By Tana French
The haunting keep on with as much as the Edgar Award-winning debut In the Woods
Tana French astonished critics and readers alike along with her enchanting debut novel, In the Woods. Now either French and Detective Cassie Maddox go back to resolve a case much more sinister and enigmatic than the 1st. Six months after the occasions of In the Woods, an pressing phone name beckons Cassie to a grisly crime scene. The sufferer seems to be precisely like Cassie and contains identification picking herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie as soon as used. all at once, Cassie needs to become aware of not just who killed this woman, yet, extra importantly, who's this lady? A hectic story of transferring identities, The Likeness firmly establishes Tana French as a huge voice in suspense fiction.
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Why didnt you finish? I developed an unknown-to-science allergy to Anglo-Irish accents, I told him. He liked that. UCD going to bring you out in a rash? Ill take my antihistamines. Frank hopped off his desk and went to the window, motioning me to follow. OK, he said. See that couple down there? A guy and a girl, walking up the street, talking. She found keys and let them into a depressing apartment block. Tell me about them, Frank said. He leaned back against the window and hooked his thumbs in his belt, watching me.
Your wound can get infected, he said, brightening. Youll go into the ICU and the doctors will try everything modern medicine can offer, but no go. Jesus Christ on a bike, I said. I felt like this was all I had said, all morning long. What on earth is making this seem like a good idea to you? Whats next? Frank asked. Come on, hit me. Next, Sam said, still looking away down the lane, its bloody dangerous. Frank raised one eyebrow and tilted his head at Sam, giving me a wicked private grin. For an off-balance second I had to stop myself grinning back.
Sam looking sick, Frank on the case and not wanting me spotted at the scene: it read a lot like an undercover had got killed. Gorgeous as always, Frank said. He held the crime-scene tape for me to duck under, and it was so familiar, I had made that quick easy movement so many times, that for a split second it felt like coming home. I automatically settled my gun at my belt and glanced over my shoulder for my partner, as if this was my own case I were coming to, before I remembered. Heres the story, Sam said.