The Likeness: A Novel

By Tana French

The haunting persist with as much as the Edgar Award-winning debut In the Woods

Tana French astonished critics and readers alike along with her spell binding debut novel, In the Woods. Now either French and Detective Cassie Maddox go back to resolve a case much more sinister and enigmatic than the 1st. Six months after the occasions of In the Woods, an pressing mobile name beckons Cassie to a grisly crime scene. The sufferer seems precisely like Cassie and consists of identity making a choice on herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie as soon as used. abruptly, Cassie needs to observe not just who killed this woman, yet, extra importantly, who's this lady? A worrying story of transferring identities, The Likeness firmly establishes Tana French as a huge voice in suspense fiction.

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The wheels of my case, grating around the pebbles, sounded loud as machine-gun hearth. hello, I stated on the backside of the stairs, having a look up at them. For a moment i assumed they werent going to respond to, they'd made me already, and that i questioned wildly what the hell i used to be alleged to do now. Then Daniel took a step forwards, and the image wavered and broke. a grin begun throughout Justins face, Rafe straightened up and raised one arm in a wave, and Abby got here working down the stairs and hugged me difficult. hiya, you, she acknowledged, guffawing, welcome domestic. Her hair smelled like camomile. I dropped the case and hugged her again; it was once a wierd feeling, as though I have been touching anyone out of an previous portray, surprised to discover her shoulder blades hot and strong as my very own. Daniel nodded gravely at me over her head and ruffled my hair, Rafe grabbed my case and commenced bumping it up the stairs to the door, Justin patted my again repeatedly and that i used to be guffawing too, and that i didnt even listen Frank commence the automobile and force away. * * * this is often first thing i presumed while I stepped into Whitethorn condominium: Ive been right here sooner than. It zinged directly via me, straightened my backbone like a crash of cymbals. where bloody good must have regarded everyday, all of the hours identity spent looking at photographs and video, however it was once greater than that. It used to be the odor, outdated wooden and tea leaves and a faint whiff of dried lavender; it used to be the best way the sunshine lay alongside the scarred floorboards; it used to be the little faucets our footsteps despatched flying up the stairwell, echoing softly alongside the upstairs corridors. It feltand youd imagine i want this yet I didnt, it flashed danger-sign purple correct throughout my mindit felt like coming domestic. From there on, such a lot of that night is a merry-go-round blur, shades and pictures and voices whirled jointly right into a burst nearly too vivid to examine. A ceiling rose and a cracked china vase, a piano stool and a bowl of oranges, operating ft on stairs and a emerging giggle. Abbys arms small and powerful on my wrist, prime me out to the flagstoned patio in the back of the home, curlicued steel chairs, historic wicker swing seat swaying within the mild candy breeze; nice sweep of grass falling away to excessive stone partitions part hidden in bushes and ivy, blink of a birds shadow around the paving stones. Daniel lighting fixtures my cigarette, his hand cupped around the fit and his bent head inches from mine. the complete ring in their voices hit me like a surprise, after the flattened-out video sound, and their eyes have been so transparent they burned on my dermis. occasionally, nonetheless, I get up with one in all their voices robust and shut through my ear, fallen immediately out of that day: Come right here, Justin calls, come outdoor, the evenings so attractive; or Abby says, we need to make a decision what to do with the herb backyard, yet we have been looking forward to you, what do youand Im wide awake, and theyre long past. i need to have talked too, someplace in there, yet I cant keep in mind such a lot of what I stated. All I take into account is making an attempt to maintain my weight forwards on my feet like Lexie did, my voice up in her check in, my eyes and my shoulders and my smoke on the correct angles, attempting to not go searching an excessive amount of and never to maneuver too quickly with no wincing and never to claim something idiotic and never to whack into the furnishings.

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