“Here,” Cal says, holding out the piece of wood and a sheet of sand‑ paper. The kid pushes through the hedge and stands there watching, hands in the pockets of his hoodie. This time he doesn’t need to play any games.
He’s finishing up the first one, chiseling the last of the dado that will slot it snugly into place, when he hears twigs cracking. Cal lays the desk on its back on a drop sheet and takes photos of the whole contraption on his phone before he carefully works the broken pieces free, loosening old glue with a scalpel blade, and starts measuring them for replacements. The pieces of wood that make them up are delicate, dadoed together in an intricate jigsaw, and several of them are broken. He finished off the drawer runners last time, so he’s moving on to the nest of cubbyholes inside the drop front. Since the day has brightened up after a rainy start, Cal and his desk are back out in the garden. But when he is persuaded by a local boy to find his missing brother, Cal uncovers layers of secrets and darkness in this picturesque town that he could never have imagined. When ex-Chicago cop Cal Hooper moves to a charming Irish village, he hopes to begin the next chapter of his life in peace. Similarly, after a drunken night at the pub, Cal senses that locals such as his friendly neighbor Mart Lavin are also hinting that he should mind his own business and leave the Brendan Reddy matter alone.The following is an exclusive excerpt from The Searcher, by Tana French. However, when Cal interviews Brendan’s friends and ex-girlfriend, he begins to sense that they know more than they tell him and were threatened to keep quiet. He also finds that his neighbors seem astonishingly unconcerned about missing 19-year-old Brendan. He finds that the Reddy family, who are headed by an absentee father and a mother who is despised for being poor, are looked down upon and excluded by the locals. Cal hesitates to get involved with a new case, especially on unfamiliar turf, but he eventually acquiesces. Despite Cal’s wish to conceal the knowledge, Trey is aware that Cal was a former cop, and he wants him to help find his brother Brendan, who disappeared six months earlier. However, his spy turns out to be the determined 13-year-old Trey Reddy. At first, when Cal realizes that he is being watched, he tries to ignore the matter.
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