The Keeper

Tana French

Apr 2026 · Random House

About this eBook

A gripping new mystery from the million-copy-bestselling author Tana French

On a cold night in a remote Irish village, a girl goes missing.

Sweet, loving Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the local big shot. Instead, she’s dead in the river.

In a place like this, her death isn’t simple. It comes wrapped in generations-old grudges and power struggles, and it splits the townland in two. Retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper has friends here now and he owes them loyalty, but his fiancée Lena wants nothing to do with Ardnakelty’s tangles. As the feud becomes more vicious, their settled peace starts to crack apart. And when they uncover a scheme that casts a new light on Rachel’s death and threatens the whole village, they find themselves in the firing line.
PRAISE FOR TANA FRENCH
‘Incandescent’ Stephen King
‘Mesmerising’ Gillian Flynn
‘Masterful’ Chris Whitaker
‘If you haven’t read Tana French yet, I really highly recommend that you do’ Harlan Coben
‘Among the first rank of great literary novelists’ Observer
'Crime fiction's biggest contemporary star' Guardian

Ratings and reviews

When a book makes you laugh and makes you cry then you have found something special..beyond the storylines..a capture of the everyman, timeless and true.

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About the author

Tana French is the Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling author of In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbour, The Secret Place, The Trespasser and The Wych Elm. Her books have won awards including the Edgar, Anthony, Barry and Macavity awards, the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Best Crime Fiction. She grew up in Ireland, Italy, the US and Malawi, and trained as an actor at Trinity College Dublin. She lives in Dublin with her family.