The Likeness
In the follow-up to Tana French’s runaway bestseller In the Woods, itʼs six months later and Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder Squad with no plans to go back—until an urgent telephone call summons her to a grisly crime scene. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used as an undercover cop. Cassie must discover not only who killed this girl, but, more important, who was this girl?
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Pulled from her Domestic Violence desk, detective Cassie Maddox is brought to a Wicklow cottage where a postgrad has been stabbed to death. The dead woman is using a fake identity Cassie once invented and could pass for her twin, so the squad sends Cassie back into the dead woman's life.
The Likeness is the second book in Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series, after In the Woods. Like the other novels in the series, it works as a standalone with its own narrator and case.
BBC and Starz produced a 2019 Dublin Murders TV series adapting In the Woods and The Likeness. The show received mixed reviews and lasted one season.
The Likeness was written by Tana French, published in 2008 by Viking Adult.
The Likeness is 448 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Likeness takes most readers 7 to 10 hours to finish.
The Likeness is a standalone novel by Tana French, not part of a series.
The Likeness is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
