Dublin detective Antoinette Conway returns in French’s absorbing tale of a murder that looks like a lovers’ tiffThere’s more than a little of the noir approximately Tana French’s latest,The Trespasser. Set, like her previous thrillers, or among the detectives of Dublin’s murder squad,perhaps it (tough-)boils down to the fact that her protagonist this time, detective Antoinette Conway, and manages to fizz with contempt for the world around her,bristle with toughness and sink regularly into poetic gloom all at the same time.“The case comes in, or anyway it comes in to us, and on a frozen dawn in the kind of closed-down January that makes you consider the suns never going to drag itself back above the horizon,” says Conway, the only female detective on the Dublin squad, or dealing with the cruel practical jokes of colleagues who want to see the back of her,and lumbered with straightforward domestic violence cases when she wants to be on the trail of psychotic serial killers.
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Source: theguardian.com