. We’d love your help. When he calls her to the scene of his new case, she is shocked to find that the murdered girl is her double. Impressive writing. She trained, but she quit working when you were seven and your family left Ireland. The Likeness is the second book in the series by Tana French, focusing on Cassie Maddox, the partner of Detective Rob Ryan from her first book, In The Woods. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, Book 1), © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. I was wearing my work clothes—black trouser suit, white shirt—and I wasn’t that crazy about them myself, but when I switched to Domestic Violence my new superintendent kept going on at me about the importance of projecting an appropriate corporate image and building public confidence, which apparently cannot be done in jeans and a T-shirt, and I didn’t have the energy to resist. While the plot of replacing someone who was already using an assumed identity is improbable, French did a wonderful job of making it almost believable. I took my time adjusting the earmuffs and checking my gun, waited till everyone else was concentrating on their own targets, so they wouldn’t see me galvanizing like an electrocuted cartoon character on the first few shots. Just for the record, I was not dressed like Hillary Clinton here. Father, Sean Madison, a minor diplomat, posted in Canada—that’s so we can pull you out fast if we need to: give you a family emergency, and off you go. I was rewarded with richly drawn characters reminiscent of The Secret History. The Likeness [is a] nearly pitch-perfect follow-up to her 2007 debut thriller, In the Woods.” —Entertainment Weekly Tana French astonished critics and readers alike with her mesmerizing debut novel, In the Woods. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 9, 2019. The second installment in American-Irish author Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series, The Likeness (2008) chronicles a detective's efforts to investigate the murder of a young woman who is the protagonist's doppelganger. A couple of days earlier, when Frank had sent out the call for cops who had a college education and could pass for early twenties, I had been wearing a neon yellow vest that was too big for me and patrolling a small town in Sligo where most of the locals looked disturbingly alike. She is the author of In the Woods (winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and Barry awards for Best First Novel), The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbour (winner of the LA Times prize for Best Mystery/Thriller) and The Secret Place.She lives in Dublin with her husband and two children. They gave me a lightsaber and all.” I caught Sam’s confused frown out of the corner of my eye—I don’t talk much about undercover, I’m not sure he’d ever heard me mention Frank’s name—but it was only when I turned to him that I realized he looked awful, white around the mouth and his eyes too wide. ", Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2017, _The Likeness_ is French's second "Dublin Murder Squad" book (. I’m not in Murder any more, Sam. If you stop to second-guess yourself, you’re fucked, possibly dead. “You used to be in Murder?” This right here was exactly why I hadn’t wanted to get chummy. The Likeness (Book) : French, Tana : Six months after the events of In the Woods, Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover. Who has the energy to beat up his missus at this hour?”“You can always make time for the things that really matter,” I said, digging my locker key out of my pocket.“Maybe it’s black ops,” said the younger guy, grinning at me. My first instinct was—still—to tell him to do something creative to himself, but neither my ex-partner’s mental status nor his love life was my problem, not any more.Sam came back on the phone sounding even more tense and rattled. Somewhat lyrical for a detective/mystery, but it added to the overall enjoyment. If you don’t like those, you can always wear your helmet. French, Tana - 'The Likeness' Hardback: 560 pages (Aug. 2008) Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton ISBN: 0340924772. From "The butler did it!" The other guy cocked his head sideways, one fast tilt like a wink, and I knew who it was.“Fuck me briefly,” I said, before I was even off the Vespa. THE LIKENESS by Tana French, seduces from the start . She lived in a house with her roommates; Cassie's mission is to assimilate back into the house and to find out who murdered Lexie (the girl was using the name Cassie had previously used undercover). But now I think I always knew there would be consequences to Lexie Madison. “There’s a detective training course starting in ten days; I’ll get you into that. She lived in a house with her roommates; Cassie's mission is to assimilate back into the house and to find out who murdered Lexie (the girl w. This book. Buy from. Everyone had told me the story: when the Snake—a career gangster and five-star wacko, who once left one of his own men quadriplegic for not buying his round—got suspicious and threatened to use a nail gun on Frank’s hands, Frank looked him in the eye without breaking a sweat and bluffed him down till the Snake slapped him on the back and gave him a fake Rolex by way of apology. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. I wanted the job, maybe more than I had ever wanted anything in my life.He was a legend: Frank Mackey, still in his thirties and already running undercover operations; the best Undercover agent Ireland’s ever had, people said, reckless and fearless, a tightrope artist with no net, ever. ( 2008) (The second book in the Dublin Murder Squad series) A novel by Tana French. “What’s up?”