Book Log 2021 #17: The Trespasser by Tana French

Antoinette Conway is finding life on the Dublin Muder Squad difficult. She's working crap cases and gets all manner of grief from her colleagues. She's an easy target as the only woman on the squad, and garners extra attention for not being willing to go along as if it's all in good fun.

Her latest case looks like more of the same - a domestic dispute gone wrong - but as she and partner Stephen Moran (the same duo from the previous book) investigate, it becomes clear that there was more to the victim than meets the eye, and that her death may not be as open and shut as first appeared. That the powers that be want it to be open and shut is put clearly to Conway, who can't quite tell if she's being told not to overthink the case, or if she's being told off of going where the investigation leads.

This isn't the first book in the series told from a female point of view - The Likeness had Cassie Maddox as its lead detective - but it does come from a very different perspective. We get a lot more ambivalence about being a detective from Conway, even as she's finding obvious fulfillment in working this case.

This installment in the series maintains the high quality present in the previous books, which is remarkable given that we're six books in. Recommended, as is the series in general.