by Lisa Jackson
Part of Alvarez & Pescoli, book 3
First published 2011
Dr. Kacey Lambert dismisses the first death as coincidence. The B-movie actress looked like her, but so what? When the elementary school teacher dies too, Kacey starts paying attention. Detective Selena Alvarez already suspects a connection. One victim had poison in her system, but Alvarez and her partner Detective Regan Pescoli can't establish a motive. Kacey digs into the victims' backgrounds and discovers disturbing patterns. All the women were born near each other and close to the same time. They're all roughly her age. Most troubling, they all have connections to Trace O'Halleran, the man she recently started seeing. As more lookalikes die, the murders grow increasingly vicious. The killer grows bolder with each attack. Kacey realizes she's staring at her own future unless she can stop what's coming. Someone is systematically eliminating women who share her appearance, and she knows her name sits somewhere on that list.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, detective
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
473 pages · Mass Market Paperback · Zebra
Content warnings: murder, violence