This is a clever whodunit with enough layers and suspects to keep me guessing right up to the end. A teenage boy has a secret habit that unknowingly exposes his neighbor’s darkest secrets. When his mother sends anonymous notes to her neighbors warning them, she stirs up a hornet’s nest of secrets and lies. Then a neighbor’s wife is found dead. Are the two events related? As the police investigate it becomes clear that lies are being told, but who is lying and why? The dynamics among the small p...

I don't feel like I have a lot to say about this one, other than I really enjoyed it, and I think fans of thrillers that feature in depth character study and traditional, reliable mysteries will too. It's refreshing to be able to stumble across suspense novels today that are more than the sum of their twists, and while Someone We Know definitely keeps you guessing until the end, it's not a one hit wonder. Highly recommended to those readers who want to get back to their roots of finding a read t...

4 Stars.Deceit, lies and a whole lotta stink eye! Shari Lapena sure knows how to get a reader’s attention! A teenage boy covertly breaks into his neighbors homes and hacks their computers. Anonymous letters of apology are sent to the neighbors whose homes are broken into.A woman’s body is found and her husband and all of the neighbors are suspects. Who is your friend and who is your enemy? Sorry, I’m afraid that I cannot tell. Don’t fret, this isn’t your neighborhood..Well played Ms. Lapena! I w...

I've really come to enjoy Shari Lapena's writing style, and for me, this is her best story yet.Someone We Know takes place in a tranquil suburb of New York. Robert Pierce reports that his beautiful young wife Amanda is missing. Did she leave on her own or has something sinister happened to her? The police arrive in the neighborhood, and proceed to unearth the residents' every secret. And there are so many, because everyone has something to hide.Lapena has the most interesting style. It's sparse

What a neighbourhood! Seemingly quiet and middle-class on the surface but behind closed doors, there are affairs, secrets, a teenage boy breaking into their houses and a missing woman later found murdered. Lapena keeps us guessing as the murder suspects pile up and the police keep changing their focus. Some of the characters are not very likeable and some seem pleasant enough but are hiding unpleasant secrets. An engaging, suspenseful read with enough twists to keep the waters muddy until the mu...

."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." A teenage boy who breaks into his neighbors’ homes to look around and hack into their computers. A woman down the street reported missing by her husband is later found dead....Who is the young hacker and who killed the woman? I found this book to be extremely enjoyable. Everyone has secrets. Even if you think you know your neighbors, do you truly know

3.0 stars— Despite being all over the place with my reviews of Ms. Lapena’s first three books, I absolutely loved her last book, “An Unwanted Guest.” So, I decided to give her latest book , “Someone We Know” a try. Like all of Ms. Lapena’s books, “Someone” was a very fast paced read. It centers around the murder of Amanda who has caused turmoil in her neighborhood since she and her husband Robert moved in. Of course there is a list of suspects that continuously gets longer as the story unfolds.

4.5⭐️ rounded up to 5Raleigh Sharpe has been breaking into his neighbours homes. He doesn't steal anything. He just wants to see if he can hack into their computers. His mother, Olivia finds out about the break-ins and leaves anonymous notes to let the home owners know what her son has been up to. But one of of her sons victims I'd dead. As the news of Amanda Pierce's death spreads, the list of suspects grows. Her husband and some of her neighbours are under suspicion. Each have area son why the...

This was better than I expected. It's a tight, short and addictive mystery. At the centre of the story is Amanda, who is found dead toward the beginning of the novel. The story is then told from the many points of view of people in her neighbourhood who live in a tangled web of secrets. What I liked most about Someone We Know is how Lapena tells the story. We move quickly from one point of view to another. Layers of secrets and lies are revealed one after the other. It's never clear whether peop...

I had just read a sad historical novel and this book was just what I needed to purge the sad. There is something about a murderous thriller, one where I really didn't bond with any of the characters but at the same time was able just to sit back and enjoy the show. In a quiet, middle class suburb, philandering Amanda, a young wife, is murdered and of course her husband is the first to be suspected of killing her. But this novel shines an unfavorable light on a lot of the neighbors and my inquisi...

