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The Trespasser: Library Edition Preloaded Digital Audio Player – Unabridged, October 4, 2016

by Tana French (Author), Hilda Fay (Narrator)
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A brilliant new novel from the New York Times bestselling author, whom Gillian Flynn calls “mesmerizing” and Stephen King calls “incandescent.” Being on the Murder squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she's there. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she's getting close to the breaking point. Their new case looks like yet another by-the-numbers lovers' quarrel gone bad. Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty, groomed to a shine, and dead in her catalogue-perfect living room, next to a table set for a romantic dinner. There's nothing unusual about her—except that Antoinette's seen her somewhere before. And that her death won't stay in its neat by-numbers box. Other detectives are trying to push Antoinette and Steve into arresting Aislinn's boyfriend, fast. There's a shadowy figure at the end of Antoinette's road. Aislinn's friend is hinting that she knew Aislinn was in danger. And everything they find out about Aislinn takes her further from the glossy, passive doll 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 case another step in the campaign to force her off the squad, or are there darker currents flowing beneath its polished surface? From the Hardcover edition.

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Tana French is the author of In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbor, The Secret Place, and The Trespasser. Her books have won awards including the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards, the Los Angeles Times Award for Best Mystery/Thriller, and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction. She lives in Dublin with her family.

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Customers find the plot suspenseful and believable. They also praise the writing style as well-written and strong. Readers describe the book as brilliant, vintage French, and literary excellence. They find the characters compelling. However, some find the book boring and overly judgmental. Opinions are mixed on the pacing, with some finding it enjoyable and stands up well on its own, while others say it's slow going and too talky.

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446 customers mention "Plot"379 positive67 negative

Customers find the plot suspenseful, believable, and fascinating. They also say the author is incredible, and the book is accessible detective novels. Readers also mention that there are numerous possible suspects, each with a plausible motive.

"...The novel challenged me to think, not only about the solution to the murder, but also about the complexity of what makes people into what they are,..." Read more

"...Her characters, particularly the women, are fascinating, usually damaged, but intelligent, highly competent, confident and self-reflective...." Read more

"...They are consistently well written with startling reveals, compellingly human main characters, and answers that are never simple or happily ever..." Read more

"...The story starts out well and her plot development and dialog are ALWAYS impeccable...." Read more

385 customers mention "Writing style"280 positive105 negative

Customers find the writing style well-written, never stilted, and believable. They also describe the characters as human and not super-heroes. Readers also appreciate the poetic writing and unique descriptions of the emotional landscape. They say the book is a perfectly personal presentation of discovery, evidence, and revelations.

"...As with all French novels, the psychological edge is strong; here it was more straightforward than in some of the earlier books, but also sometimes..." Read more

"...Conway is tough, smart, abrasive, and sometimes overly paranoid but only because she has to wear her bitchpants to work in a squad of men who have..." Read more

"...As always, I absolutely loved the fast paced dialog. It's never stilted and almost never forced and her exchanges are phenomenal...." Read more

"...so defensive, and so quick to jump to conclusions, the book is sometimes difficult to read, and Conway sometimes hard to like...." Read more

355 customers mention "Writing quality"347 positive8 negative

Customers find the writing quality brilliant, intense, and interesting. They also say the author makes the flaws relatable and never disappoints. Readers also mention that the book is vintage French displaying her literary excellence.

"...This made The Trespasser a great, interesting and intricate read (and I loved it)...." Read more

"...Her characters, particularly the women, are fascinating, usually damaged, but intelligent, highly competent, confident and self-reflective...." Read more

"...I liked it, but didn't love it. The final 30 pages are phenomenal and make it worthwhile to push on to the end...." Read more

"...HOWEVER the other chapters were absolutely brilliant, being the prickly and intense meeting of Detectives Steven Moran and Antoinette Conway,..." Read more

256 customers mention "Characterization"206 positive50 negative

Customers find the characters compelling and impressive. They also appreciate the sophisticated prose, masterful plotting, and different narrators in each book.

