The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad Series #2) by Tana French - PDF free download eBook

Six months after the events of In the Woods, Detective Cassie Maddox is still recovering, Transferred out of Dublins Murder squad at her own request, she vows never to return. That is, until her boyfriend, Detective Sam ONeill, calls her one beautiful spring morning, urgently asking her to come to a murder scene in the small town of Glenskehy. It isnt until Cassie sees the body that she understands Sams insistence. The dead girl is Cassies double, and she carries ID identifying her as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie herself used years ago when she worked undercover. The question becomes not only who killed this girl, but who was this girl. Frank Mackey, Cassies former undercover boss, sees the opportunity of a lifetime, Having played Lexie Madison once before, Cassie is in the perfect position to take her place. The police will tell the media and Lexies four housemates that the stab wound wasnt fatal. And Cassie will go on living Lexies life until the killer is lured out to finish off the job. Its a brilliant idea, until Cassie finds herself more emotionally involved in Lexies life than she anticipated. Sharing the charming ramshackle old Whitethorn House with Lexies strange, tight-knit group of university friends, Cassie is slowly seduced by the victims way of life, by the thought of working on a murder investigation again, and by the mystery of the victim herself. As Cassie nears the truth about what happened to Lexie Madison and who she really was, the lines between professional and personal, work and play, reality and fantasy become desperately tangled, and Cassie moves closer to losing herself forever.

Tana French grew up in Ireland, Italy, the United States, and Malawi. She is the author of In the Woods (winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and Barry awards), The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbor (winner of the LA Times prize for Best Mystery/Thriller) and The Secret Place. She lives in Dublin with her husband and two children.