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Someone Knows
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.
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.
Pages: 387
ISBN: 9780525539643
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Mary S.
Apr 3, 2026
Alley Garvey is haunted by a secret pact that she made 20 years ago that left a teenager dead, when she was just 15. As the story starts, Ally is attending the funeral of David, a former neighbor and pact member in the present day. But then the story jumps back to twenty years ago and that's where the 1st half of the book lays. We learn of Ally's childhood and the other pact members and their childhoods and we meet Kyle, the victim. We get a real sense of Ally and her pain and suffering even before the trauma as we learn of her sister Jill's death from Cerebral Palsy and her Mother's nervous breakdown afterward. Each chapter is written from a different viewpoint of a different character and it bounces around a bit.
Finally in the second half, we get to present day and back to David's funeral. Ally is tired of the secrets. Her life is unraveling and she can't deal with the terrible secret anymore and wants to come clean, no matter what the consequences. But the other 2 remaining pact members are vehemently against it.
I enjoyed the Philly references because I'm from Philly! The story was ok - sort of predictable. Normally I don't mind chapters told by different characters back and forth but it did seem to drag on in the first half of the book.
Finally in the second half, we get to present day and back to David's funeral. Ally is tired of the secrets. Her life is unraveling and she can't deal with the terrible secret anymore and wants to come clean, no matter what the consequences. But the other 2 remaining pact members are vehemently against it.
I enjoyed the Philly references because I'm from Philly! The story was ok - sort of predictable. Normally I don't mind chapters told by different characters back and forth but it did seem to drag on in the first half of the book.