Tana French: The Likeness (Hardcover, 2008, Viking Adult)
Hardcover, 448 pages
English language
Published July 17, 2008 by Viking Adult.
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.
As an identical twin I found the premise hilarious but if you ignore that basic issue it's a good whodunnit and beautifully written
What a fun read this was!
I got so engrossed in the plot and characters, I found myself talking to the page: "Oh, no! Cassie wants to be Lexie!"
Cassie is Detective Cassie Maddox, from Tana French's first book, [b:In the Woods|237209|In the Woods|Tana French|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1194628861s/237209.jpg|3088141]. Lexie is the fictional persona that Detective Maddox used while working undercover. A woman bearing Lexie's ID turns up murdered...and she also happens to look just like Cassie, which provides the perfect opportunity for Cassie to assume Lexie's life to track down her killer. On the improbability scale, this of course must rate an 11...but so enjoyable.
I'd definitely read more by Tana French.
