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. She’s transferred
out of the murder squad and started a relationship with
Detective Sam O’Neill, but she’s 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 girl’s ID
says her name is Lexie Madison—the identity Cassie used
years ago as an undercover detective—and she looks exactly
like Cassie.
With no leads, no suspects, and no clue to Lexie’s real
identity, Cassie’s old undercover boss, Frank Mackey, spots
the opportunity of a lifetime. They can say that the stab
wound wasn’t 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 victim’s identity as a graduate student with a
cozy group of friends.
As she is drawn into Lexie’s world, Cassie realizes that
the girl’s 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 Cassie’s
growing emotional involvement could put the whole
investigation at risk. Another gripping psychological
thriller featuring the headstrong protagonist we’ve come to
love, from an author who has proven that she can deliver.
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