But once Cassie gets to the house, the adrenaline of an undercover case sinks in, and she finds herself drawn to being Lexie. I love these novels, and while I’m reading, I belong to them. (She was introduced in In the Woods and had an up-down relationship with Rob.) We and our partners use cookies on this site to improve our service, perform analytics, personalize advertising, measure advertising performance, and remember website preferences. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. After growing closer to Cassie, Rafe reveals that he knows she isn't Lexie. The most plausible theory is that Peter and Jamie were been killed by the wolf in 1985 and Adam was just lucky to escape its clutches. Is he ever going to mend that damage that was done all that time ago?' He was just gone and I was lost.”. No matter how alike two unrelated people may look, they would never be able to fool an intimate. In order to exploit the remarkable similarity in their appearances, Mackey convinces the press to suppress the news of the murder, and sends Maddox into Whitehorn House to live with Lexie’s friends, to learn her life, to discover who might have killed her. However, we never found out why Shane (James Browne) deliberately smashed his head off the sink in 1985 during the first round of interviews or what happened to Cathal. However, anyone who has ever had a friend, or a family member, or a romantic partner, will know that this premise is particularly outlandish. And this theme works for me on a profound level. The penultimate episode of Dublin Murders saw all fingers pointing to archaeologist Damien as Katy’s killer. While French revealed to Vulture that she knew what happened to Ryan and his friends all those years ago, she refused to divulge any details. The Erl-King, also known as Erlkönig, comes from German Romanticism. I give The Likeness 5 stars! A theme is beginning to emerge from French’s works: they are about the souring of love. And when Cassie Maddox sees the body, she realizes that there is another reason she has been called to this particular crime scene: not only does Lexie Madison wear her name, Lexie is also wearing Maddox’s face. "[1], "The Case of the Dead Doppelgänger Turns a Detective's Life Inside Out", "Showdown for the Irish cream of crime writers", "Tana French and the Trinity murderthe likeness", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Likeness&oldid=983618452, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 15 October 2020, at 07:51. or ask your favorite author a question with READ MORE Dublin Murders: Will there be another series? Troubled Damien, who may have been a victim of sexual assault himself was convinced by Rosalind to kill Katy after Rosalind told him Katy always laughed at her whilst she was being assaulted. Posing as Lexie, Cassie becomes a graduate student at Trinity College and moves in with Lexie’s four roommates, a close but odd and anachronistic bunch sharing and rehabbing an old country estate named Whitethorn House. "And I thought it was brilliant and original of her to end a book like that, with this dose, this slug of reality." I’m not too fancy for sex crime novels, or greed crime novels, or labyrinthine revenge crime novels – I like those novels, too!