The Trespasser: Dublin Murder Squad: 6. The gripping Richard & Judy Book Club 2017 thriller (Dublin Murder Squad)

by Tana French

'Contains the most tense and serpentine interrogation scenes outside of John Le Carré' -
Guardian

This is the case she imagined. Precision-cut and savage, lithe and momentous.

Antoinette Conway, the tough, abrasive detective from The Secret Place, is still on the Murder squad, but only just. She's partnered up with Stephen Moran now, and that's going well - but the rest of her working life isn't. Antoinette doesn't play well with others, and there's a vicious running campaign in the squad to get rid of her. She and Stephen pull a case that at first looks like a slam-dunk lovers' tiff. All she and her partner have to do is track down Lover Boy and bring him in. Then it'll be back to business as usual, watching from a distance as the real detectives go up against the psychopaths. Except when Antoinette takes a good look at the victim's face, she realises she's seen her somewhere before. And suddenly the conviction that there's a different answer takes her breath away.

• ISBN10: 1444755625
• ISBN13: 9781444755626
• Publish Date: 22 September 2016
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 5 March 2021
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 480
• Language: English

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