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The Likeness
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Overview
The Likeness, by Edgar Award winning author Tana French, is the second in her Dublin Murder Squad series, and the events take place approximately six months after the first book In the Woods ends. All the Murder Squad books take place in the same world, and each book focuses on a minor character from the previous novel. Other works by French include The Witch Elm (2018), The Searcher (2020), and The Hunter (2024). French studied acting at Trinity College in Dublin and uses her experience as an actor to write her characters and situations. French’s novels do not adhere strictly to one genre but instead are a mixture of crime drama and psychological thrillers with a bit of magical realism woven throughout.
Readers should note that the text and this guide include references to violence, suicide, death, and lost pregnancies.
Plot Summary
Detective Cassie Maddox narrates a dream she often has about Whitethorn House. The house is empty but still full of memories of Daniel and the others who lived there. Cassie is narrating the story from the future and giving an account of what happened when she came to live in the house for a brief time.
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