The Trespasser: A Novel

Tana French

Oct 2016 · Dublin Murder Squad Book 6 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

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?

Ratings and reviews

These books are strangely engrossing and disappointing at the same time. They're easy enough to read and get well interested into, but the endings are always just blah. These books are like a failed sneeze. All the crazy build up and then it just falls flat. I've read every single one, and only maybe 2 out of all them had a semi clean ending. If you don't like murky endings perhaps these books aren't for you.

I loved her earlier books and missed the descriptions of the characters' surroundings. I'm a visual person and want to imagine the house, the woods and all. Too much court procedure and police surroundings for me. Like many other writers. Let's go outside again, Tana!

Another amazing story from Tana French. Edge of the seat read. Incredible characters, real and down to earth. Many twists and turns. Highly recommend, I have her next book and will start that next.

About the author

Tana French is also the author of In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbor and The Secret Place. Her books have won awards including the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards, the Los Angeles Times Award for Best Mystery/Thriller, and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction. She lives in Dublin with her family.