All she needs is a sparring match with Frank, and Cassie quickly returns to the land of the living - and to the subtle demands of her perilous, suspenseful masquerade. But Cassie herself remains a strong enough character to sustain interest, even if many of her observations about Whitethorn have a vague, hazy quality. She could have achieved the same effects much more succinctly in a more tightly edited version of this same story. French resists genre conventions defiantly enough to have written a long, rambling book, one that is more interested in character revelations than in 'Aha!' moments about the plot. But The Likeness intends a much longer and more leisurely look at the householders’ domestic arrangements, their inner lives and the yearnings they trigger in Cassie, who has no real home of her own. Still traumatised by her brush with a psychopath, Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the Murder squad and starts a relationship with fellow detective. the conventional approach to this suspenseful setup would have been to make one Whitethorn resident or Glenskehy villager a secretly murderous figure and save the details for a frenzied denouement. some resemblance to Donna Tartt’s Secret History.
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I loved the idea of them all living in this beat-up house. The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, 2) by Tana French The Likeness book. French resists genre conventions defiantly enough to have written a long, rambling book, one that is more interested in character revelations than in 'Aha!' moments about the plot. It was a bit like Agatha Christie, except French is a much better writerit was moody and scenic without being overwrought or schmaltzy. But The Likeness intends a much longer and more leisurely look at the householders’ domestic arrangements, their inner lives and the yearnings they trigger in Cassie, who has no real home of her own.
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