



Many of her characters carry firearms, but words – blunt as a shovel, sharp as a stiletto – are often the deadliest weapons in her Ireland-based mystery novels.įrench grounds her books in the fictional Dublin Murder Squad but has, so far, changed up her protagonist with each new installment. That early career choice may partly account for her unerring facility with dialogue and deep understanding of dramatic structure. A Vermont native who grew up in Ireland, Italy, Malawi and the United States, French trained as an actor at Trinity College in Dublin.
