Another gripping psychological thriller featuring the headstrong protagonist weve come to love, from an author who has proven that she can deliver. Her friends are becoming suspicious, Sam has discovered a generations-old feud involving the old house the students lived in, and Frank is starting to suspect that Cassies growing emotional involvement could put the whole investigation at risk. At first Cassie thinks the idea is crazy, but she is seduced by the prospect of working on a murder investigation again and by the idea of assuming the victims identity as a graduate student with a cozy group of friends.Īs she is drawn into Lexies world, Cassie realizes that the girls secrets run deeper than anyone imagined. Its not a bad novel per se and is very in the pocket for Tana French so I am sure her fans do and will love it (it came out in 2008). If you know her, this is oneof her Dublin Murder Squad thrillers and is a kind of follow up to her novel In the Woods featuring a few of the same main characters. They can say that the stab wound wasnt fatal and send Cassie undercover in her place to find out information that the police never would and to tempt the killer out of hiding. I just finished The Likeness by Tana French. With no leads, no suspects, and no clue to Lexies real identity, Cassies old undercover boss, Frank Mackey, spots the opportunity of a lifetime. The dead girls ID says her name is Lexie Madison the identity Cassie used years ago as an undercover detective and she looks exactly like Cassie. Then Sam calls her to the scene of his new case: a young woman found stabbed to death in a small town outside Dublin. Later, Frank says to Cassie that he had chosen suicide by cop.

Shes transferred out of the murder squad and started a relationship with Detective Sam ONeill, but shes too badly shaken to make a commitment to him or to her career. Murder Is the Best Solution: When Daniel aims his gun at Cassie, Cassie shoots back, killing him. Six months after the events of In the Woods, Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover.

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