![]() ![]() ![]() To confuse matters further, the dead girl has been living as Lexie Madison, one of Cassie’s past undercover identities. ![]() Cassie Maddox, who first appeared in In The Woods, is thrust into an undercover operation when the dead body of a girl who looks exactly like Cassie is found. How well you like this book will I think, rest almost entirely on how accepting you are of the books premise. Tana French, always one to reference the old traditions in Ireland, uses the notion of the changeling to great effect in the second of her Dublin Murder Squad series The Likeness. ![]() Detail of ‘The Legend of St Stephen’ by Martino di Bartolemeo Women in changing states were also in danger of being taken and replaced by a changeling and the last known case of a woman being killed by her husband who feared she was a changeling was in 1865. The changeling would be identical to the person it was replacing and it was said that the changeling was often an enchanted piece of wood that would grow sick and die. In Ireland, we have the myth of the changeling – a fairy child who has been secretly left in the place of a human child. ![]()
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