"...The characters are finely and complexly drawn, the plot moves along in spite of Conway’s paranoia, and the twists and turns kept me guessing as to..." Read more

"...are consistently well written with startling reveals, compellingly human main characters, and answers that are never simple or happily ever after...." Read more

"...She is truly a master. Her character development is usually spot on as well, though in this one there were a few cliches - I'm looking at Rory..." Read more

"...The dialogue is authentic to each character, and distinctive to each without ever breaking the reader's concentration...." Read more

25 customers mention "Content"21 positive4 negative

Customers find the content strong-willed, persistent, and determined to follow their own path. They also describe the book as atmospheric, compelling, tough going in places, riveting, suspenseful, powerful, and real.

"...In this book, Conway is running the show and I loved it. Conway is tough, smart, abrasive, and sometimes overly paranoid but only because she has to..." Read more

"...All amidst a vibrant, gritty, perfectly personal presentation of discovery, evidence, and revelations. I hope there are a dozen more to come!" Read more

"...A powerful, masterfully controlled novel which is strong enough to hold even the joy, fear, heartbreak and even humor than can happen when we..." Read more

"...But she is smart and persistent and determined to follow her own course, irrespective of where it might lead, who it might offend, and what it might..." Read more

100 customers mention "Pacing"31 positive69 negative

Customers are mixed about the pacing. Some mention they enjoyed the pace, the story, the language, and quick intellect. Others say the paced was slow going, dragging, and too long. They also feel that the action was muted and little movement forward.

"...say the only reason I don't give it 5 stars is because the beginning is kind of slow and while I totally get Antoinette's paranoia, sometimes I just..." Read more

"...The book dragged a bit in the middle. I listened to this one on audio and actually read another book in between sessions in the car...." Read more

"...As always, I absolutely loved the fast paced dialog. It's never stilted and almost never forced and her exchanges are phenomenal...." Read more

"...First, I felt it was too long and a lot of the scenes really dragged. This book only took place over a few days, but it felt like months...." Read more

96 customers mention "Readability"4 positive92 negative

Customers find the book boring, horrible, and whiny. They also say the tone is overly judgmental and distracting.

"...straightforward than in some of the earlier books, but also sometimes irritating...." Read more

"...Tedious, pathetic and ultimately pointless as most of the interviews were (and probably about 85% of the book), the last 15% is damn good...." Read more

"...I found it hard to follow at times and also found it less interesting than most of her other books...." Read more

"...Nada.So many words. So little movement forward. Not your best stuff." Read more

37 customers mention "Length"3 positive34 negative

Customers find the book too long and a bit short on the plausibility scale.

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"...I did find the long chapters problematic. I don’t always have the time for such lengthy chapters or read a book in one sitting...." Read more

"...I found it very long and frankly quite boring for a long time, over explicit all the time." Read more

"...I don't know, it just didn't work on some level. The conversations all seemed too long, too involved, there was little time in the story outside of..." Read more

