The Likeness
Book description
Still traumatised by her brush with a psychopath, Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the Murder squad and starts a relationship with fellow detective Sam O'Neill. When he calls her to the scene of his new case, she is shocked to find that the murdered girl is her double. What'sā¦
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Character-driven novels are like deep, rich, organic 80% dark chocolate to me. When I want to delve headlong into a character and pull them on like a second skin, I pull out a Tana French novel. I was so deep into Cassie Maddox that I didnāt see the clues, didnāt pick up on the cues from the bad guy, and found myself on the same inevitable path as Cassie.
This book threw me into rural Ireland, back into the graduate student lifestyle, and into the insular little group that had enveloped Cassie during her investigation. I felt equally terrified atā¦
We first meet Cassie Maddox in Tana Frenchās debut book, In the Woods, but in her second showing, she really shows her mettle. Recovering from the betrayal she undergoes in the investigation of a brutal childās murder in the first book, Cassie is recruited for an undercover assignment to solve another murder ā but this time, itās the death of a young woman who she eerily resembles. Cassie must pretend to be the dead woman and gain the trust and confidence of the group of charismatic oddballs who were the closest friends of the victim. I loved Donna Tarttāsā¦
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