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

French, Tana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1444755625 ISBN 13: 9781444755626

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2016

Synopsis

'Contains the most tense and serpentine interrogation scenes outside of John Le Carré' -
Guardian

This is the case she imagined. Precision-cut and savage, lithe and momentous.

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. All she and her partner have to do is track down Lover Boy and bring him in. Then it'll be back to business as usual, watching from a distance as the real detectives go up against the psychopaths. Except when Antoinette takes a good look at the victim's face, she realises she's seen her somewhere before. And suddenly the conviction that there's a different answer takes her breath away.

About this title

About the Author

Tana French grew up in Ireland, Italy, the United States and Malawi. She is the author of In the Woods (winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and Barry awards for Best First Novel), The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbour (winner of the LA Times prize for Best Mystery/Thriller) and The Secret Place. She lives in Dublin with her husband and two children. She keeps a website at www.tanafrench.com

From the Back Cover

The Trespasser

The case that will make Detective Antoinette Conway's murder squad career. Or break it.

Praise for Tana French

'Classic in the making . . . The Secret Place is at least as good as Donna Tartt's The Secret History and every bit as well written' The Sunday Times

'Tana French just gets better and better' Observer

'Whenever someone asks me to name today's top suspense novelists, my short list always includes Tana French. French is such a gorgeous writer: she's a poet of mood and a master builder of plots' Washington Post

'A winning combination of intricate plotting and psychological depth' Guardian

'The undisputed queen of Irish crime fiction' Sunday Independent

'Incandescent' Stephen King

From the Inside Flap

There's the murder squad you set your sights on, back at the beginning of your career: the one where you spend your day playing knife-edge mind-games with psychopathic geniuses, knowing that one wrong blink could mean the difference between victory and another dead body.

And there's the one you actually work on, when you're the squad pariah. The night shifts. The vicious jabs and the pranks that go too far. Processing scumbags and matching witness statements, sifting the dregs for the case that might get you closer to where you want to be.

Tonight's case isn't it. Uniforms call it in as a slam-dunk domestic. All DI Antoinette Conway and her partner Stephen Moran have to do is track down Lover Boy and bring him in. Then it'll be back to business as usual, watching from a distance as the real Ds go up against the psychopaths. Except when Conway takes a good look at the victim's face, she realises she's seen her somewhere before. And suddenly the conviction that there's a different answer takes her breath away.

This is the case she imagined. Precision-cut and savage, lithe and momentous.

But you can beat one killer. Beating your own squad is a whole other thing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1444755625
• ISBN 13: 9781444755626
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480