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A good twist at the end
The next Tana French publication always has me chomping at the bit, eager to read the latest goings on in the Dublin Murder Squad.I was fortunate enough to get <strong>The Trespasser</strong> from the library shortly after it released. Honestly, in spite of some slow parts, I devoured it over a weekend. Rather than hash out a reiteration of other reviews and synopsis of the plot I’ll get to the pros and cons.So, the previous book introduced Antoinette Conway and slid Stephen Moran back on to the scene. Moran was in Faithful Place as a minor character and had a bigger role in The Secret Place. I like him and hope to read more about him. Conway on the other hand was not a character I could warm up to. I just didn’t like her in the previous book so, to be honest, I was disappointed she held such a starring role in this book.  Admittedly I changed my mind about her by the end.Midway through the book I thought it dragged a little. Too much talk and theorizing about gang connections (this will make sense when you read it) but then we turned a corner. The carrot is always dangling about who may have been the murderer and the guesses range from1) The one they are focusing on is so obvious, it can’t be them,2) If they are focusing on one person so much that it can’t be them, maybe that’s what the author <em>wants</em> you think and indeed…it <em>is</em> them,3) You’ll be blindsided by a big revelation about 40 pages from the end and there is the <strong>ah-ha moment</strong>, the big reveal.She has done that, a big twist, so you can’t rule anything out. By the end of the book I liked Conway better. She’s still not my favorite character but it won’t give me heartburn if she turns up in other books. The twist at the end was good. Well written with many theories and heated discussions between the detectives.In the latter half of the book Detective Moran uses the phrase "tickety-boo" and I immediately remembered Joy writing about this on one of the <a href="http://www.joyweesemoll.com/2016/09/30/tickety-boo-brifri/">British Isles Friday posts</a>.  I'd never heard the term before and then it pops up in this novel.Now I wait another 2 years for the next book in this series. That's about how long it seems to take for publication. Personally I am hoping Scorcher Kennedy makes another appearance but I don't think she will bring him back for more story lines. He wasn't everyone's favorite but I sure liked him.Do you read the Dublin Murder Squad series and if so, what is your favorite book in the lineup?
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Smokey
5.0 out of 5 stars Another Nearly Perfect Novel by Tana Frence
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2016
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Just as two of Dublin Murder Squad’s detectives, Antoinette Conway and Steve Moran, are about to go off of night duty, their supervisor assigns them a new murder case, an apparent domestic. Conway and Moran are less than thrilled about the assignment. Although they are to be the lead detectives in charge of the investigation, the solution to most domestics is usually obvious and requires little skill. After they are ordered to include a smug veteran squad detective, Breslin, on their team, they are even less enthusiastic.

But in the beginning stages of their investigation, the detectives sense something is not quite right, and that the obvious killer, the victim’s new boyfriend, may be innocent of the crime. Fighting Breslin, prejudices, the press, and their own demons, the two struggle to find the solution to Aislinn Murray’s murder.

French uses Conway as the first person narrator of the novel. The character is so mistrustful, so defensive, and so quick to jump to conclusions, the book is sometimes difficult to read, and Conway sometimes hard to like. I felt for her, yet grew impatient with her at times, and her perspective on her job, on other people, and on her life made it hard to determine what was actually true and what was not. This made The Trespasser a great, interesting and intricate read (and I loved it). The characters are finely and complexly drawn, the plot moves along in spite of Conway’s paranoia, and the twists and turns kept me guessing as to the solution. The novel challenged me to think, not only about the solution to the murder, but also about the complexity of what makes people into what they are, loyalty, and shades of right and wrong.

It isn’t necessary to read the previous books in French’s murder squad novels to enjoy The Trespasser, but you are missing some excellent novels if you don’t.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Another great read from Tana French
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2016
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I love Tana French. She's among the few to blow past the police procedural/mystery genre and create genuinely complex stories of literary merit. Her command of Irish idiom infuses the dialogue with a level of realism that's rare in my experience. Her characters, particularly the women, are fascinating, usually damaged, but intelligent, highly competent, confident and self-reflective. It's a pleasure to get to know them even when you find them maddening.

All that said, her newest novel doesn't compare to Faithful Place, which remains my all-time favorite for plot, character and mood. Still, this is a highly readable story that plays with the convention of the police procedural in interesting and playful ways. The title, for me, was the ultimate metaphor -- there were literal trespassers in the novel but more to the point, psychological trespassers in the form of the demons that play with our minds and bend reality. The greatest damage in the novel is the damage one does to oneself. This was true for both the murder victim, a woman unable to put her past behind her and who gets caught up in a story of her own making, and Antoinette, the murder squad lead who's tough as nails and yet can't see through or past her own fears and paranoia. What also binds the two women -- victim and cop -- are missing fathers. One can't get past that and the other doesn't want to (their reactions are polar opposites). The novel is also about the stories we tell ourselves (trespassing into our own lives??) and the danger of letting those stories take on a life of their own.

