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Someone We Know

Someone We Know, August 2019
by Shari Lapena

Pamela Dorman Books
304 pages
ISBN: 0525557652
EAN: 9780525557654
Kindle: B07N5J2H92
Hardcover / e-Book
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"Alarming suspense thriller reminding you, “Do you really know your neighbors?”"

Fresh Fiction Review

Someone We Know
Shari Lapena

Reviewed by Teresa Cross
Posted July 30, 2019

Thriller Domestic

SOMEONE WE KNOW is one of those thrillers that has not only an incredible storyline but also amazing happenings throughout each chapter. Written by Shari Lapena, known for other suspense thrillers, has outdone herself with this one. The story is told by the eyes of each of the characters that have important roles, however not enough is told that makes you see what is coming at the end. This novel even makes you stop and think about the people around you.

The whole story started because of a murder in a small neighborhood where everybody either knows everybody or knows of them. And if they don’t, then they are just about to find out. At the same time, a young teenager is breaking into homes and hacking into the homeowner’s computers. He probably knows secrets, but if he does, he is not telling. When his mother finds out, she leaves anonymous letters for the homeowners to let them know how sorry she is and that he has been taken care of at home. No one knows who he is.

With the break-ins and the murder, the whole neighborhood is on high alert, and the police are asking everyone questions to get to the bottom of the homicide. Will everyone’s secrets come out? At what cost will they pay to try to keep their own? The ending will shock you!

I love thrillers like this that shows scandalizing details among the characters leaving the storyline going any which way. However, Shari Lapena knows how to lead it in a way that you may not have guessed at all. As she wrote THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR and A STRANGER IN THE HOUSE, that I have also read, SOMEONE NEXT DOOR kept her to reputation as New York Times Bestselling Author!

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SUMMARY

The new domestic suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author, Shari Lapena Maybe you don't know your neighbors as well as you thought you did . . . "This is a very difficult letter to write. I hope you will not hate us too much. . . My son broke into your home recently while you were out." In a quiet, leafy suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into houses--and into the owners' computers as well--learning their secrets, and maybe sharing some of them, too. Who is he, and what might he have uncovered? After two anonymous letters are received, whispers start to circulate, and suspicion mounts. And when a woman down the street is found murdered, the tension reaches the breaking point. Who killed her? Who knows more than they're telling? And how far will all these very nice people go to protect their own secrets? In this neighborhood, it's not just the husbands and wives who play games. Here, everyone in the family has something to hide . . . You never really know what people are capable of.


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