The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestselling psychological thriller In the Woods
Six months after the events of In the Woods, Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover. Sheβs transferred out of the murder squad and started a relationship with Detective Sam OβNeill, but sheβs too badly shaken to make a commitment to him or to her career. Then Sam calls her to the scene of his new case: a young woman found stabbed to death in a small town outside Dublin. The dead girlβs ID says her name is Lexie Madisonβthe identity Cassie used years ago as an undercover detectiveβand she looks exactly like Cassie.
With no leads, no suspects, and no clue to Lexieβs real identity, Cassieβs old undercover boss, Frank Mackey, spots the opportunity of a lifetime. They can say that the stab wound wasnβt fatal and send Cassie undercover in her place to find out information that the police never would and to tempt the killer out of hiding. At first Cassie thinks the idea is crazy, but she is seduced by the prospect of working on a murder investigation again and by the idea of assuming the victimβs identity as a graduate student with a cozy group of friends.
As she is drawn into Lexieβs world, Cassie realizes that the girlβs secrets run deeper than anyone imagined. Her friends are becoming suspicious, Sam has discovered a generations-old feud involving the old house the students live in, and Frank is starting to suspect that Cassieβs growing emotional involvement could put the whole investigation at risk. Another gripping psychological thriller featuring the headstrong protagonist weβve come to love, from an author who has proven that she can deliver.
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