Allison Buccola is the author of The Ascent and Catch Her When She Falls.
She has a JD from the University of Chicago and lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband and their two young children.
[Q&A with Allison Buccola; The Page 69 Test: Catch Her When She Falls; Writers Read: Allison Buccola; The Page 69 Test: The Ascent]
At CrimeReads Buccola tagged "seven books that play with identity in a variety of fun ways and feature some of the different types of imposters that appear in thrillers." One title on the list:
The Likeness (Tana French): The Doppelgänger.Read about the other entries on the list.
Tana French’s The Likeness features another unsettling device in suspense fiction, the doppelgänger. Detective Cassie Maddox arrives at a crime scene to find a victim who looks exactly like her. She uses the resemblance to her advantage and goes undercover as the victim, moving into the beautiful manor house the victim shared with four other students and inserting herself into the uncomfortably close-knit group. In stories where the protagonist is the look-alike imposter, the question of whether she is actually fooling anyone looms large. Who is really deceived, and who is only pretending, hiding secrets of their own?
The Likeness is among Anna Snoekstra's seven titles built on the weight of a shared secret, Louise Hegarty’s eight Irish novels about the rise & fall of Big Houses, 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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