The Look-Alike
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3.5 • 4 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Sienna Scott, who grew up in the dark shadow of her mother's paranoid delusions, returns home to confront her past and the unsolved murder that altered the course of her life.
In her mother's shuttered home, an old fear rears it ugly head. One that had taken root inside Sienna all those years ago—that it was she who had been the killer's target that night. And now, with it, a new fear—that the killer not only intended to remedy his past mistake—he's already begun.
As the walls close in, the line between truth and lie, reality and delusion disintegrate. Has Sienna's worst nightmare come true? Has she inherited more than her mother's beautiful face? Or will she unmask a killer and finally prove she may be her mother's look-alike, but she's not her clone?
THE LOOK-ALIKE, written in Erica Spindler's trademark style — fast-paced, with twists and turns that lead to a final, shocking conclusion — proves once again why she has legions of fans around the world and has been dubbed the Queen of the Romantic Thriller.
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In this serviceable romantic thriller from bestseller Spindler (The Other Girl), 29-year-old chef Sienna Scott comes to believe returning to her hometown of Tranquility Bluffs, Wis., might just be the worst move she ever made. Though Sienna has matured immensely during the decade since her now-deceased father packed her off to London to protect her from the toxic combination of her mother Viv's paranoid delusions and the probe into the murder of a fellow student, Madison Robie, whose body Sienna discovered, nothing could properly prepare her for the nightmare that awaits her in Tranquility Bluffs. Not only has Viv's mental illness worsened significantly but the Robie investigation has just been reopened and Sienna starts getting menacing calls that rekindle her fears that she might have been the killer's original target. Unexpected passion with the hunky house-flipper who recently moved in across the street from Sienna's family home adds romantic heat en route to the contrived conclusion. Spindler smoothly blends all the plot ingredients, but she leaves the reader hungry for something more satisfying.
