cases tied to their pasts. It is the third installment of French's loosely related "Dublin Murder Squad" series. The book is set in Dublin, featuring undercover detective Frank Mackey, who was a supporting character in French's previous novel, The Likeness. Faithful Place is a 2010 crime novel by Tana French.
