The Likeness

THE ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME THRILLER FROM THE MILLION-COPY, SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: a truly great writer' GILLIAN FLYNN '[Crime fiction's] biggest contemporary star' GUARDIAN 'One of the finest writers of contemporary crime fiction' DAILY MAIL ------------------------------------------------------- She is me. And I am her. 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 doppelganger. 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. ------------------------------------------------------- Praise for the talismanic Tana French and her novels 'Creepily melding elements of Donna Tartt's The Secret History . . . The Likeness by Tana French, seduces from the start. A nifty tale of desire for belonging, as well as a cool thriller' TIME OUT 'I can do you no greater favour in life than recommending that you read her books' GUARDIAN 'The most interesting, the most important crime novelist to emerge in the last ten years' WASHINGTON POST 'The most breathtakingly brilliant and close-to-perfect thriller I've read for a long time' SOPHIE HANNAH 'I'm a big fan of Tana French' IAN RANKIN 'This is a tour de force of suspense and storytelling. Comes closer to perfection than anything I've read in the last decade' SARAH HILARY 'French offers a masterclass in unreliability' SUNDAY TIMES 'An audacious departure for this immensely talented author . . . not to be missed' NEW YORK TIMES 'A wonderfully assured and beautifully written debut novel' IRISH INDEPENDENT 'I didn't want it to end' HARRIET TYCE

THE ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME THRILLER FROM THE MILLION-COPY, SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'To say Tana French is one of the great thriller writers is really too limiting. Rather she's simply this: a truly great writer' GILLIAN FLYNN '[Crime fiction's] biggest contemporary star' GUARDIAN 'One of the finest writers of contemporary crime fiction' DAILY MAIL ------------------------------------------------------- She is me. And I am her. 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 doppelganger. 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. ------------------------------------------------------- Praise for the talismanic Tana French and her novels 'Creepily melding elements of Donna Tartt's The Secret History . . . The Likeness by Tana French, seduces from the start. A nifty tale of desire for belonging, as well as a cool thriller' TIME OUT 'I can do you no greater favour in life than recommending that you read her books' GUARDIAN 'The most interesting, the most important crime novelist to emerge in the last ten years' WASHINGTON POST 'The most breathtakingly brilliant and close-to-perfect thriller I've read for a long time' SOPHIE HANNAH 'I'm a big fan of Tana French' IAN RANKIN 'This is a tour de force of suspense and storytelling. Comes closer to perfection than anything I've read in the last decade' SARAH HILARY 'French offers a masterclass in unreliability' SUNDAY TIMES 'An audacious departure for this immensely talented author . . . not to be missed' NEW YORK TIMES 'A wonderfully assured and beautifully written debut novel' IRISH INDEPENDENT 'I didn't want it to end' HARRIET TYCE

New York Times bestselling author Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher , 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 Now airing as a Starz series. 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.

New York Times bestselling author Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher , 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 Now airing as a Starz series. 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.