In this highly imaginative work, the author argues that much of what matters in Slovenia plays out on surfacesof people and things, systems and locationsrendering the complexity of expression external and legible, but rarely unique or original. WRBH’s Book Off The Shelf program airs Monday through Friday at 1:30PM and again 3AM. The Likeness is a close ethnographic study of subjectivity in the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia.

“inspires cultic devotion in readers…most crime fiction is diverting French’s is consuming.” – The New Yorker” (via Amazon) The usual sequel takes characters from an established book or series and then moves them on toward new adventures. We felt unsettled the whole time we were reading this amazing book, so much so that we turned on every light in the house.

Her books have won awards including the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards, the Los Angeles Times Award for Best Mystery/Thriller, and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction. French is a master at juggling genres: The Likeness works as a straight-ahead police procedural, but there are threads of supernatural eeriness running throughout the story. “is the most interesting, most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” ( The Washington Post), Tana French is the author of In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbor, The Secret Place, and The Trespasser. New York Times bestselling author Tana French: “has become required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting” ( The New York Times) Suddenly, Cassie must discover not only who killed this girl, but, more importantly, who is this girl? Tana French is also the author of In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbor, The Secret Place, and The Trespasser.Her books have won awards including the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards, the Los Angeles Times Award for Best Mystery/Thriller, and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used as an undercover cop. “In the “compelling”* and “pitch perfect”** follow up to Tana French’s runaway bestseller In the Woods, it’s six months later and Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder squad.īut an urgent telephone call beckons Cassie to a grisly crime scene.

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