![]() As the garden is dug up and destroyed, the Hennessey family history and relationships are similarly turned inside out in the search for answers.įans of the Murder Squad novels might miss that sharp evocation of the dynamics between police partners and colleagues, the compelling counterpoint between the case and the detective's own usually falling-apart life. ![]() ![]() When Hugo brings the family together to discuss the future of the house, his great-nephew makes a gruesome discovery: a skull, hidden in the hollow of the enormous wych elm. The cousins are now in their twenties and Uncle Hugo is dying of brain cancer. They spent their summers at the house together as children, overseen by their benign Uncle Hugo who has lived there forever. The garden belongs to a rambling Victorian pile on the outskirts of Dublin affectionately known as "The Ivy House" by the narrator and his cousins, Susanna and Leon. The Wych Elm takes the idea of the family "skeleton in the closet" and makes it shockingly literal: not an actual closet, in this case, but an ancient tree at the bottom of an overgrown garden. In Tana French's novel, a skull is found in the hollow of a wych elm. ![]()
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