zbmorgan 's review for:

The Likeness by Tana French
4.0

This book is so very hard to describe. It's a mystery, sure, but the characters are so well drawn you will forget about what you're trying to find out until you approach the very end, which is actually wonderful, since it enables you to stop and savor the writing.

While the first Dublin Murder Squad book, The award winning In The Woods, is alluded to a great deal here, I've never read it and enjoyed this book just fine. And for the reviewers who complained that that book didn't have as much closure as they would like, this book has lots. At the end, you find out things you didn't even realize you needed to know. It's a long but satisfying read - not a page turner at every moment, but one of the most satisfying mysteries I've ever read.