![]() 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. Then Sam calls her to the scene of his new case: a young woman found stabbed to. Shes transferred out of the murder squad and started a relationship with Detective Sam ONeill, but shes too badly shaken to make a commitment to him or to her career. 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. Six months after the events of In the Woods, Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover. ![]() 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. 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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