The Likeness

The Likeness

by Tana French

Detective Cassie Maddox is called to a crime in the Irish countryside. In the dilapidated cottage Cassie gasps when she sees the victim. She is looking at a mirror image of herself! The dead woman's ID says that she is Alexandra Madison, an alias that Cassie used when she worked an undercover assignment. Who was this girl and why was she killed? Frank Mackey, Cassie's old undercover boss sees this as the perfect opportunity to a killer out. Frank convinces Cassie to recreate her old alias to answer these questions. Lexie's four housemates are told that the stab wound wasn't fatal. Cassie moves into Whitethorn, a two-story ramshackle house to live as Lexie until the killer comes back to finish job. In this intense novel, Cassie is seduced by Lexie's lifestyle as a graduate student living with a close-knit group of friends. Cassie spends her days at Trinity College studying at the library and teaching tutorials. She spends her nights partying with her housemates. The lines between Cassie and Lexie begin to blur in Cassie's mind. She almost forgets that she is there to find a killer. -- recommended by Donna G. - Eiseley and Walt Branch Libraries

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