The Trespasser

Published in 2016, The Trespasser is a crime fiction novel by Tana French. Set in contemporary Dublin, Ireland, the story follows Detective Antoinette Conway, the lone female member of the famous Murder Squad, whose routine domestic murder case turns out to be anything but. The Trespasser is the sixth novel in French’s Dublin Murder Squad series. Called the “First Lady of Irish Crime” by The Independent, French was born in the United States but resides in Ireland. Her debut novel, In the Woods, won the Barry, Edgar, Macavity, and Anthony awards for best first novel.

Rookie detective Conway and her partner, Steve Moran, are part of the elite Dublin Murder Squad. Conway and Steve have just been assigned their first big case but are annoyed to be saddled with senior detective Breslin; he is only supposed to assist but wants to oversee their every move. The two detectives find an attractive young woman named Aislinn Gwendolyn Murray dead on her living room floor. A punch to the jaw caused Aislinn to fall against the fireplace and crack her skull. Conway can’t shake the feeling that she’s seen this woman somewhere before.