Where to Start with Tana French
- Best entry point → In the Woods
- What fans keep coming back to → The Likeness
- Highest rated by listeners → Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad #3)
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The Likeness
Dublin Murder Squad • Book 2
by Tana French
Narrated by Heather O'Neill
★ 4.35 ABR Score (187.7K ratings)★ 4.06 Goodreads (181.9K) ★ 4.52 Audible (5.8K)22h 17m listening time • Released 2018 -
Faithful Place
Dublin Murder Squad • Book 3
by Tana French
Narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds
★ 4.31 ABR Score (137.7K ratings)★ 4 Goodreads (133.4K) ★ 4.53 Audible (4.3K)16h 1m listening time • Released 2018Tim Gerard Reynolds captures the raw Dublin vernacular and emotional devastation of French's third novel with such precision that you'll forget you're listening. The slow-burn mystery rewards patient ears with one of crime fiction's most gut-wrenching character studies.
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The Trespasser
Dublin Murder Squad • Book 6
by Tana French
Narrated by Hilda Fay
★ 4.25 ABR Score (108.3K ratings)★ 3.99 Goodreads (97.4K) ★ 4.44 Audible (10.9K)20h 6m listening time • Released 2016 -
Broken Harbor
Dublin Murder Squad • Book 4
by Tana French
Narrated by Stephen Hogan
★ 4.24 ABR Score (113.3K ratings)★ 3.95 Goodreads (110.9K) ★ 4.52 Audible (2.5K)19h 54m listening time • Released 2019 -
The Secret Place
Dublin Murder Squad • Book 5
by Tana French
Narrated by Stephen Hogan, Lara Hutchinson
★ 3.95 ABR Score (101.1K ratings)★ 3.85 Goodreads (95.2K) ★ 4.23 Audible (5.9K)20h 35m listening time • Released 2014 -
In the Woods
Dublin Murder Squad • Book 1
by Tana French
Narrated by Steven Crossley
★ 3.88 ABR Score (460.6K ratings)★ 3.78 Goodreads (442.3K) ★ 4.11 Audible (18.3K)20h 24m listening time • Released 2007French's Dublin Murder Squad debut is as literary as crime fiction gets — an evocative, unreliable narrator investigating a case eerily connected to his own buried past.
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The Witch Elm
Dublin Murder Squad
by Tana French
Narrated by Paul Nugent
★ 3.45 ABR Score (119.5K ratings)★ 3.58 Goodreads (110.9K) ★ 3.85 Audible (8.7K)22h 7m listening time • Released 2018
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