The Trespasser - Tana French

Detective Antoinette Conway and her partner Steve Moran are the newest murder squad detectives, and up until now have been getting only bog standard DV cases. When a young woman’s dead body is found in her living room all the clues point to it being another lover’s tiff gone wrong. But Antoinette and Steve aren’t 100% sure that everything is as it seems to be, and dig around to see what they can find out...

Tana French is such a brilliant writer. She hooks you in from the get go, and there is no way you can let go of The Trespasser until you have figured out the case alongside the main characters. I love how she develops her characters, how solid and human they are, and how she develops the plot, peeling off layer after layer, never missing a beat.

I also really love the descriptions of Dublin, of people, of atmospheres in her books. It’s impossible not to feel right there. I love a good crime story I can really get my teeth into, and The Trespasser does that - Tana French throws you a few bones here and there, but there is no way you can figure out the mystery until the detectives do - and it’s brilliant!