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Faithful Place by Tana French (2010)

When Frank Mackey was 19 years old he and his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, planned to run away from their dysfunctional families and their lives in Dublin to build a life together in England. Rosie never shows on the night they plan to leave. Frank waits through the night before he finds a note from Rosie. Assuming that she has changed her mind and has decided to go to England without him, he waits until morning and then leaves his neighborhood for good.

Twenty-two years later, Frank is an undercover cop who keeps in minimal contact with the hard-drinking family that he still blames for driving away his one true love. Then he gets a call from his sister saying that Rosie's suitcase, packed with care in the days before they were to run away, has been found in an abandoned house in his old neighborhood. Frank reluctantly returns to try to understand what happened on that night. Did Rosie really go on to England alone or did someone stop her before she could meet Frank?

This wonderfully written book will draw you in immediately. Even if you manage to guess what happened all those years ago, the motivations of the characters are both shocking and completely realistic.

Faithful Place is available at Chicopee Public Library in the New Fiction section.