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 a commitment 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--From publisher description.
New York Times bestselling author Tana French, author of The Witch Elm , is "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years" ( The Washington Post ) and "inspires cultic devotion in readers" ( The New Yorker ). "Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting." — The New York Times Soon to be a Starz series In the "compellingˮ ( The Boston Globe ) and "pitch perfectˮ ( Entertainment Weekly ) follow-up to Tana French's runaway bestseller In the Woods , Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder Squad—until an urgent telephone call brings her back to an eerie crime scene. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used as an undercover cop. Suddenly, Cassie is back undercover, to find out not only who killed this young woman, but, more importantly, who she was. The Likeness is a supremely suspenseful story exploring the nature of identity and belonging.
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