The remaining members of the Fantastic Four are later shown to have drifted apart, but while their current lives aren't exactly the greatest, they are ultimately livable and the implication is they will be able to move on and possibly even forget what happened. Bittersweet Ending: While Cassie is shaken up by the experience of having gone too deep in Lexie's life and being forced to kill Daniel, she doesn't really suffer any major consequences for the incident and accepts Sam's marriage proposal, concluding that while she wants to go back to Murder Squad, she can live without it if it means being happy with Sam.This might be because Lexie was going to sell her share of the house to him. Berserk Button: For the Fantastic Four, it's their house: they refuse to speak of Daniel's cousin, who wants to turn it into luxury apartments.This is, of course, an occupational hazard of working Undercover. Becoming the Mask: Cassie throughout the book.The Beautiful Elite: The Fantastic Four, according to Cassie.They're all very polite and pleasant, but they actually don't give anything away, to Frank's ire. Be as Unhelpful as Possible: The Fantastic Four.Doesn't stop them from having comfort sex, though. Justin's in love with Rafe, Abby's in love with Daniel, and neither of them have their feelings reciprocated. All Love Is Unrequited: Between the Fantastic Four.

Everything seems perfect to outsiders, but among them, not so much. (Yes, Cassie is pretending to be a woman who pretended to be a woman whom Cassie once pretended to be.) But the further she investigates, the more Cassie realizes that she might like Lexie's life more than her own - which will wreck her head even more than when she started. Cassie lives Lexie's life for some time, trying to find out whoever Lexie actually was and why she ended up dead. What's more, she's carrying ID that identifies her as Lexie Madison, an alias that Cassie once used years ago.įlash forward a few chapters, and Cassie's gone undercover as Lexie, pretending that Lexie was merely knocked unconscious, and begun living with Lexie's housemates, four English postgrads at Trinity College Dublin (Cassie's boss derisively refers to them as the Fantastic Four).

Cassie Maddox, a Dublin detective still wrecked from her last case (which is the subject of French's previous novel, In the Woods), is called to what looks to be a rather peaceful cottage, except it's also a crime scene.

The Likeness is a 2008 novel by Irish author Tana French, the second in her Dublin Murder Squad series.

'Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out.'Ĭassie Maddox, Lexie Madison.

The likeness novel