![]() Steve is not just a sunny foil to Antoinette he is more complex than that. Slowly, French opens up the character so that bit by bit, we begin to understand Antoinette’s responses to the world, the depth of her story, and the important role Steve plays in her professional life. ![]() Her protagonist Antoinette is a complicated, ferocious force to be reckoned with. It’s French’s characterizations that steal the show. Slowly, they begin to unravel the full story, with French showing how the police build a case block by block, from following false trails to the dawning truth.īut it isn’t French’s plotting that makes The Trespasser such a good book, though the plot is very well done and compelling. He is the only one Antoinette seems to trust, which makes sense given how much she’s been sabotaged by the other cops.Īntoinette and Steve catch a murder case that involves a young woman found dead in her home. Her partner Steve Moran is genial and sharp. ![]() The story is told through police officer Antoinette Conway’s eyes, a furious, wary, excellent cop who has been treated badly by her sexist squad for a long time. Tana French’s The Trespasser is more than your standard police procedural. ![]()
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