• SK BENAZIR

The Dublin Murder Squad Series is a collection of novels by the American Irish Crime Fiction Writer Tana French. The Series comprises of loosely interconnected novels which can also be read as stand-alone novels. The Black Woman Detective named Antoinette Conway works in this famous murder squad and she features in The Secret Place and The Trespasser which are the fourth and the sixth novel in the series respectively. Tana French through her portrayal of the character of Antoinette Conway talks about the topics related to gender, class, and racial discrimination, and also about the psychological understanding of rejection and abandonment issues, even when faced as a child, and how it impacts adversely for a lifetime and as a traumatic memory these underlying triggers surface at particular circumstances. As the only woman and that also of color, Conway had to face racist and sexist remarks at her workplace and she is considered as an outsider. Yet driven by her passion and love for the profession, Conway continues to strive to make her own identity in an essentially male dominated arena. This paper intends to make a comprehensive study on how even while battling past trauma and abandonment issues, Conway, the black woman, despite facing a hostile atmosphere at work, continues to pursue her profession and it is only through her intelligence and relentless persistence that she is finally successful in establishing her individual identity as a professional female detective.

Female detective, Black woman, Past Trauma, Gender and Race, Memory, Psychoanalysis, Abandonment and rejection, Woman protagonist

" TANA FRENCH'S ANTOINETTE CONWAY: A CASE STUDY OF A SUCCESSFUL FEMALE DETECTIVE ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 7, page no.h62-h71, July-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2207711.pdf

" TANA FRENCH'S ANTOINETTE CONWAY: A CASE STUDY OF A SUCCESSFUL FEMALE DETECTIVE ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 7, page no. pph62-h71, July-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2207711.pdf