The Resemblance
Books | Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural
3.3
Lauren Nossett
Lauren Nossett’s artfully written debut, The Resemblance is an exhilarating, atmospheric campus thriller reminiscent of If We Were Villains and The Likeness.Never betray the brotherhoodOn a chilly November morning at the University of Georgia, a fraternity brother steps off a busy crosswalk and is struck dead by an oncoming car. More than a dozen witnesses all agree on two things: the driver looked identical to the victim, and he was smiling.Detective Marlitt Kaplan is first on the scene. An Athens native and the daughter of a UGA professor, she knows all its shameful histories, from the skull discovered under the foundations of Baldwin Hall to the hushed-up murder-suicide in Waddel. But in the course of investigating this hit-and-run, she will uncover more chilling secrets as she explores the sprawling, interconnected Greek system that entertains and delights the university’s most elite and connected students. The lines between Marlitt’s police work and her own past increasingly blur as Marlitt seeks to bring to justice an institution that took something precious from her many years ago. When threats against her escalate, and some long-buried secrets threaten to come to the surface, she can’t help questioning whether the corruption in Athens has run off campus and into the force and how far these brotherhoods will go to protect their own.
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Author
Lauren Nossett
Pages
320
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Published Date
2022-11-08
ISBN
1250843251 9781250843258
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"Detective Marlitt Kaplan enters the world of fraternities, brotherhood, and secret rituals when she begins to investigate an on-campus hit-and-run where the victim is the social chair of a prestigious frat.
Marlitt was a badass detective who could learn to follow rules and would probably succeed more in life. She had a wonton disregard for police procedures that keep the force in check. In the story, it's framed as her against a corrupt system, but if a real police officer went rogue like this, people wouldn't be pleased. Nevertheless, if there was a second book starring her or one of her fellow detectives, I'd probably read and still like it as long as the moral of the story wasn't so blatant (more on that in a bit).
I did like the writing style and the narration, but it seemed like the overall agenda of this book was to demonstrate why you should dislike fraternities, both from the storyline and from multiple internal monologues from the main character. I don't like frats either, I just don't need my stories to be so heavy-handed at teaching me things.
3 stars because I wouldn't recommend it, but I definitely think others would like it.
Thanks to NetGalley, Macmillan Audio, and Lauren Nossett for the ARC of this book. All opinions provided above are my own."
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