Neighbors lurking, anonymous apology letters, and scandalous rumors spreading like wildfire! I love a Shari Lapena novel and this one kept me entertained and guessing throughout. I am still wanting to discuss the end! I think I swiped my kindle several times after the last paragraph. What?The premise of murder in a cozy neighborhood has been a theme in the genre lately and I thought I knew where this was going, BUT it takes so many swerves and has such a perfect pace that I was eager to find

I'm not even sure where to start or even what to say about this one. It was an entertaining and quick read but I wasn't too fond with the way a few things played out in the end. So I'm going to leave it at that.Once again this was a Traveling Sisters Read and I was one of the few that didn't enjoy this book as much as others did in the group. So with that being said, please don't let my thoughts sway you from picking this one up. Thanks so much to Edelweiss, Pamela Dorman Books, and Shari Lapena...

Three point five rounded up four my head is spinning right now, so fast pacing, never ending twits knocked me out and now I start to see cartoon birds flying around my head, where I am, who I am, why the hell did they read this, for deep frying more grey cells left on my brain stars! Seriously what an entertaining whodunit book, till the last moment you don’t know who is guilty, questions flying, revelations confuses you more. Raleigh breaks and enters to the neighbors’ houses for snooping aroun...

4 stars! Dripping with suspense!Neighbourhood gossip and hidden secrets makes this an addictively gripping and thrilling story that was impossible to put down. In a quiet subdivision where everyone knows everyone, there has been a string of break-ins. A teenager has been sneaking into houses and hacking into personal computers. Secrets are uncovered. Then a neighbour is found dead in the trunk of her car. Could the exposed secrets uncover who is responsible for the murder? Whose secrets will be

I was looking forward to reading this book but regret I am in the minority. I was disappointed. Many readers seemed to enjoy it, so prospective readers should not be deterred by my review. I thought it was a step down from her previous book. I failed to connect with any of the characters and none were particularly likeable, I found the characters flat and defined mainly by their secrets, gossip, infidelity, coverups, or who they suspected of the crime. There were a lot of twists in the plot, but...

I am so very late to this party so I won't bore you with a re-cap because you all have read this already. But what I will say is that this book is FUN!!!By far my favorite Lapena yet. This book was the equivalent of a juicy soap opera. Lies & secrets. Secrets & lies. Everybody has them and the skeletons spill on nearly every page. I couldn't flip the pages fast enough. 4 *scandalous* Stars! Thank you to Edelweiss and Pamela Dorman Books for providing me with a digital ARC in exchange for my hone...

4.5*I’ve read some pretty intriguing 'bad neighbor' books... but this neighborhood just raised the bar! My For Sale sign would be immediately planted, and the only thing in my rear-view mirror would be skid marks and tire smoke as I make my get away!🚙Pranks have a way of going wrong. Just ask Raleigh! Your typical juvenile delinquent whose particular brand of fun include breaking into neighbors’ homes to hack into their computers. It looks like he may have just ended up breaking into the wrong h...

I was really excited about this thriller because I love Shari Lapena and the story started off so promising. This is a very fast-paced, easy to read thriller about this neighborhood. We follow a few different families - the story opens with a woman being murdered in the neighborhood and this couple Olivia and Paul find out their son has been breaking into people’s houses and hacking into their computer. The police begin a search into the murder of this woman in the neighborhood and secrets get r...

What would you do if you accidentally discovered your lazy but so loveable teenage son has a dangerous hobby of breaking into your neighbours ' houses and hacking into their computers?Would you consider writing an anonymous letter to apologise for his wrongdoing? Just to make sure that his prank e-mails do not have serious consequences? Isn't it a decent thing to do? and if we, parents, do not do what is moral and decent, how can we expect our children to learn what is right and wrong? This is

The town of Aylesford in New York State's Hudson Valley is an affluent community where families know one another and have the occasional neighborhood party. It was at the last communal barbecue, about a year ago, that new arrival Amanda Pierce - a gorgeous young brunette with long tan legs - caught everyone's eye. "All the husbands had watched her, practically drooling, stumbling over one another to hand her things" while the wives looked on trying not to appear annoyed. Now Amanda's handsome hu...