The Trespasser

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Penguin, 2016 - Fiction - 449 pages
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The bestselling novel by Tana French, author of The Witch Elm, 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" (Washington Post).

"Atmospheric and unputdownable." --People

In bestselling 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 catalogue-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 Antoinette's road. Aislinn's 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?

 

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User Review  - proustitute - LibraryThing

French’s Dublin Murder Squad novels are always powerful, but there was something darker and more incisive about The Trespasser that made me thankful I’d taken a long, slow journey through the six in ... Read full review

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User Review  - N.W.Moors - LibraryThing

The Trespasser is an intricately plotted murder mystery told by an unreliable narrator. Antoinette and her partner, Steve, are called to investigate the murder of a young woman. They usually get ... Read full review

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
3
Section 3
33
Section 4
63
Section 5
82
Section 6
127
Section 7
144
Section 8
161
Section 12
246
Section 13
260
Section 14
294
Section 15
316
Section 16
335
Section 17
370
Section 18
407
Section 19
432

Section 9
179
Section 10
199
Section 11
228
Section 20
451
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About the author (2016)

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.

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