Book Notes: Tana French’s The Tresspasser

After publishing a few duds, this best-selling Irish mystery writer has again produced a good police procedural. There isn’t much of a plot and the protagonist is a compendium of the most exhausted old stereotypes about female police. But she does interrogation scenes really well and there is an occasional good insight. Like this one about people on dating apps,

ordering their relationships from the online menu because of course you have to have one, same as you have to have a state-of-the-art sound system and a pimped-out new car, and it’s important to make sure you get exactly what you want.

It’s not Kant but it’s good entertainment.

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