As with all French novels, the psychological edge is strong; here it was more straightforward than in some of the earlier books, but also sometimes irritating. You want to shake these characters and tell them to just get on with it. Ainsley, the victim, essentially remakes herself to take revenge on a man who she feels stole her past and her life -- the ultimate trespass. For me, this obsession, which ends in her murder, was perhaps the weakest link. And yet, although I couldn't quite fully believe she could lose herself in her obsession so completely, the narrative thrust and characters pulled me along. And our "heroine," Antoinette, on the other hand, does come to terms with her story, and her failings, emerging as a stronger and more grounded woman. French, who likes ambiguity, went with a more positive and clearer ending here and it worked well for the book. Can't wait to see where French goes with the next one and I hope the wait won't be too long.
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Jesus CORA ALONSO
5.0 out of 5 stars Great plot and extremely well created characters.
Reviewed in Spain on May 15, 2023
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Another great mystery by Tana French. The characters are vividly portrayed almost to real-life proportions. The plot is full of enigmas and small twists right up to the end. It had me wondering until I read the confirmation of who had done it and in what circumstances. I love the realistic Dublin vernacular of the characters. I really felt taken to the Fair City while I was reading the novel. There's no supernatural element in this number of the series, though, and I really missed it after the first case of detectives Conway and Moran, but I'm certainly looking forward to reading their next case, which, I hope, will definitely include a fair share of uncanny going-ons.
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Treyana
5.0 out of 5 stars Marvellous
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 22, 2020
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The concluding novel in a series of 6, in Tana Frenchs' gritty, mesmerising, wonderfully well written series set around a murder Squad based in Dublin. Funnily enough; there's a 'whodunnit' element in every book!...ha...Yet, it's far nore than just a pulpy, entertaining but forgettable generic crime novel/set of crime novels. A different detective takes centre stage in each novel. Yet, prior to doing so they will play a major part secondary only to whatever detective is the focus and protagonist in the preceding novel of this sublime series. Furthermore you'll see cameos from the main star of different books popping up in others': It's a great interwoven series. The character development and unexpected insight elsewhere as an aside that sheds light on a former central characters (insert something that you noticed and wished the author had alluded too at the time; ah - she's good this one! She knows that to love multiple protagonists..... It's like loving real people. Tana French's novels are like literary sorcery; so good it's astonishing.
It's seen as snobbery these days to like "literary" novels; well I'm a snob. I had a horrifying encounter with a Martina Cole novel about 10 years ago (I was in hospital, desperate for something to read....a nurse found me the Martina Cole book) If that's your thing; your taste in horrific. Tana French is everything Cole isn't.
Her protagonist in this book....as ever; just leaps from the page. Antoinette Conway and Stephen Moran were used before (as per the enticing format of this series) and they are so superbly 'real' they variously infuriated this reader to genuine anger, made my heart hurt by showing tenderness or vulnerability and causing me to forgive them, made me laugh out loud (gthe dialogue is just so plausible and quick witted.) Exquisitely multifaceted protagonists throughout the series but this book is a splendid way to wrap up. French's skill at creating utterly convincing characters who paradoxically are simultaneously flawed and blessed is so skillful it's silly. Now add that to her gripping plot narrative and the joy of reading a writer who combines the old school attributes of electrifying prose that is just a veritable linguistic delight , protagonists you care for and feel you know.....and a series where the books stand as complete works alone but if you want to learn more background and enjoy the reappearances of former main guys or gals in a bit part - as French weaved it together herself - you probably want to read in order.
I usually insist on this for myself but I read a book without realising it was part of the series. I cottoned on reading a second book from the series,....wildly out of sync....duh! Later on after a very unruly reading of all the books .....I started again and read in sequence. No question (at least for me - each to their own) that ideally, read in order. However; unlike some series' whereby failure to read sequentially results in having no idea about what's going on.....Or will give all the spoilers away of earlier books; French commits none of those madly annoying faux-pas; and out on sequence you'll still get to clock the small insights littered around though it may not make sense until later. So read in order or read randomly but please, DON'T DO WHAT I LEARNED OF ON GOODREAD:A moron suggesting one read Tana's series in a different order ...to the order in which the bestselling, award winning French wrote them and labelled 1 -6. I saw some bonkers notions suggesting beginning with book 3 then 4....... because this reader thought book 1 and book 2 were divisive and might put readers off. Yeah; What with Tana topping the best sellers list.....moot point. The audacity of this narcissistic person advising readers "Well don't read Tana's first or second. Tana got this soooooo wrong! You must begin with.......Why? Well I didn't like the main character in book one and book two is a bit far fetched" I've paraphrased but I swear, that was the message and because the protagonist in book one was dislikeable (to her...) it would be "divisive' (her words) 😂😂😂😂 Such delusion.....
Thus far, aside from the Murder squad six book series'; French has also written a complete standalone called "The Wytch Elm" for folk who are interested - it's also brilliant reading. Enjoy.☺️.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb writing...
Reviewed in France on August 25, 2017
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Wonderful crime thriller up there with the very best of them. I don't know Dublin at all, but just as Rankin does with Edinburgh, Tana French makes you feel like you know Dublin intimately, such is the skill with which she crafts this book. Superlatives fail me... five stars says it all.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Breathless!
Reviewed in Germany on July 19, 2017
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Watch out, this is a thriller like a blow right into the solar plexus,
one that grips you from page one and robs you of your sleep!
Tana French's unique style and her unsurpassable way of
telling a story make her a new star of the genre.
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TJ
3.0 out of 5 stars It has its moments but slow and unsurprising for the most
Reviewed in Japan on November 21, 2021
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So I actually tried reviewing this mid-way but amazon shot me down so I read the whole thing. I almost put it down because the protagonist and narrator, D Conway was like a teenager going through a phase and that just annoyed me; the story's slow and the only reason was because Conway kept describing her life and thoughts which mostly were decorated with a variation of f-words and something about punching or shoving something up somewhere. Short conclusion; I didn't find her attractive as a character, and if I told her that she'd probably give zero flying fs and think to herself about punching me through my teeth.

