Despite the fairly good plot idea, I could not really make friends with "Faithful Place", because unfortunately there is only so teeming with clichés. It begins with the main character: Type daring daredevil, always a cool spell on his lips. With superior and regulations he is usually at loggerheads, but of course he is smarter and has a better nose than its stuffy colleagues and everyone likes determined on their own. In women he succeeds, but with relationships he has long out of luck. He is actually a nice guy. Proof: An ex-wife, with whom he still maintains some semblance of friendly contact, and a super cute child he sees too rarely for the course, but he would do anything. Frank Mackey is a typical representative of detectives / officers / agents, which are regularly encountered in (rather bad) voltage novels.
Even when setting is applied thickly: Faithful Place combines in a single Straßenzug everything we tend to imagine as 'problem area': unemployment, crime, domestic violence, alcoholism, vociferous arguments and fights in the neighborhood. Such areas there are actually, but it's not very original, to settle a crime just as in a picture book example of a deprived area. The whole thing is underscored by the stresses (post-) casual language. You have to look far, at least in the dialogs until you come across a grammatically and syntactically correct sentence halfway. Here's a rough dialect is often implemented spoken language, generously interspersed with curses and other colloquialisms. Something in between is refreshing and contributes to the authenticity, but in the ground in which it occurs here, it sucks mightily. Probably so shall also the last readers are indoctrinated that he is very, very poorly educated to do with a film.
The linguistic contrast program will be presented at Frank's access to his daughter. To ensure that every learns that he is a loving father, he never speaks it - not once - with their own name, but exclusively used more or less silly pet name: mainly 'sweetie', 'sweetheart' and 'chickadee', isolated 'spider monkey', 'kiddo' and 'honey bunch ". Presumably, one should find a reader kind of cute. I found it in the crowd just stupid. No father speaks so with his daughter. No 9-year-old girl would be this sweet Gesäusel endure constantly and without protest about.
After all: The case of the decades unknown fate of Rosie is quite interesting. I liked the idea of a crime that has remained undetected for decades, and is therefore rolled up with a great temporal distance, quite well-liked. Although I found this detective story is not all that exciting, but I was curious and excited about the resolution. Quite pleased I am with the not, because at some point it is predictable, but this part of the novel is very well entertained me broadly.
Conclusion: "Faithful Place" was not really my cup of tea. There I was never excited, often annoyed and only partially entertained. The first two novels of the author (in the Woods. And Likeness) I liked much better.
