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Someone We Know

By: Shari Lapena
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Robbie Daymond
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Brought to you by Penguin.

The gripping new thriller from the No. 1 bestselling author of The Couple Next Door.

It can be hard keeping secrets in a tight-knit neighbourhood.

In a tranquil, leafy suburb of ordinary streets – one where everyone is polite and friendly – an anonymous note has been left at some of the houses.

‘I’m so sorry. My son has been getting into people’s houses. He’s broken into yours.’

Who is this boy, and what might he have uncovered? As whispers start to circulate, suspicion mounts.

And when a missing local woman is found murdered, the tension reaches 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 secrets?

Maybe you don’t know your neighbour as well as you thought you did . . .

© Shari Lapena 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2019

 Crime Thrillers Domestic Thrillers Genre Fiction Psychological Small Town & Rural Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime

Critic Reviews

One neighbourhood, four couples, an amateur burglar and one dead body – this is a masterful whodunnit, perfectly paced and expertly plotted, that had me guessing all the way through. Like Desperate Housewives with bite. I loved it and couldn't put it down.
Shari Lapena just gets better and better.
Exactly what I love in a book: a small cast, an intricate plot worthy of Agatha Christie, with characters who stay in my mind long after the novel has finished. As for her writing – it was just perfect, as though Anne Tyler had written a thriller. No greater compliment can be given!
Shari Lapena has done it again. Someone We Know grabs you by the lapels on page one and doesn’t loosen its grip until the last sentence. Love the claustrophobic suburban neighbourhood where anything can happen behind those front doors.
I fell hook, line and sinker for this book, only surfacing back to reality after the final page. Shari Lapena is a writer at the absolute top of her game. Someone We Know was masterfully plotted, the suspense ratcheted up with agonising precision and the ending so satisfying I wanted to flip back through the pages to see how she managed it. Brilliant.
Someone We Know is a tour de force of thriller writing. Shari Lapena proves yet again that she is the mistress of the pacy plot, cliff edge tension and menacing suburban claustrophobia.
Gripping, smart and sympathetic, this is suspense at its finest.
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I didn't hold out a lot of hope for this book when it started but it got better after the first 3 chapters and then took off. I didn't much like any of the husband's but the author developed them well and made them largely unlikeable. The wives were understandable as characters.

A better story than I expected

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Thoroughly enjoyed my second novel from this writer. It was excellent, made my workouts and commutes much easier while listening to this.
The reader did a wonderful job with the different characters too. Look forward to another book.

Loved it.

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While I liked the story I found the drastic fluctuations in the reader's volume made it difficult to listen. Lowering the volume to protect my ears during loud speech made it nearly impossible to hear when her speech dipped to almost a whisper. I appreciate her attempt to place focus and create interest but the big changes in volume across the reading was just too much for me.
Overall I think the story was OK, my experience with the performance has, unfortunately, overshadowed any thoughts I may have had on the story itself.

Volume fluctuation makes it hard to listen

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I really enjoyed this. An excellent story with a number of twists that kept me guessing. The narration was wonderful.

Excellent

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most impressed with ending, certainly unexpected conclusion, would like to have seen victims husband go down for something but I guess that will be the next book. Thanks for an interesting read

so many possible guilty persons

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