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In The Hunter, Cal Hooper goes to the West of Ireland, and finds himself in a whole new world.

Emily Bazelon: You live in Dublin, and you are best known for several books you wrote about the city’s murder squad. Why did you decide to move your setting and your action to, this village of Ardnakelty, a very different setting than Dublin.

Tana French: What happened was, I suddenly discovered the Western genre a few years back. Somehow, I’d never read them anywhere. They just didn’t sound like my kind of thing. And then someone whose taste I trust said to me, “you have got to read.” So, I’m like, okay. And I did, and I loved it. It’s an amazing book. And I read others. I read, you know,. I thought they were amazing and they had so many tropes in them, but I thought it would fit really well onto the west of Ireland.

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