Review: Someone Knows by Lisa Scottoline

Title: Someone Knows

Series: Stand-Alone

Author: Lisa Scottoline

Genre: Adult, Domestic Thriller, Mystery, Suspense

Publication Date: April 9th, 2019 by G.P. Putnam's Sons

Format: e-arc

Source:  I received this book when there was a Penguin First Program and publishers in exchange for an honest review.

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From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a pulse-pounding domestic thriller about a group of friends who have been bound for twenty years by a single secret—and will now be undone by it. Someone Knows is an emotional exploration of friendship and family, as well as a psychological exploration of guilt and memory.

Twenty years ago, in an upscale suburb of Philadelphia, four teenagers spent a summer as closest friends: drinking, sharing secrets, testing boundaries. When a new boy looked to join them, they decided to pull a prank on him, convincing him to play Russian roulette as an initiation into their group. They secretly planned to leave the gun unloaded—but what happened next would change each of them forever.

Now three of the four reunite for the first time since that horrible summer. The guilt—and the lingering question about who loaded the gun—drove them apart. But after one of the group apparently commits suicide with a gun, their old secrets come roaring back. One of them is going to figure out if the new suicide is what it seems, and if it connects to the events of that long-ago summer. Someone knows exactly what happened—but who? And how far will they go to keep their secrets buried?

*** I received this book when there was a Penguin First Program in exchange for an honest review.  Thank you so much to Penguin First Problem and G.P. Putnam's Sons Publisher for the chance to read and review Someone Knows! *** 

This is the first book that I read by Lisa Scottoline and it most definitely won't be my last Lisa Scottoline that I will read. Now there are mix reviews of this book and I understand why readers didn't love this book. But I loved and enjoyed reading Someone Knows to me it was a great domestic thriller about a group of people that have held a deep secret for Twenty years, and this deep secret can destroy their lives and careers if it ever gets out especially to the police.  Now I will warn you all the characters are very unlikable characters that I just wanted to backslap them in the heads and scream at them at how wrong their actions and words are so wrong in so many ways towards there own friends and family members when there were teenagers. And I know something really bad was going to happen when one of the boys in the group of friends find something buried in a hole in a field behind there houses. I really didn't like that specific boy because I thought he was a complete and utter psychopath, by the way, he was acting and overly obsess and stalking over a girl who is a complete and total  ignorant witch of a girl that she thought she was better than anybody who was part of there little group. Now I won't say the names of the characters in this book because it would be a spoiler.  But there were to very bad apples in this group of teenagers and there were the very wealthy teenagers who didn't have a care in the world and both of them egg each other in bad ways always. So when one night when all the teenagers were drunk and high something very horrible and terrible happens that night and they all went their separate ways and didn't talk to each other in high schools years and kept the very darl secret that happens that horrible night.  Now twenty years have past and three of the four reunite for the first time since that horrible summer for a funeral of one of their friends that was part of their small group when there were teenagers. Now after the funeral, things started to go down but go down for the worst possible way for one of the characters who want to tell the truth on what happened that terrible summer night.  But someone wants to keep their mouth shut for good even if it means to kill that specific person.  Now I am going to leave off here without being too spoiler but all and all I highly and love and enjoy Someone Knows that I can't wait to read more books by Lisa Scottoline in the future. 

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Lisa Scottoline (Author)

Lisa Scottoline is The New York Times bestselling author and Edgar award-winning author of 30 novels, including her #1 bestselling, AFTER ANNA. She also writes a weekly column with her daughter Francesca Serritella for the Philadelphia Inquirer titled “Chick Wit” which is a witty and fun take on life from a woman’s perspective. These stories, along with many other never-before-published stories, have been collected in a New York Times bestselling series of humorous memoirs including their most recent, I Need A Lifeguard Everywhere But The Pool. Lisa reviews popular fiction and non-fiction, and her reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Lisa has served as President of Mystery Writers of America. Lisa graduated magna cum laude in three years from the University of Pennsylvania, with a B.A. degree in English, and her concentration was Contemporary American Fiction, taught by Philip Roth and others. She graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School where she taught a course she developed, "Justice and Fiction." Lisa is a regular and much sought after speaker at library and corporate events. Lisa has over 30 million copies of her books in print and is published in over 35 countries. She lives in the Philadelphia area with an array of disobedient pets, and she wouldn’t have it any other way.