![]() ![]() But Lexie was supposed to be a figment of Cassie’s imagination.Īt the behest of Frank Mackey, Cassie’s acerbic, wisecracking boss and an irrepressible Irish charmer, Cassie is sweet-talked into trying the unthinkable. Not for nothing is the new case labeled Operation Mirror: there is a dead Lexie Madison, and she looks like the spitting image of Cassie. The reasons for the switch are grimly self-evident once Cassie gets a look at the victim. ![]() Cassie is pulled off her current beat, domestic violence, and sent back to work on a murder investigation. But the fictitious Lexie Madison is long gone by the time “The Likeness” begins.Įxcept she’s not. Cassie became a college student named Alexandra Madison in the course of a long investigation that left Cassie with stab wounds and nightmares. ![]() Her first book was the Edgar-winning “In the Woods,” in which a police detective named Cassie Maddox took on an undercover role. But “The Likeness,” Tana French’s second novel, has a much tighter bond with its predecessor. The usual sequel takes characters from an established book or series and then moves them on toward new adventures. ![]()
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