![]() ![]() ![]() A young woman is discovered dead from a single stab wound to the chest. She has lost her former partner and soulmate -Rob Ryan -while unraveling the spider twists of a calculating psychopath butchering within her own family, and is still with her earnest and protective spotter, Sam O'Neill. Like it or not, the reader is incarcerated within the novels' confines by the enticing thirst for closure, while plodding through the everyday and mundane strategies of solving crimes.įormer Murder Squad detective Cassie Maddox slides over from the previous, debut novel. ![]() These are not easy, punchy reads like most procedural crime thrillers. Both incidences work well to keep its audience chasing the dangling carrot through a rather dense series of scenes -over 400 pages worth in both books -containing numerous red herrings, intriguing backstories, and poignant discussions about identity, freedom, and the Angelican way. In The Likeness, it is the very unlikely coincidence of a stabbing victim that looks identical to one of the police detectives -and the chiefs send her undercover to root out the killer, or killers. In In The Woods, she fashions two murder mysteries, decades apart. !!!!!SPOILERS!!!!LEAVE!!!!SPOILERS!!!!YOU SHOULDN'T BE HERE ANYWAY!!!SPOILERS!!!!LEAVE!!!!Īuthor Tana French has an extraordinary knack for setting plot hooks. ![]()
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