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The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestselling psychological thriller In the Woods.
Six months after the events of In the Woods,
Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover. She's transferred
out of the murder squad and has started a relationship with Detective Sam O'Neill, but she's too badly shaken to make a commitment to him or to her career. Then Sam calls her to the scene of his new case: a young woman found stabbed to death in a small town outside Dublin. The dead
girl's ID says her name is Lexie Madison -- the identity Cassie used
years ago as an undercover detective -- and she looks exactly like
Cassie.
With no leads, no suspects, and no clue to Lexie's
real identity, Cassie's old undercover boss, Frank Mackey, spots the
opportunity of a lifetime. They can say that the stab wound wasn't
fatal and send Cassie undercover in her place to find information that
the police never would and to tempt the killer out of hiding. At first
Cassie thinks the idea is crazy, but she is seduced by the prospect of
working on a murder investigation again and by the idea of assuming the
victim's identity as a graduate student with a cozy group of friends.
As
she is drawn into Lexie's world, Cassie realizes that the girl's
secrets run deeper than anyone imagined. Her friends are becoming
suspicious, Sam has discovered a generations-old feud involving the
house the students live in, and Frank is starting to suspect that
Cassie's growing emotional involvement could put the whole
investigation at risk.
The Likeness is another gripping psychological thriller from an author who has proven that she can deliver.
pub date: 2008-03-17 | hardcover | 9780670018864 |
