This latest French novel is about an excellent detective, Mike “Scorcher” Kennedy, on the Murder Squad. She is a bestseller and a critic’s darling.Īnyway, I wasn’t really looking forward to Broken Harbor. Her novels are consistently well-reviewed. These facts surprised and disappointed me, because French has a towering reputation. But the clichés weren’t humorous they were just clichés.
What’s worse, clichés were presented as evidence of humor. The characters sometimes felt like props - not like actual people. She struggles to remain impartial, and it’s especially hard because she’s playing two roles at once - inspector and cheerful, innocent grad student.
As Cassie gets to know the friends, she falls in love with them. Cassie pretends that the woman did not, in fact, die she insinuates herself into a tightknit group of friends - a group that may or may not include the murderer. The Likeness is the tale of a young woman, Cassie, who impersonates a murder victim to try to learn about the circumstances of the victim’s death. I thought it would be a good idea to familiarize myself with French’s style. I read The Likeness in preparation for this review. But I’ve read two of French’s novels, The Likeness and Broken Harbor, and I’ve had a hard time with both of them. I haven’t read that one, but people seem to speak about it in a breathless way, and it won several awards. Maybe she’s right about French’s first novel, In the Woods. My friend said French’s books were just as good. We loved the novels of Ruth Rendell and P.D. I became interested in Tana French’s books because of a friend’s recommendation.
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