on BBC Radio 4’s Short Works. She was the inaugural winner of the Sunday Business Post/Penguin Ireland Short Story Prize. Her short story “Getting the Electric” has been optioned by Fíbín Media. She lives in Cork, Ireland.Hegarty's debut novel is Fair Play.
[The Page 69 Test: Fair Play; Q&A with Louise Hegarty]
At Electric Lit Hegarty tagged eight Irish novels about the rise and fall of Big Houses—a specifically Irish term meaning a rural country mansion. One title on the list:
The Likeness by Tana FrenchRead about other entry on the list.
The Likeness is a psychological mystery that follows Detective Cassie Maddox as she investigates a murder. Detective Maddox is called to a crime scene where a woman has been found dead, and shockingly, the victim looks almost exactly like her. The deceased had been living amongst a group of students in a dilapidated mansion called Whitethorn House which they were in the process of restoring. Cassie joins the group to try and uncover the truth behind Lexie’s death, but as she immerses herself in the lives of the students, Cassie finds herself drawn to them, blurring the lines between her investigation and her own emotions.
The Likeness is among Emily Bain Murphy's seven mystery novels with the best twists, Emily Beyda's seven top doubles in the twisted world of mystery fiction, Sophie Stein's eight books about small-town woman detectives, Alison Wisdom's sven great thrillers featuring communal living, Christopher Louis Romaguera's nine books about mistaken identity, and Simon Lelic's top ten false identities in fiction.
--Marshal Zeringue
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