

And everything they find out about Aislinn takes her further from the glossy, passive doll she seemed to be.Īntoinette knows the harassment has turned her paranoid, but she can’t tell just how far gone she is.

Aislinnʼs friend is hinting that she knew Aislinn was in danger. Tana French is on fire, this is a book driven by character and inner struggles, suppositions that kill, assumptions that. I thought the narration by Hilda Fay was superb - her voice really suited the story. There’s a shadowy figure at the end of Antoinetteʼs road. What made the experience of listening to The Trespasser the most enjoyable The story is riveting, and the characters are engaging. Other detectives are trying to push Antoinette and Steve into arresting Aislinn’s boyfriend, fast. There’s nothing unusual about her-except that Antoinette’s seen her somewhere before.Īnd that her death won’t stay in its neat by-numbers box. Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty, groomed-to-a-shine, and dead in her catalog-perfect living room, next to a table set for a romantic dinner. Their new case looks like yet another by-the-numbers lovers’ quarrel gone bad. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she’s getting close to the breaking point. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment.

Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she’s there. In bestselling author 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. “Atmospheric and unputdownable.” - People She “inspires cultic devotion in readers” ( The New Yorker) and is “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” ( The Washington Post). The bestselling novel by Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher, is “required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting” ( The New York Times).
