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

French; Tana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444755668 ISBN 13: 9781444755664

Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks, 2017

Synopsis

The masterful Richard & Judy pick, from the Sunday Times bestselling author.Winner of the Irish Book Awards Crime Fiction Book of the Year.'A TRULY GREAT WRITER' Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl'ONE OF THE BEST CRIME WRITERS WORKING TODAY' GuardianYou can beat one killer. Beating your own squad is a whole other thing. 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. The new case looks like a regular 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? 'ONE OF THE BEST THRILLER WRITERS WE HAVE' Observer

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Review

First-rate . . . her procedural thoroughness takes her deeper and deeper into a wholly convincing portrayal of Dublin police. (David Hare Guardian)

Best Crime Title of the Year (Daily Mail)

The narrator this time is the wonderfully foul-mouthed, bad-tempered detective Antoinette Conway. And her narrative voice proves to be just as entertaining as I'd hoped, with a wonderfully salty and sometimes cruel sense of humour . . . At last it looks like a police procedural series from this side of the Atlantic can rival the best of the Americans. (Sunday Express)

I'm a huge fan of hers and have read all her novels. (Cecilia Ahern The Lady)

Perfect winter reading. Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series are up there with the most read on our 50 book challenge discussions. This is no surprise since her books offer readers compelling, intelligent thrillers with brilliant characters - including the tough and foul-mouthed detective, Antoinette Conway, the narrator of this twisty and thrilling story. (Mumsnet Best books for Christmas)

One of the best crime writers working today, Tana French . . . I can do you no greater favour in life than recommending that you read her books. (Guardian.com)

Its single voice is brilliantly sustained over 450 pages, and the book is a clever and intriguing experiment - the default technique of the psychological thriller, first-person female narration, deployed instead in a procedural whodunit. (Sunday Times)

French's gripping sixth novel checks every box from prose to plotting to suspense to characterisation. I'm working my way through the Dublin Murder Squad series and they're stellar. (Big Issue)

A beautifully wrought murder mystery and investigation into what it means to be a murder detective. (Mail on Sunday)

A gnarly, absorbing read, and a finely tuned slice of wintry gloom from one the best thriller writers we have. (Observer)

Book Description

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

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

A searing novel of psychological suspense from the multi-award-winning author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller In the Woods.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1444755668
• ISBN 13: 9781444755664
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480