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The Likeness

Dublin Murder Squad: 2

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The Likeness

By: Tana French
Narrated by: Grainne Gillis
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 The inspiration for the major new BBC drama series DUBLIN MURDERS.

Tana French follows her stunning accomplished debut, IN THE WOODS, with an equally compelling psychological mystery that confirms her place as one of the most exciting new voices in crime fiction.

Still traumatised by her brush with a psychopath, Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the Murder squad and starts a relationship with fellow detective Sam O'Neill. When he calls her to the scene of his new case, she is shocked to find that the murdered girl is her double. What's more, her ID shows she is Lexie Madison - the identity Cassie used, years ago, as an undercover detective. With no leads, no suspects and no clues to Lexie's real identity, Cassie's old boss spots the opportunity of a lifetime: send Cassie undercover in her place, to tempt the killer out of hiding to finish the job.

(P)2016 Hodder & Stoughton©2008 Tana French Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Mystery Murder Crime
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I found it hard to buy into her whole integration into the house and friendships. But too unrealistic for me

A bit hard to believe

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There's way too much coincidence and things that just happen to work out perfectly. The idea that someone could watch some tapes over a weekend and then whip out a perfect impersonation of someone so accurate that their closest friends and roommates wouldn't notice a difference is implausible at best. If you can get past that it's a decent story, but there's plenty of other moments that just perfectly work how the main character needs them to. The actresses performance was absolutely grating. She put on this awful screechy voice for the main character imitating the dead girl, which is like 90% of the novel, and it was truly painful. Also I find it truly surprising that an Irish voice actor seems to have never heard a British person before, and I think we're all thankful that the Australian character was only featured for a few minutes.

Not the strongest in the series

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the most implausible of French's books but her writing is sublime enough for me to hang in there. The narrator was wonderful.

conflicted

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Way too many inconsistencies in this book and frustrating procedural lapses. I just can’t take it seriously.

I can’t finish this book

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Loved the story but I thought the narrator didn't do English accent convincingly - too stilted. There were a lot of characters which also made it difficult for narrator to have a recogisable voice for each.

Will keep listening to the series

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