Dublin Murders
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Imagine reading two detective stories at once.
Sure, you could do it, but thered be a tangle in your brain, right?
Characters might start creeping out of one novel and into the other, where they dont belong.
All those loose ends that novelists intentionally scatter would multiply to the point of incomprehension.
It isnt an ideal reading scenario.
Tana FrenchsIn the Woodswas the first of her novels and the first of hers that I read.
So what are these two novels doing smashed together for no good reason?
Could he have killed Katy?
There is no easy connection to her case.
Could his gang have killed Jamie and Peter and tortured Adam?
Did you think we were going to lead normal lives?
arent the words of an innocent man.
Deciding to play at Lexie isnt some spur-of-the-moment flail because shes had an exceptionally bad day.
Its the only reprieve she can find from being herself.
For a show so obsessed with childhood traumas, this was a massive swing and miss.
Flashbacks also reveal how Cassie came to take Lexie as her cover.
So who is she?
Why is this lookalike pretending to be a made-up identity?
Cooper the coroner swabs Cassies cheek and runs a basic DNA test the two women arent related.
(Im assuming this means shell soon be getting some ill-advised bangs and a nose ring.)
All of this is last straw territory for Cassie.
So Cassie runs away, back inside terrain that isnt exactly safe, but is familiar.
Ill be Lexie for you, she tells Frank.
If Lexie can get away with all the nasty behavior Cassie knows she cant, then why not?
