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sweddy65 's review for:
The Trespasser
by Tana French
Tana French is a master of suspense. She weaves tension into every sentence, every word.
We start knowing Aislinn is dead. We don't know how she died.
At every turn, it seems possible that everything to do with this case will go wrong. And, it does. We get a sense that there is a deeper more difficult story, but it is revealed only in glances and suggestions.
The lead detective, Antoinette, is angry and paranoid (not without reason). French builds up that paranoia building block after building block until I was there, too. It was impossible to know what was real and what was imagined, what was there and was not there, what was fact and what was obfuscation.
I love the way French captures all of the layers: the suspense, the paranoia, the language, the interactions, a female detective navigating a male world, allies and enemies.
We start knowing Aislinn is dead. We don't know how she died.
At every turn, it seems possible that everything to do with this case will go wrong. And, it does. We get a sense that there is a deeper more difficult story, but it is revealed only in glances and suggestions.
The lead detective, Antoinette, is angry and paranoid (not without reason). French builds up that paranoia building block after building block until I was there, too. It was impossible to know what was real and what was imagined, what was there and was not there, what was fact and what was obfuscation.
I love the way French captures all of the layers: the suspense, the paranoia, the language, the interactions, a female detective navigating a male world, allies and enemies.