Basically, you get the idea she's pissed or annoyed by almost any encounter she has with whatever. I can see the author tried to give some character development for Conway towards the end but it didn't really hit me with anything as I wasn't so sure about her to start with. I get the squad has toxic masculinity and childish dudes running amock and sure we can make a commentary on that but it goes beyond that. Seriously, she even gets pissed at her partner for theorising what might have gone down at the crime scene; isn't that the very job she's supposed to do? Seek for stories that play out, use your imagination, pick one that seems most likely and go look for evidence that supports it - if not, debunk it and work on the next one. She complains that the partner's theory is too "if-maybe" and there's no evidence to support that, but I'm like "well, of course you don't have evidence YET because you hadn't looked into that story yet. Either debunk it right then and there by logic, or go look for proof."

I know it's partially because of her daddy issues but for me, it goes miles too far. And the ending? Well, I liked the interrogation scenes as it sure was quite gripping, watching the tactics unfold. But I didn't find the story, the suspense too compelling; I like suspense/mystery novels to be smart, the "ohhh I missed that" or "oh God I can't believe it but the logic points to that!" moments. Here, I didn't really have that and in the end, there wasn't any smart way of proving the culprit was guilty, it was more closer to calling mom and asking her to squeeze it out of your sibling. No smart way to get proof, no smart twist of logic(no "hang on a sec, we know this and that, and if we do this with it...that proves it!" moment).

I was hoping it to be jam-packed with complex twists here and there with hints that I would miss as a reader and have a BAM surprise as we move along making me chuckle "that's smart" or "didn't see that coming" but nah, a grindingly slow development on the story with a few "oh okay" moments raising a brow and the rest just more or less a cranky teenager's diary. I won't go far to say it was a bad read but I'm having doubts on buying another from the series; which is a shame since if this was good and gripping, I'd have 5 more books to (potentially) keep me entertained. I probably won't go for the others...

I might recommend to people who would be entertained easily, or if you're into reading more dialogue of stuff in someone's head than the actual mystery.
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