“Cassie,” Sam said. Perfect for those who seek a less than conventional murder mystery and police procedural. It can easily be called a mystery but it is much more than that because in this author's hands it becomes a study of identity, being, and the … Women detectives Ireland Fiction. I’d love to tell you one without getting into the other, but it doesn’t work that way. Please try your request again later. The Likeness [is a] nearly pitch-perfect follow-up to her 2007 debut thriller, In the Woods.” --Entertainment Weekly** “Tana French puts a clever twist on every lonely child’s fantasy of leading a parallel life when she creates an alternate … French’s writing and understanding of the human psyche is always superb and this was not an exception. This is Lexie Madison’s story, not mine. Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2018, “All the best undercovers have a dark thread woven into them, somewhere…When I was Lexie Madison for eight months she turned into a real person to me, a sister I lost or left behind on the way; a shadow somewhere inside me, like the shadows of vanishing twins that show up on people’s X-rays once in a blue moon. Broken Harbor: A Novel (Dublin Murder Squad), Dublin Murder Squad Series 6 Books Collection Set by Tana French (In The Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbour, Secret Place & The Trespasser). The abridged version: UCD’s premier speed freak got paranoid and stabbed me, wounded-in-the-line-of-duty got me a place on the Murder squad, the Murder squad got to be a head-wrecker, I got out. The plot has a strong psychological angle, as the orphaned Cassie goes undercover, and finds herself in a close-knit circle of friends that are almost like family. She has at least one flatmate, though. After the first few shots a fuse would blow in the back of my brain and the rest of the world vanished somewhere faint and far away, my hands turned rock-steady on the gun and it was just me and the paper target, the hard familiar smell of powder in the air and my back braced solid against the recoil. Officially, we got a solve in barely a month, society was saved from the evildoer, it looked all pretty in the media and in the end-of-year stats. sorry.” He made that harsh little sound again. If you have not read it- BUY IT AND READ IT NOW. can you just come? It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Why didn’t you finish?”“I developed an unknown-to-science allergy to Anglo-Irish accents,” I told him.He liked that. Sooner or later, someone had to pull the first horror case.We don’t have official profilers, but the Murder guys, who mostly didn’t go to college and who were more impressed by my psychology semi-degree than they should have been, used to use me. The Likeness by Tana French “[Tana French] aces her second novel. Maddox re-establishes herself as an undercover plant, testing her skills as attempts to fit into a life she never knew. We need her innocent enough that they won’t consider her a threat, respectable enough to be useful to them, and rebellious enough that they won’t wonder why she wants to play.”By the time we finished, it was dark. Not my cup of tea. He let it off the lead to have a run about in the fields. They going to be OK with that?”“They’ll have to be,” I said.He was still slouching easily against the window frame, but I caught the sharp glint of blue: he was watching me hard. This book can be read as a stand-alone but follows very nicely on from In the Woods, the first novel of the Dublin Murder Squad series. Sam, fair and sturdy and tense, feet planted apart and hands in his jacket pockets; and a few feet from him, someone else, head up, leaning back against the stiff wind. Fortunately, French's chosen milieu is much more exciting. Half these people are binned out of their heads most of the time, and the other half are very serious about what they do, which means none of them would have any problem with the idea of killing you. “It’s Frankie. Got family?”“An aunt and uncle,” I said.“Boyfriend?”“Yes.”“You’ll be able to contact them, but they won’t be able to contact you. [Well, to my great disappointment it wasn’t so and that’s where the main flaw of the story lies for me. Cassie arrives to discover a murder victim who bears a striking resemblance to her, with identification listing the victim as Lexie Madison. “Ah, a professional. I. [pregnant lone women and their some kind of similar end. He slid off the desk and held out his hand.“Cassie,” I said, shaking it. She got a job?”“She’s a nurse.”“Careful. .”Sun slanting across the scarred wood of the desk. In the Woods is a 2007 mystery novel by Tana French about a pair of Irish detectives and their investigation of the murder of a twelve-year-old girl. When did you have your first boyfriend? While discussing different genres/series with friends Tana French was mentioned. Unsettling, humane and I loved the final scene at the 'big' house. There were two men standing on the crest of the hill. It was your standard-issue trauma stuff—shaking, not eating, sticking to the ceiling every time the doorbell or the phone rang—with a few ornamentations of my own. “Check you out. Try Gone is gone; pretending anything else is a waste of time. . “Not at all.”“Lovely,” said Frank. I was following him down the lane and I could only see the back of his head. “This isn’t some Colombian cartel we’re talking about, and you’ll be dealing mostly with the lowest ranks— at first, anyway—but you’ve got to know this job isn’t safe. 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. I. I found an ancient red beret in my satchel and waved it at him.“Nah, we’ll get back to that some other time. ARTICLES. Undercover’s half intuition—and I don’t mean psychic shite. . The department shrink spent weeks trying to convince me I was deeply traumatized, but eventually he had to give up, admit I was fine (sort of regretfully; he doesn’t get a lot of stabbed cops to play with, I think he was hoping I would have some kind of fancy complex) and let me go back to work.Embarrassingly, the one that got me wasn’t a spectacular mass murder or a hostage crisis gone bad or a nice quiet guy with human organs in his Tupperware. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used as an undercover cop. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Yep, Tana French has succeeded in doing it yet again - writing a fantastic book which kept me on the edge of my seat from the very first to the very last page. Faster,” Frank said, when I took a breath.