"Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting." - The New York Times Now airing as a Starz series. Love art in all its forms.New York Times bestselling author Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher, is "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years" ( The Washington Post ) and "inspires cultic devotion in readers" ( The New Yorker ). Teacher of writing at Heartland Community College. Writer of poetry, novels and short stories. When I finished, I had five new memorable characters to remind me of the joys of this book. The Likeness kept me reading late into the night. You want to plunge into the story and be part of the unraveling. To call the novel “engrossing” is an understatement. And then, sharper: If it was them, after all, and it’s poisoned Jesus, what a way to go.
Persephone’s irrevocable pomegranate seeds, Never take food from strangers old stories where one sip or bite seals the spellbound walls forever, dissolves the road home into mist and blows it away on the wind. In the moment when that glass passed from his hand to mine, something sent up a high wild warning cry in the back of my mind. But that seems to be the author’s aim–to seduce you into this thriller.Īs the story continues, there are many twists, hidden identities, dramas and mounting tensions: These elements are so powerful in themselves that you sometimes forget about the plot. The genius of the book lies in the psychological character insights, smart writing, attention to detail and interesting settings. This is the story line, but by no means the genius of the book. Enter two opposing detectives and a double undercover agent who go to find the culprit. It is also the place where one of them is murdered. The setting for this novel is Whitethorn House in Glenskeky Village in Ireland where five very eccentric, edgy young college friends live together while working on their higher level degrees at Trinity College.
Not until then did I realize that my guess was all wrong. This is a subtle thriller that keeps you reading until the very last chapter to find out “who-dun-it”.
Such a book is The Likeness by Tana French, her second after winning the Edgar Award for In the Woods. I love a novel that not only gives you an intriguing plot, but also one with intricate character development, and sentences that are longer than six or seven words. T here is nothing I like better than a good literary mystery one that is both suspenseful and sophisticated.
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