The Likeness

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestselling psychological thriller In the Woods

Six months after the events of In the Woods, Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover. She’s transferred out of the Murder Squad and begun a relationship with Detective Sam O’Neill, but she’s too shaken to commit—to him or to her career.

Then Sam calls her to the scene of a new case: a young woman found stabbed to death outside Dublin. The victim’s ID says her name is Lexie Madison—the same alias Cassie once used as an undercover detective—and she looks exactly like Cassie.

With no leads, no suspects, and no clue to Lexie’s true identity, Cassie’s former undercover boss, Frank Mackey, spots an opportunity. They can claim the stab wound wasn’t fatal and send Cassie back undercover to assume the dead woman’s life—hoping to draw the killer out of hiding.

At first, the plan seems insane. But Cassie is tempted by the chance to return to detective work—and by the allure of stepping into another life, that of a graduate student surrounded by an intimate, mysterious circle of friends.

As Cassie immerses herself in Lexie’s world, she realizes the dead girl’s secrets run far deeper than anyone imagined. Her new friends are growing suspicious, Sam uncovers a generations-old feud tied to their crumbling estate, and Frank begins to fear Cassie’s emotional involvement could put the entire operation in danger.

Another gripping, atmospheric psychological thriller from Tana French, featuring the fearless, complex heroine readers first met in In the Woods.