The Likeness: A Novel (Unabridged) The Likeness: A Novel (Unabridged)
Audiobook 2 - Dublin Murder Squad

The Likeness: A Novel (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

New York Times bestselling author Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Hunter, is “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” (The Washington Post) and “inspires cultic devotion in readers” (The New Yorker).

“Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting.” —The New York Times


In the “compellingˮ (The Boston Globe) and “pitch perfectˮ (Entertainment Weekly) follow-up to Tana French’s runaway bestseller In the Woods, Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder Squad—until an urgent telephone call brings her back to an eerie 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. Suddenly, Cassie is back undercover, to find out not only who killed this young woman, but, more importantly, who she was.
 
The Likeness is a supremely suspenseful story exploring the nature of identity and belonging.

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
NARRATOR
HO
Heather O'Neill
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
22:17
hr min
RELEASED
2018
February 13
PUBLISHER
Penguin Audio
SIZE
1.4
GB

Customer Reviews

roadtrippodcastlistener ,

A must-read!

This is one of the best books I have ever read. Beautiful story-telling. Vivid descriptions of the landscape expertly woven with complex character development that feels so intimate between relationships that it’s hard to believe it didn’t actually happen. This story grips you and seems so real that it’s forever just beyond your reach to allow the plot to unfold where it starts, as it feels that it was naturally in progress already. Descriptions of the moon, the fields, the wind, and the house seem intertwined with the events happening in the most wonderful way. Heartbroken to have finished it, but grateful to have read it.

rhow87thst ,

Wow.

All the stars. All the feels. Beautiful. Brava.

Lee Emrick ,

Overly long

I have read and enjoyed several other books by Tana French, so I was looking forward to reading/hearing this one. Spoiler Alert! All was going well until about 3/5 into the book when implausibly the author has the main character, who is an undercover police officer, reveals her true identity to another main character who is a murder suspect. The storyline derails from there and becomes increasingly unbelievable. It also disintegrated into long ridiculous conversations that were meaningless and added nothing to the storyline. Repeatedly I thought the end of the novel was very near, but the author kept extending it way past my attention span. I began to wonder if the author was being paid per word, rather than completed novel. Finally the officer is no longer working undercover and is back in her real life and the storyline should have been tying up loose threads instead of going off on tangents. There was no need to bore us with the father of the murder victim appearing and relating more information about the maladjusted life of the murder victim. We had already been informed of much of this information earlier in the novel and it shed no new light on why the victim had lived as she did. But the book was still not done. The officer has to assuage her conscience and seek out one of the fellow characters whom she deceived while working undercover. I thought that meeting was unnecessary to the plot and was just words, words. I was torn between being determined to listen until the bitter ‘end’ and being impatient for the author to just please wrap it up!

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