He spends the night talking to her and attempting to figure out what is wrong. She is clearly distraught, so Kennedy tells Curran to proceed without him while he takes Dina back to his apartment. However, Kennedy’s sister Dina shows up unannounced at the police headquarters in Dublin Castle. Kennedy and Curran plan to watch the observation nest for anyone coming or going in hopes of identifying the family’s stalker. In a neighboring house, detectives find a hideout complete with binoculars and a sleeping bag, indicating that someone had indeed been spying on the Spain family. Kennedy’s initial hunch is that the entire thing was a murder-suicide organized by Patrick, but then he starts to consider the fact that there might have been a stalker observing the family’s every move. In the attic, the detectives find financial documents revealing that the Spains’ fortune had declined significantly since Patrick had been laid off from his job six months prior. Jennifer had noticed small things around the house were going missing and suspected that someone was breaking in. Jennifer’s sister, Fiona, tells Kennedy that the Spains were a happy family. Kennedy and Curran head to Brianstown to begin their investigation Kennedy sends a team of detectives to search the home for the murder weapon while he interviews the neighbors.
Their family lived in Brianstown, formerly known as Broken Harbour, and was attacked in the middle of the night, with only Jennifer surviving the incident. Their first assignment together is known as the Spain case, which involves Jennifer and Patrick Spain, a married couple and their two young children.
The novel opens as Detective Mick ‘Scorcher’ Kennedy has just been assigned a new partner, Richie Curran. Irish novelist Tana French’s crime novel Broken Harbour (2012) is the fourth installment in the Dublin Murder Squad series.
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