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  • The Trespasser

  • Dublin Murder Squad 6
  • By: Tana French
  • Narrated by: Hilda Fay
  • Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (457 ratings)
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The Trespasser

By: Tana French
Narrated by: Hilda Fay
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Summary

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, but gradually they realise there's more going on: someone on their own squad is trying to push them towards the obvious solution, away from nagging questions.

They have to work out whether this is just an escalation in the drive to get rid of her - or whether there's something deeper and darker going on.

©2016 Tana French (P)2016 Hodder & Stoughton

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Redrum, not in lipstick but in blood, said Rellik


Tana French is on fire, this is a book driven by character and inner struggles, suppositions that kill, assumptions that destroy, preset ideas that derail entire lives; plot is secondary to feelings and character to dialog and atmosphere.

Four Hundred and eighty pages devoured in two days, and now I will have a hard time finding a book as interesting and absorbing as this.

Antoinette Conway the hard woman of irish detectives is such a breath of fresh air, she takes no prisoners and expects no mercy, but she is human like few characters are.

Loved this book, it is intricate and moves fast through all the gear changes and psychological wars, to snare to capture the prey that always hides in denial of their crime, and it does it all without fetishist or sadomasochistic murders, or cardboard victims, it builds real interesting people that could live next door or at least in Dublin.

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Variably engaging

This is convoluted detective novel with false trails and side stories. The main character is Antoinette Conway: a tough detective up against the problems of being a woman in a male-dominated profession. She is unpopular with her colleagues who engage in silly pranks or worse try to jeopardise her work. Her only ally, and professional partner, is detective Steve Moran with whom she strives to get to the truth about a death that at first seems to be an accident but turns out to be murder. Investigations into the female victim’s life reveals several lines of enquiry and possible suspects.

I found the narrative varied in pace and interest. The best scenes are those of interviewing suspects that seem almost in real-time and ably demonstrate interrogation techniques, but the book flags at times with long meandering conversations and side issues. Though categorized as a detective novel, it is just as much about human relationships and what drives behaviour.

The narrator gives Antoinette a strong, gravelly Irish accent that is little different from the male characters and so I often couldn’t tell who was speaking and so found the dialogue confusing at times.

I’ve read four of the author’s other books and think, for example, Broken Harbour and Faithful Places are superior.

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Gripping stuff!

Gosh such a good listen! Avoids so many pitfalls of a tale so reliant on dialogue . The two detectives are brilliant, a woman so tough she'll rust and a likeable junior partner! Great. I don't do many reviews, only for 5 star listens.

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Astounding reader and a story that doesn't let up in the final quarter

Hilda Fay'a performance has amazing force and changes of colour.
The story is complex, absorbing and unlike most crime stories, isn't a let down in the final quarter.

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Tense, and detailed and different

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

This book worked excellently as an audio book, helped by a terrific reading by Hilda Fay.
A slow burning investigation unfolding through a series of taut interviews, and episodes of paranoiac work situations.
Detailed character portrayals
Several twists.
A good listen

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Good whodunnit set in Dublin

If you prefer your detective stories without sadistic killing described in graphic detail then this is a good choice.
The whole story takes place over a week although you feel like you've been in the head of Antonette, the Detective In charge of the murder of a young woman for much longer.
She's not very likeable and the Dublin accent can jar but there are twists enough to keep you listening right to the end.

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Fabulous

A great well written story showing the twists and turns of an investigation. Superb narration

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Absolutely terrific. Listened non-stop. Tana French is an excellent author, characters are wonderfully drawn, the plot intricate, clever, never letting up. Very very good.

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great narration

loved this book so much I've listened to it twice ...Hilda Fay is a brilliant narrator I wish I could find more books she narrates

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Extremely good - compelling, sophisticated

An amazing return to form for Tana French. Her best book yet. Thoroughly enjoyed it and was sorry when it ended. Fascinating characters and a driving plot. Formidable as a crime story but also as a superb novel. Highly recommended.

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