The Trespasser: A Novel (Dublin Murder Squad)

by Tana French

The New York Times bestselling novel by Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Hunter, is “required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting” (The New York Times). She “inspires cultic devotion in readers” (The New Yorker) and is “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” (The Washington Post).

“Atmospheric and unputdownable.” —People 


In bestselling author Tana French’s newest “tour de force” (The New York Times), being on the Murder Squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she’s there. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she’s getting close to the breaking point. 
 
Their new case looks like yet another by-the-numbers lovers’ quarrel gone bad. Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty, groomed-to-a-shine, and dead in her catalog-perfect living room, next to a table set for a romantic dinner. There’s nothing unusual about her—except that Antoinette’s seen her somewhere before.
 
And that her death won’t stay in its neat by-numbers box. Other detectives are trying to push Antoinette and Steve into arresting Aislinn’s boyfriend, fast. There’s a shadowy figure at the end of Antoinetteʼs road. Aislinnʼs friend is hinting that she knew Aislinn was in danger. And everything they find out about Aislinn takes her further from the glossy, passive doll she seemed to be.
 
Antoinette knows the harassment has turned her paranoid, but she can’t tell just how far gone she is. Is this case another step in the campaign to force her off the squad, or are there darker currents flowing beneath its polished surface?

• ISBN10: 0143110381
• ISBN13: 9780143110385
• Publish Date: 8 August 2017 (first published 22 September 2016)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Imprint: Penguin USA
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 464
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780143110385

Reviews

[Whitney @ First Impressions Reviews]

Reasons to Trespass on The Trespasser

• Not since Cassie Maddox  in The Likeness have we had a female detective in the Dublin Murder Squad series and Tana French delivers with Antoinette Conway.  She is smart, snappy, and doesn't take anyone's crap.  She was just what I had been hoping for.


• Never fear, we still have Stephen Moran, a constant in two other books in the series.  I've taken a shine to him.  He's quite and caring but underneath it he means business.


• The plot was original with a murder investigation that held more depth that the "the husband did it" motive which has become so common these days.


• Because it was not a rehashed plot, The Trespasser kept me on my toes until the very end, and like any good book I was reading at top speed.


• The Trespasser is a book you can sink your teeth into and come out satisfied.  It is cliché to say Tana French has done it again but she has.  She has taken her signature twisted procedural and turned it on it's head.

This review was originally posted on First Impressions Reviews