The Likeness by Tana French
Cassie is settling into her new
department, Domestic Violence, at the Dublin Police when her boyfriend calls
her up in a panic. Sam is murder police
and he wants Cassie to meet him at a remote cabin immediately. He sounds both extremely upset and relieved
and she tries to put him off, but he is insistent that she meet him at the crime
scene now. Cassie arrives to find a dead
woman at the cabin and Sam looking pale and disoriented. She soon finds out why, the woman who was
stabbed to death is a dead ringer for her.
The dead girl is also not who she
says she is. The girl’s ID claims she’s
Lexie Madison which is the alias Cassie was using back when she was working
undercover. Lexie Madison never really
existed. Cassie’s former boss, Frank
Mackey, has an idea. Cassie will be put
back undercover as Lexie, they will say she didn’t die in the attack since the crime
hasn’t yet been reported, and as Lexie she can figure out who tried to kill
her. Cassie moves into Lexie’s life,
into an old manor house with four other graduate students who make an
interesting family, one that Cassie is starting to really enjoy. But did one of the four try to kill her
double? And will they try to kill her
again?
This is a long audiobook, 20 discs,
but it is a great one. The reader does
wonderful accents and voices and the story really keeps you guessing. French is an expert at keeping her reader’s
attention by throwing out bits of information and both the detective and reader
need to puzzle out what is important and what is not. I also liked how it tied into the previous
book, but you didn’t need to read it to enjoy this one. Cassie was a secondary character in the first
book, like Frank Mackey is a secondary character in this one. In the next in the series, Frank takes center
stage and the next long road trip I have I’ll be taking that book along with
me.
