The Trespasser
The epic conclusion to one of the greatest contemporary crime series in the world
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THE MASTERFUL RICHARD & JUDY PICK, FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
WINNER OF THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS CRIME FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
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You can beat one killer. Beating your own squad is a different story . . .
Being on the Dublin Murder squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed. Her working life is a stream of thankless cases and harassment. Antoinette is tough, but she's getting close to the breaking point.
Her latest case looks like a lovers' quarrel gone bad. Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty and lying dead next to a table set for a romantic dinner. There's nothing unusual about her - except that Antoinette has seen her somewhere before.
And her death won't stay neat. Other detectives want her to arrest Aislinn's boyfriend, fast. There's a shadowy figure at the end of Antoinette's road. And everything they find out about Aislinn takes her further from the simple woman 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 the case that will make her career - or break it?
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Praise for the talismanic Tana French and her novels
'I can do you no greater favour in life than recommending that you read her books' GUARDIAN
'The most interesting, the most important crime novelist to emerge in the last ten years' WASHINGTON POST
'The most breathtakingly brilliant and close-to-perfect thriller I've read for a long time' SOPHIE HANNAH
'I'm a big fan of Tana French' IAN RANKIN
'This is a tour de force of suspense and storytelling. Comes closer to perfection than anything I've read in the last decade' SARAH HILARY
'French offers a masterclass in unreliability' SUNDAY TIMES
'An audacious departure for this immensely talented author . . . not to be missed' NEW YORK TIMES
'A wonderfully assured and beautifully written debut novel' IRISH INDEPENDENT
'I didn't want it to end' HARRIET TYCE
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Det. Antoinette Conway takes center stage in Edgar-winner French's sharp but shakily paced sixth Dublin Murder Squad novel (after 2014's The Secret Place). When Aislinn Murray, a young woman just coming into her own, is found in her picture-perfect apartment with the back of her head smashed in, the killer appears to be her new boyfriend, Rory Fallon, who was due to come over for dinner the evening of her murder. But that's too easy for the suspicious Conway, whose hackles are raised when a more experienced detective takes an interest in the case and wants Rory charged. In several tense interrogation scenes, Rory's sweat practically drips off the page, and it's obvious why Conway, the only woman on the squad, is so good at her job. French is less adept than usual, however, in weaving in her main characters' backstories. The underlying themes of loyalty and how far one should go to protect a person are what makes this entry worthy of French's prodigious talents, though Conway isn't her best conduit.
