Someone Knows - Lisa Scottoline

Someone Knows

By Lisa Scottoline

  • Release Date: 2019-04-09
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4
4
From 1,442 Ratings

Description

Bestselling and award-winning author Lisa Scottoline reaches new heights with this riveting novel about how a single decision can undo a family, how our past can derail our present, and how not guilty doesn't always mean innocent.

Allie Garvey is heading home to the funeral of a childhood friend. Allie is not only grief-stricken, she's full of dread. Because going home means seeing the other two people with whom she shares an unbearable secret.

Twenty years earlier, a horrific incident shattered the lives of five teenagers, including Allie. Drinking and partying in the woods, they played a dangerous prank that went tragically wrong, turning deadly. The teenagers kept what happened a secret, believing that getting caught would be the worst thing that could happen. But time has taught Allie otherwise. Not getting caught was far worse.

Allie has been haunted for two decades by what she and the others did, and by the fact that she never told a soul. The dark secret has eaten away at her, distancing her from everyone she loves, including her husband. Because she wasn't punished by the law, Allie has punished herself, and it's a life sentence.

Now, Allie stands on the precipice of losing everything. She's ready for a reckoning, determined to learn how the prank went so horribly wrong. She digs to unearth the truth, but reaches a shocking conclusion that she never saw coming--and neither will the reader.

A deeply emotional examination of family, marriage, and the true nature of justice, Someone Knows is Lisa Scottoline's most powerful novel to date. Startling, page-turning, and with an ending that's impossible to forget, this is a tour de force by a beloved author at the top of her game.

Reviews

  • I love Lisa Scottolini

    4
    By Tennessee Book Lover
    Good mystery with lots of surprises. Has characters that you will like and empathize with. Was a little long at times.
  • Slow & a bit repetitive but good twist at the end!

    3
    By AGoodFamily
    Slow & a bit repetitive but good twist at the end!
  • Loved the ending

    5
    By Regina1683
    Nice twist
  • Thoroughly an enjoyable bookh

    5
    By A weird sister
    I have read many books by this author. The books always pull me into the story and I can’t put it down until I know everything. This book opened up the other side of the crime and how it impacted their lives. Well done, heartfelt and as convoluted as life’s events are. I want more! Thank-you Lisa Scottoline for sharing your stories with us.
  • Good

    4
    By Promise316
    Overall good
  • It was good until it became a novel of cliches

    2
    By MissJI
    (SPOILER ALERT) I was really into it until things started to be revealed and bodies started dropping for no good reason. I was DONE by end when I realized it was chock full of ridiculous cliches: young white make serial killer...CHECK...blind bombshell who is a total beotch...CHECK...only person of color is a “strong” black woman but oh she also happens to be irrationally angry and goes off on the sweet, innocent, contrite white female and becomes the bad guy...CHECK...young brown-haired brown-eyed innocent even when she’s guilty, does-no-wrong girl-next-door heroine...CHECK...underappreciated good guy swoops in to save the day and win the girl...CHECK. Come on. And this whole business about Allie forgetting that she saw her own dad loading a gun and putting it to his head after sister died and her mom was committed to a psych ward? Come on. And did Julian really have to kill his dad and Mac for no reason? What was the point in that? It started off well but ended up being just as corny as her other books.
  • Ugh!

    1
    By Muttley67
    Like others, I usually love her books. This story line was way too choppy. All of the chapters of characters got to be really drawn out. I skipped to the end and I do not do that.
  • Boring

    1
    By stgoldb99
    The only thing good about this book was finally finishing it. A total waste of my time and money.
  • Someone knows

    1
    By globagronertneyjock
    Marly from the movie marly an me dies in the movie marly and me. Still chill still chill still chill (P.S I’ve never read this book don’t take this seriously)
  • Someone Knows

    1
    By Slisa72*
    Normally love anything from Lisa Scottoline. Not this one. Storyline was weak and unbelievable. Save your money and more importantly your time. Very disappointed.