The witch elm review7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Toby is a 28-year-old public relations exec who has always thought of himself as a lucky fellow until a brutal attack in his home fractures his skull and his sense of self. Having written six layered police procedurals featuring the Dublin Murder Squad, French now switches the perspective from police to crime victim. That the skeleton isn’t discovered until a third of the way through the 500-page novel testifies to French’s talent at immersing readers in mysteries that go beyond those of old bones. Who is it? How long has it been there? And what does it have to do with Toby, the nice-guy narrator of Tana French’s intricate and beguiling stand-alone mystery, “The Witch Elm”? ![]() ![]() But there’s an actual skeleton in the trunk of an old wych elm tree at the Hennessey family home in Dublin. Most people who talk of skeletons in family trees are speaking metaphorically. ![]()
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