“He’s a little smart-arse. French has a brilliant ear for dialogue . When it comes to mysteries and thrillers, we're all guilty of loving a good trope from time to time. I longed to be a part of this sort of makeshift home. Penguin Books; Reprint edition (May 26, 2009). Why? “Nicely done. “She’s bait,” Frank said bluntly, “and she has to be the right bait to make the dealers rise. Frank cocked an eyebrow like a question, and for a moment I wasn’t sure how I knew; then it clicked. Tana French grew up in Ireland, Italy, the United States and Malawi. Her first novel, In the Woods, won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and Barry awards for Best First Novel and the IVCA Clarion Award for Best Fiction. Sam’s cop instincts would have overridden his protective ones and he would have called me in, if he needed to; if he’d got to a scene and found something bad enough.“Hang on,” the redhead said. Still traumatised by her brush with a psychopath, Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the Murder squad and starts a relationship with fellow detective Sam O’Neill. A little naïve maybe, a little unguarded, too ready to tell you anything you asked without thinking twice. The office was small and had a disheveled look, like he used it mainly for storage. “I’m fine. And I stopped dreaming. my review for the first book in the series, SOLVED. The sun was still low in the sky and their long shadows turned them giant and portentous, silhouetted almost too bright to look at against skimming clouds, like two messengers walking out of the sun and down the shimmering road. May 1st 2009 First of all, and I just must say it, this is about as unlikely a premise as can be explained outside the realm of speculative fiction. Think faster; keep an eye out for implications. She says: "... [Rob] had gone so far away I couldn't even see him on the other side. My bigger problem with the book is the author's flowery prose style. “I’m at the firing range,” I said. I've read all 5 (as of Oct 2015) in the series and this one is by far the best! I had heard that avid note way too many times, over the past few months.“Once upon a time,” I said, giving him my sweetest smile and my you-do-not-want-to-go-there look.Redser’s curiosity and his libido had a quick duel; apparently he figured out that his libido’s chances were slim to none anyway, because the curiosity won. I’ll tell DV we need you.”“You don’t. ISBN: 1-4362-2829-8 1. She slowly spirals into worse and worse decision-making, and we can see how her desire for family is clouding her judgement. Title. She found keys and let them into a depressing apartment block. French really needs to edit her work and eliminate the 'bits that readers skip.' “Says here,” he said, tapping my file, “you’re good under pressure.”It took me a second to figure out what he was talking about. “[Tana French] aces her second novel. I’d got to the point where I could make nine head shots out of ten, at forty yards, and the wizened little man who ran the range had started looking at me with a horse trainer’s eye and making noises about the department championships.I finished up around seven, that morning. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 29, 2020. In short, Cassie agrees to go undercover posing as a girl who looks exactly like her but was murdered. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. [I was pretty sure I knew my suspect pool but little twists like the how and why...the Rafe and Justin thing... RAFE BEING THE ******... Abby being in love with Daniel... holy shit bro I’m screaming. 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. Unable to add item to List. Unlike most books in a series, you can read them out of order (I accidentally read the fifth book first), as French focuses on a different protagonist from within the squad for each story; while there are interrelationships and connections between characters, this isn't crucial to the plot of the book. Then Sam calls her to the scene of his new case: a young woman found stabbed to death in … This is after all a contemporary (published in 2008) murder mystery set in a real live place on the planet Earth. “Tell me about them,” Frank said. The Likeness by Tana French has an overall rating of Rave based on 7 book reviews. . Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. It is beautifully written and guaranteed to give the reader goose flesh. Why? “Believe me, you’ll see.”. In its annual book awards, Salon named The Likeness … After reading her first book, In the Woods , and The Likeness , I will need a romp with a few English tea-drinking murderers who are not complex and have nothing to hide, before I … He pointed at a chair and went back to his perch on the desk. because, dummy, her "life" is made up solely of a group of four other insular postgrad nerds who reside in a hu. The Likeness Tana French. Some cases—ask any cop—are malignant and incurable, devouring everything they touch.I came out with a variety of symptoms that would have made the shrink bounce up and down in his little leather sandals, except that mercifully it didn’t occur to anyone to send me to the shrink for a scratched face. On the other end of the phone Sam was having a muffled argument, short frustrated questions cut off by that easy drawl, and I knew that if the redhead would just shut up for a second I could work out who it was.“I heard your partner went mental and shagged a suspect,” Redser informed me, helpfully.“I wouldn’t know,” I said, trying to disentangle myself from my bulletproof vest without losing the phone. No. Jul 17, 2008. "[Tana French] aces her second novel. Then Sam calls her to the scene of his new case: a young woman found stabbed to death in … He made a hard little noise like his throat was too tight. Sometimes needs override all detachment and sense and the detective Cassie finds herself by losing herself, realising everyone hides somewhere and even in someone. 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