

In “The Trespasser,” French’s sixth and latest, Conway takes the lead, while Moran falls into a supporting role as her partner on the Murder Squad.

When we first met Detective Antoinette Conway, she was a fiery secondary character in 2014’s “The Secret Place,” seen through the point of view of that novel’s principal, Detective Stephen Moran. She’s taken a smart approach with this series: Instead of piling improbable murder mystery after improbable murder mystery on the back of a single beleaguered protagonist, each of her books features a different lead detective, all but the first introduced as side characters in earlier installments. It’s impossible to get tired of Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad novels.
