Emily Beyda is a Los Angeles native who written the popular “Dear Glutton” advice column in
The Austin Chronicle. She is graduate of Texas State’s M.F.A. program.
Her debut novel is
The Body Double.
At CrimeReads Beyda tagged
seven of her "favorite doubles in the twisted world of mystery fiction and (slightly) beyond," including:
The Likeness, by Tana French
I stumbled onto this book, by the legendary Tana French, in the wake of my grandfather Joe Beyda’s passing. He loved her work, 
and reading it was a way to feel closer to him during that strange, sad time. So I have a particular affection for The Likeness, which tells the story of a police detective passing herself off as a deceased victim in order to investigate a case. I love this book for the way it investigates the failures of friendship—how we might know the people we consider closest to us less than we think. There’s the satisfying unraveling of the mystery to follow, but also something deeper; the question of what it means to be held by our communities, and, in that closeness, known.
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another entry on the list.
The Likeness is among
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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