Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TANA FRENCH: I’d been thinking a lot about the connection between luck and empathy. If you’re too lucky, it can be very easy to ...

French gives us an exclusive preview of The Searcher, the next evocative mystery from the master behind The Dublin Murder Squad and The Witch Elm. Indeed, the slow-burning Witch Elm found the ...

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The title tree in “The Witch Elm,” Irish writer Tana French’s best and most intricately nuanced novel yet, is a mysterious character in its own right. Stately, 200 years old and burned into the ...

Tana French could not have predicted Brett M. Kavanaugh, so it’s either an extraordinary coincidence or an indictment of the world we live in that her newest book, published within a week of his ...

Tana French talks about how she got started, her latest book, and the impact of Ireland’s economic boom and collapse. Plus, Jia Tolentino and Rivka Galchen on children’s books that shaped their lives.

When it comes to literary suspense, can a reader ever have too much of a good thing? That’s the question that kept running through my mind all the while I was reading . . . and reading . . . “The ...