Katie Tallo has been an award-winning screenwriter and director for more than two decades. In 2012, Katie was inspired to begin writing novels.Dark August is her debut novel.
At CrimeReads, Tallo tagged ten "terrific novels featuring some dark and stormy journeys back home," including:
Faithful Place by Tana FrenchRead about the other entries on the list.
In this gripping thriller from Tana French, her main character, Frank Mackey, returns to Dublin and the dead end street calledFaithful Place where he grew up. He left years earlier after his first love, Rosie, failed to show up for their planned elopement to London. A couple of decades later, Frank’s a detective and Rosie’s suitcase mysteriously turns up in an abandoned house on Faithful Place. Another dysfunctional family, another unresolved mystery and another reluctant hometown return by a protagonist hell-bent on finding out the truth – all of which makes this novel both heart-wrenching and nail-biting.
--Marshal Zeringue
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