The Trespasser - Tana French (pub. Hodder)
By ireneann,
19 Apr 2017.
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April 2017
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.
Just a really quick line to tell you all that I've also read The Trespasser since I last posted a review (don't pay any attention to the last read header!). I was in no fit state to write a proper review with horrid family stuff going on, but it was a really good read.
There was a point somewhere in the middle that I was giving the book "that" look - you know the one where you don't quite understand where the plot is going. But once it got past one theory in particular, it really blossomed.
I do like Tana French's books though and I do always recommend them to people who haven't read her before. The Trespasser is no different. They're always good engrossing reads with plots that are engaging and interesting, keeping you turning page after page.
