Faithful Place

A Novel (Dublin Murder Squad, #3)

Hardcover, 400 pages

English language

Published Nov. 8, 2010 by Viking.

ISBN:
9780670021871
OCLC Number:
460059806

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Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was nineteen, growing up poor in Dublin's inner city and living crammed into a small flat with his family on Faithful Place. But he had his sights set on a lot more. He and his girl, Rosie Daly, were all set to run away to London together, get married, get good jobs, break away from factory work and poverty and their old lives.

But on the winter night when they were supposed to leave, Rosie didn't show. Frank took it for granted that she'd given him the brush-off--probably because of his alcoholic father, nutcase mother, and generally dysfunctional family. H never went home again.

Neither did Rosie. Everyone thought she had gone to England on her own and was over there living a shiny new life. Then, twenty-two years later, Rosie's suitcase shows up behind a fireplace in a derelict house on Faithful Place, and …

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Subjects

  • Missing persons -- Fiction
  • First loves -- Fiction
  • Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction