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Someone We Know

by Shari Lapena

Secrets behind the suburb’s closed doors

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    A New York Times bestseller

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    Shari Lapena, a New York Times bestselling author

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Secrets behind the suburb’s closed doors

In an upstate New York neighborhood, a teenager’s break-ins extend beyond homes to residents’ computers, exposing private information and unsettling the community. Anonymous letters bring the intrusions into the open; after a woman is found murdered, neighbors face questions about what they know and what they are concealing. The setup links a domestic crime investigation with the fallout of privacy breaches, placing suspicion within a community whose familiar routines offer little reassurance. Family secrets and the gaps between public respectability and private behavior shape this psychological thriller.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers of psychological thrillers centered on neighbors, families, and suspicion.
  • For readers interested in domestic mysteries involving secrets and a murder investigation.

Themes

Privacy and intrusionFamily secretsNeighborhood suspicionDomestic crime

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Book overview

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

"Lapena's books are addictive!"--Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid

"Shari Lapena is far and away one of the best psychological thriller writers in the world...She is intensely bingeable." --Lisa Jewell

Another thrilling domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door and Not a Happy Family

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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