Twenty years ago, Adam Ryan and his two best friends walked In The Woods to play, but only Adam came out. Now known as Rob, he is a detective in Dublin with his partner, Cassie Maddox, who is one of the few people to know his secret. When the murder investigation of a young girl takes them to the same woods, Rob deals with disturbing memories, trying to see if it ties in with his horrible past.
The Likeness follows Cassie in an undercover investigation, trying to find out who murdered a young Trinity College grad student who not only looks exactly like Cassie, but whose name is Lexie Madison, the same name Cassie used years earlier while posing as a student to infiltrate a drug ring. Under the pretense that Lexie survived her attack, Cassie poses as the dead woman. While getting close to Lexie's small circle of friends and housemates in her search for the murderer, Cassie finds herself a bit too comfortable in her new living arrangements.
Tana French writes gripping and gritty psychological police dramas that had me ignoring my promise to myself to 'just read one more chapter.' Her use of language is superlative, her characters flawed and human, her situations frustrating and disturbing. Combined, these traits make some of the best reading I've experienced in several years.
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