Twenty years ago, Nick Hansen was in love with Marissa
Minor. They were
college kids, together for a couple of years, his one true
love, or so Nick
thought. One day, she told him he needed to be done with
her. No friends,
no anything. She was leaving school and him. Two days
after that, she
died in a fire at her college dorm. SOMEBODY I USED TO
KNOW fast
forwards to twenty years later and Nick is just getting
by. He has never
gotten over Marissa. He thinks of her all the time and
then one day he
sees a girl in the grocery store that looks just like
Marissa.
Emily could be Marissa's twin. Of course, Nick tries to
talk to her and she
runs away. A few days later she is found strangled to
death. She has no
identification, no cell phone, no wallet, no anything.
The only thing the
police find on her is a piece of paper with Nick's name
and address on it.
Nick quickly becomes a person of interest not just
because of the piece of
paper but because he was the last one seen with her.
SOMEBODY I
USED TO KNOW is filled with hate, relationships, secrets
and lies. What
connects these two women to Nick and is he the reason why
they are both
dead? What is the truth behind Emily's startling
resemblance to his ex-
girlfriend? And more importantly, what really happened to
Marissa?
Here begins Nick's journey into the past as he tries to
figure out who this
young woman was and why she looks just like his ex. We're
they related?
Could she possibly be Nick' s daughter? The timing isn't
right for that as
Emily was born a few months after The fire. Why did
Marissa break up
with him right before she died and why did her family
suddenly pack up and
leave town after that? Was it simply too painful to remain
or was there
something else going on? SOMEBODY I USED TO KNOW will
keep you
guessing with every page you turn. Will Nick ever be able
to let go of
Marissa and move on with his life? Will he get the
answers he has been
looking for, for the last twenty years?
SOMEBODY I USED TO KNOW is filled with twists and turns
that will have
you forgetting everything you are supposed to do until you
reach the very
last page. I read it in one sitting and found myself
saying "no way" over
and over again as each clue is revealed. I love when an
author can do that
to me and David Bell sure knows how to rope the reader in.
I've never read
David Bell before but now I'm going to read all his
previous books as well.
If you love a suspenseful read you will really enjoy
SOMEBODY I USED
TO KNOW.
The breakout author of The Forgotten Girl and Cemetery
Girl,
“one of the brightest and best crime fiction writers of
our
time” (Suspense Magazine) delivers a new novel about a man
who is haunted by a face from his past....
When Nick Hansen sees the young woman at the grocery
store,
his heart stops. She is the spitting image of his college
girlfriend, Marissa Minor, who died in a campus house fire
twenty years earlier. But when Nick tries to speak to her,
she acts skittish and rushes off.
The next morning the police arrive at Nick’s house and
show
him a photo of the woman from the store. She’s been found
dead, murdered in a local motel, with Nick’s name and
address on a piece of paper in her pocket.
Convinced there's a connection between the two women, Nick
enlists the help of his college friend Laurel Davidson to
investigate the events leading up to the night of
Marissa’s
death. But the young woman’s murder is only the
beginning...and the truths Nick uncovers may make him wish
he never doubted the lies.
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