RaveThe Globe and Mail...brilliant ... French takes the peculiarities of the family drama - secrets nesting inside each other like Matrioshka dolls - and weaves them around what is technically a murder mystery ... Although the story arc does finally provide the solution to the murder, that\'s really only the surface of this finely detailed, compelling and claustrophobic novel. Faithful Place grips the reader in its iron vise, like a dark childhood that won\'t release us until its inevitable, relentless conclusion has been reached.
