Intruder is an awkward word. Feeling an intruder is even more so.
Antoinette Conway joins the Dublin homicide squad as a detective. But where he expected camaraderie and professional indoctrination, he finds occultism, harassment, and estrangement. She is a woman, perhaps it is only because of that, she has entered the male preserve and no one was waiting for her there. The first feeling we have when we start reading the book Intrusion is that in certain spaces we still find people of the worst kind, capable of making a vacuum for a partner.
Antoinette returns to represent us as the police that begins to triumph in a multitude of novels black women and men authors from all over the world. But in this case there is a special point of machismo that spoils the atmosphere of the story from the start.
That's why you immediately side with Antoinette. And perhaps that is what the author of this novel is looking for. Empathy with the unprotected also serves as an argument to feel more deeply about everything that is going to happen to the good and professional Antoinette.
Because already in his first relevant case he has to show all his talents. At first the murder of a posh girl in her dream home seems like a typical case of gender violence. With this first line of investigation proposed, it seems that the detective begins to gain some friendships in the squad. But soon you will begin to sense that there is something else, details that point in another direction and that keep the reader in suspense.
Because the new scenarios proposed by the detective seem to make some of her colleagues uncomfortable. But the testimony of a friend of the victim states that this death is not gender-based violence, and Antoinee is not willing to falsely close the case.
Internal pressures, an unpredictable drift of the case, confusion and stress. Antoinette thinks at times that she may be losing the north, while at other times she is completely aware of it. She will have to fight against the increasing pressures and against madness, against herself, but she has firm principles and will leave her skin and her last breath if necessary to find out what is happening.
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