The Trespasser in Around the World in 80 Books

Sep 02, 2019 Colleen Chi-Girl rated it liked it

Shelves: ireland-irish, audiobooks, england, crime-mysteries, thrillers, 2019

I am a big fan of Tana French, as well as of good books set in Ireland.

This one #6 is my least fave of French’s novels. It was very very slowly paced. As it seemed to drag on and on, stalling over the smallest and dullest details, I almost gave up or screamed. I screamed…. lol.

To be fair, the premise was interesting and French’s snarky and fun writing didn’t fail to amuse me. I am too big a fan to give up on a Tana French police procedural crime novel so on I continued.

I also realized somewhe ...more

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Jul 10, 2017 Tony rated it really liked it

Shelves: crime, setting-ireland, novels

Having finally read Lost In the Woods earlier this year and mostly enjoyed it, I'm making my way through the rest of French's Dublin-set crime books. This one was a slight notch better to me, in that it doesn't require quite the same level of suspension of disbelief, and really hews firmly to being a police procedural. What makes it more than just another murder story is that it's also a book about the workplace, and the challenges of being a woman in a male-dominated workplace. But not in a way ...more

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Jul 27, 2022 Nadine in NY Jones rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, ireland

This was exactly what you expect from Tana French: a dark twisty mystery wrapped up in some very in depth character study of the lead detectives. No detective has been as completely screwed up as Rob Ryan, but Antoinette gives him a run for it. I had a hard time with her, being SO abrasive and SO sure the entire world was out to get her. Maybe my perspective is different because I am also the only woman in my department because I'm in a male-dominated profession. Because it was so obvious t This was exactly what you expect from Tana French: a dark twisty mystery wrapped up in some very in depth character study of the lead detectives. No detective has been as completely screwed up as Rob Ryan, but Antoinette gives him a run for it. I had a hard time with her, being SO abrasive and SO sure the entire world was out to get her. Maybe my perspective is different because I am also the only woman in my department because I'm in a male-dominated profession. Because it was so obvious to me that the squad was not going to be as awful to her as she thought they were, just because she was a woman. By the end of the book, she's figured that out, too, which was nice, and as a result I'd like to see her and Moran in a sequel, now that she is over being a perpetual victim.

The plot (because I will forget): a beautiful woman, Aislinn Murray, has been found dead from blunt force trauma to the head because her head slammed into her fireplace a few times. Her best friend is cagey with the detectives and clearly keeping something back. Conway knows she's seen the vic before, and she finally remembers (view spoiler)

I listened to the audiobook, which was wonderfully read by Hilda Fay. In the US, we say Moran as "more-ANN" but in Ireland they say "MORE-un" so it sounds almost like "moron."

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Oct 23, 2024 Julie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Fantastic! May be my favorite of her so far. I’m not even really a fan of police procedurals but French does it better than anyone!

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Sep 05, 2020 Nikki Morse rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks

I listened to this on audiobook, and that might have influenced the lower score, because I have liked Tana's other books and had higher expectations for this. But it just wasn't that thrilling - I think I like my murder mysteries a little more grizzly than this -- otherwise, why bother, plus it helps keep alert on those long drives. I did very much enjoy listening to the accents! ...more

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