This book would best be approached with no real knowledge of the plot, but I’ll try to give you something more than just, “Go read it, it’s good, I swear!” “You forget what it was like. You’d swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran off the mercury, your heart galloped flat-out and never needed to rest, everything was pitched on the edge of shattering glass. How wanting something was like dying of thirst. How […]
Maybe she’s a cylon
I’m so glad I dove right into this one after finishing In The Woods. I liked them both, but The Likeness is a touch stronger in terms of writing and I loved the story. Cassie Maddox gets pulled into a murder investigation after a body is found who looks just like her. Everyone working the case is spooked by their eerie similarities, but things only get weirder when they find out she’s been living under one of Cassie’s old undercover aliases, Lexie Madison. Lexie was […]
Into the woods, it’s time to go, I hate to leave, I have to though. Into the woods, it’s time, and so I must begin my journey
I’ve been meaning to read this for a long time (it’s been on my shelves for years) and I’m so glad I finally picked it up. I was in the perfect mood for a dark, twisty mystery. And this is exactly the kind of mystery I tend to go for: detailed, melancholy, with complex characters. In The Woods centers on Rob Ryan, detective in the Dublin Murder Squad. When he was twelve years old, his best friends went missing in the woods behind their neighborhood […]
Dublin Murder Squad #1
I’ve mentioned in previous CBR reviews that my sister-in-law is a discerning librarian and when she rates something highly on Goodreads, I automatically add it to my to-read list. That’s how I came across Tana French’s In the Woods, the first of her Dublin Murder Squad novels. Woods has two central mysteries that may or may not be related. Detective Adam ‘Rob’ Ryan was only 12 the afternoon he and his two best friends ran off into the woods on a hot summer day in […]