THE LIKENESS
Tana French
Penguin
Mystery
Hardcover: 9780670018864
Paperback: 9780143115625
Six months after the events of IN THE WOODS, Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover. She’s transferred out of the Murder squad and started a relationship with Detective Sam O’Neill, but she’s too badly shaken to make any commitment either to him or to her career. Then Sam calls her to the scene of his new case: a young woman found stabbed to death in a small town outside Dublin.
The dead girl’s ID says her name is Lexie Madison --- the identity Cassie used, years ago, as an undercover detective. And she looks exactly like Cassie.
With no leads, no suspects no clue to ‘Lexie’s’ real identity, Cassie’s old undercover boss, Frank Mackey, spots the opportunity of a lifetime. They can tell the media and the girl’s friends that the stab wound wasn’t fatal, and send Cassie undercover in her place --- to find out information the police would never hear, and to tempt the killer out of hiding to finish the job. At first Cassie thinks this is the craziest idea she’s ever heard, but gradually she’s seduced by the thought of working on a murder investigation again, by the victim’s life --- doing a post grad degree in English and sharing the huge, ramshackle Whitethorn House with a strange, tight-knit group of friends --- and by the mystery of the victim herself.
As she is drawn into Lexie’s world and uncovers layer after layer of her secrets, Cassie’s confidence begins to come back. But Lexie’s secrets run deeper than anyone imagined; at least one of her friends is becoming suspicious, and all of them would do almost anything to protect their home; Sam has discovered a generations-old feud between the locals and the inhabitants of Whitethorn House; and Frank is starting to suspect that Cassie’s growing emotional involvement could be putting the whole investigation at risk…
THE LIKENESS © Copyright 2009 by Tana French. Reprinted with permission by Penguin. All rights reserved.
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Critical Praise
"[Tana French] aces her second novel. THE LIKENESS [is a] nearly pitch-perfect follow-up to her 2007 debut thriller, IN THE WOODS."––– Entertainment Weekly
"THE LIKENESS [is] a book even better than the first, which was very good indeed….The suspense is gut-grinding, but it may hurt more to know who did it. That’s an awful dilemma --- and a wonderful book."––– New York Daily News
"Expect THE LIKENESS to figure on many awards lists, as it should."––– New York Newsday
"Her already-signature blend of psychological insight, beautiful writing and wry humor is on display once more in THE LIKENESS....savor French’s turns of phrase and simmering suspense until the prospect of finishing shuts all distractions out. Expect THE LIKENESS to figure on many awards lists, as it should."––– Baltimore Sun
"This book will leave readers eagerly awaiting the next."––– Rocky Mountain News
"French has written another winner…THE LIKENESS has everything: memorable characters, crisp dialogue, shrewd psychological insight, mounting tension, a palpable sense of place, and wonderfully evocative, painterly prose. In the Woods was an Edgar Award finalist; this one just might go one step further."––– Booklist, starred review
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