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The Trespasser

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

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The Trespasser

By: Tana French
Narrated by: Hilda Fay
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 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, but gradually they realise there's more going on: someone on their own squad is trying to push them towards the obvious solution, away from nagging questions. They have to work out whether this is just an escalation in the drive to get rid of her - or whether there's something deeper and darker going on.

(P) 2016 Penguin Random House LLC©2016 Tana French Crime Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Murder

Critic Reviews

First-rate . . . her procedural thoroughness takes her deeper and deeper into a wholly convincing portrayal of Dublin police. (David Hare)
Best Crime Title of the Year
French's gripping sixth novel checks every box from prose to plotting to suspense to characterisation. I'm working my way through the Dublin Murder Squad series and they're stellar.
Perfect winter reading. Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series are up there with the most read on our 50 book challenge discussions. This is no surprise since her books offer readers compelling, intelligent thrillers with brilliant characters - including the tough and foul-mouthed detective, Antoinette Conway, the narrator of this twisty and thrilling story.
This is crime writing at its most sublime: spell-binding story-telling with a heroine to treasure in Detective Antoinette Conway . . . Author Tana French's reputation has been growing steadily in recent years and she is now at her peak, as this superb novel underlines.
A clever and well-crafted read.
Tana French's thrillers are consistently good - well-plotted, intelligent, with memorable characters - and her latest, THE TRESPASSER, does not disappoint.
Thrillers are a dime a dozen. The trick is to find something that actually sticks to the ribs. This fall will bring a new release from one of the best crime writers working today, Tana French. But that book, The Trespasser, is actually her sixth. She has five novels you can buy right now, though you should read them in the order in which they were published, starting with In the Woods. I can do you no greater favour in life than recommending that you read her books.
A gnarly, absorbing read, and a finely tuned slice of wintry gloom from one the best thriller writers we have.
The Trespasser contains the most tense and serpentine interrogation scenes outside of John Le Carré . . . Shows French to be a one-off phenomenon. (Mark Lawson)
French and The Trespasser merit all the praise we can heap on them. If 2016 has a better crime thriller to offer, I've not yet read it.
Its single voice is brilliantly sustained . . . and the book is a clever and intriguing experiment - the default technique of the psychological thriller, first-person female narration, deployed instead in a procedural whodunit.
A beautifully wrought murder mystery and investigation into what it means to be a murder detective.
Another gripping tale, beautifully told, by a woman at the top of her game.
Taut, twisty, packed with all-too believable characters and rattles along at breakneck speed.
The narrator this time is the wonderfully foul-mouthed, bad-tempered detective Antoinette Conway. And her narrative voice proves to be just as entertaining as I'd hoped, with a wonderfully salty and sometimes cruel sense of humour . . . At last it looks like a police procedural series from this side of the Atlantic can rival the best of the Americans.
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Loved it. Full of unexpected twists and turns, great plot. Fantastic narrator too. One of the best!

Absolutely brilliant!

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I have been entranced by Tana French, and this is the best. Her characters (especially the two protagonist detective partners) are sublime, the dialogue as if French was on the Squad, and the lilting gorgeous performance by Hilda Fay made this the book of the year for me, addicted to the dramatic arc as the trajectory flows to the end. Just lovely.

A real pearler

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Loved the depth and development of the characters and story. Favourite Tana French so far.

great stuff

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Another good story but could have been better with more editing. Just a bit too long.

Good Story

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Just brilliant. Couldn’t put it down. A true suspense whodunit from wo to go. Enjoy.

Keeps you guessing the whole way

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