The Trespasser

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Dublin Murder Squad submitted by amandaberry on August 27, 2017, 9:14am I really like this Dublin Murder Squad series. This latest installment is excellent - better than its immediate predecessors. Conway and Moran make a great team and while some of the written dialect/accent is a little tough for American readers, the story moves quickly and the mystery is tight.

Crackling good submitted by mandevil on February 1, 2019, 10:19am Takes us inside Conway's world view. Fascinating.

Conway and Moran are the DMS dream team submitted by bec on June 19, 2019, 8:22am One of the best in a reliably excellent series. Conway and Moran find themselves in way over their heads on a case that at first glance looks utterly dull- French proceeds to construct possible versions of the murder and pick them apart until landing on the truth. The ending shakes up the DMS world and left me really, really hoping for more books.

Engrossing submitted by alotofaxolotl on August 22, 2019, 8:34pm This was the first book I had read by Tana French. Reading it felt like riding a bull in a rodeo or maybe a rollercoaster inside a dark mountain. It was exciting and a bit rough. The writing is skillful. I was definitely in Antoinette Conway's shoes and that was a grueling emotional experience. Antoinette has a tough shell. The reader will empathize with her while also wishing that she would open up a little bit. I highly recommend it and will be reading more of Tana French's works.

A Bloated Novel submitted by cdunlop on March 11, 2023, 4:58pm Tana French sure knows how to balloon what should have been a novella into a bloated novel: Identify a murder suspect, spin out interminable theories about his motivation, toss in numerous dialogues featuring intra-office bickering and resentment of authority, add some false leads, and include lots of lengthy interviews with suspects and sources. Once this project gets underway, the reader is set up to anticipate that the initial suspect identification may not be correct (as it apparently isn't).

Dublin detectives Antoinette Conway and her partner, Steve Moran, are well developed characters, but their interactions gradually become quite tiresome. The author seems determined to demonstrate that a female police officer can have a mouth as foul as that of any male colleague.