4 stars, typical Lisa Scottoline book, I received this as a ARC.for an honest review. Great for people who read suspense.

Someone Knows


A gripping tale of a teenage secret that shattered the lives of five teenagers forever.

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SUMMARY
Allie Garvey is heading home to the funeral of a childhood friend. Allie is both grief-stricken and full of dread. Going home means seeing the other two people with whom she shares an unbearable secret.

Twenty years prior, a horrible incident shattered the lives of five teenagers, including Allie. Drinking and partying in the woods, they played a dangerous prank that went tragically wrong. 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.

For the past twenty years the dark secret has haunted and eaten away at her. Allie now stands at a crossroads. She’s ready to learn how the prank went so horribly wrong. She digs to unearth the truth, but what she finds is a shocking conclusion that she never saw coming.


REVIEW
In your youth, did you every do anything really, really stupid? Kids just do things, they get caught up in the moment, caught up in peer pressure, and the next thing you know, something terrible has happened. SOMEONE KNOWS is a thought-provoking story of teenage mistakes, the kind of mistakes that tend to stay with you the rest of your life.

The teenage drama, dysfunction and angst in the first portion of the book made me think I was perhaps reading a young adult novel. But the story moves on in the second part of the book. The book has tons of characters and you may need to make a list to keep up...but it’s worth the effort! LISA SCOTTOLINE’s writing does not disappoint. The story is intriguing and the character development is well-done. You may not like some of the characters, but if everyone was perfect would you really even have a story! It’s a robust story and Scottoline has plenty of tricks up her sleeve.

Lisa Scottoline is a #1 Bestselling Author, The New York Times bestselling author and Edgar award-winning author of 32 novels.. 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. Thanks to G. P. Putnam/Penguin, Netgalley and Lisa Scottoline for an advance reading copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Publisher G. P. Putnam/Penguin Random House
Published April 9, 2019
Review www.bluestockingreviews.com

If you’re looking for a fast paced thriller with some twists and turns you’ll love this newest book from Scottoline. Four high school “friends” play an awful prank on a new boy that ends in tragedy. The repercussions are still being felt 20 years later when memories start to unravel.

Death by murder, death by suicide, death by disease. While the subject matter may be hard for some, Lisa Scottoline does not disappoint.
A solid 4 star read. This stand alone novel, is a page turner that will keep you on the edge of your seat. While the story had several intertwined plots, the characters were well developed, some likeable, some you’ll despise. The twists and turns of the story were unexpected and conclusion will shake you to your core.

With all the twists and turns among the main characters, it was a slow read for me in the beginning. Five Young teenagers mixed up in a prank that turns deadly. On the 20th anniversary of the prank, another one of the teenagers dies. While I always enjoy reading Scottoline, this title is not my favorite.

Readers wanting a dark psychological thriller will definitely enjoy this story. It begins quite slowly as the characters are introduced one by one. Readers will get a picture of each through their thoughts and actions. Since there are many characters, at times things are confusing. There are lots of twists and turns in this story, some believable and some not. Dark subjects run throughout to include depression, suicide, pedophilia, voyeurism and destructiveness. Also, family dynamics play a large part in the story. Recommended.

I am a big fan of Scottoline's stand alone books. I can always depend on her to give lots of twists and turns in her plots. This book was very entertaining about a prank gone wrong for a group of teens. I really enjoyed this book!! I have this book on order because I have many patrons who are fans.

Great title for book discussion group. A horrible prank gone wrong haunts the teens who were part of into their adulthood. Can see discussion building around guilt and the weight of as talking about how each character was shaped by their involvement.

Someone knows all right and I dare you to predict who that individual is, even up to the final pages of this book.
The book, in the beginning reads as a young adult novel as we watch five 15 year olds all struggling with identity and experimenting with young love. Oh, but reader is is much more complicated than that.
This demonstrates how a single event from your past can derail your present.

Allie Garvey is heading back to her childhood home town to the funeral of a high school 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 prior, a horrific incident shattered the lives of these five teenagers, including Allie who is the voice of the story. 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. She is haunted every single day by that single event of her childhood. It affects every aspect of her grown up life, especially relationships. This dark secret has eats 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 has been a life sentence.

After the death of the second of the five teens, David is found dead, apparently by suicide and 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 she reaches a shocking conclusion that she never saw coming—and neither will you reader.

Even though I read the book in only a few days, I felt it progressed slowly, but I was never bored with the progress, always waiting for the next shoe to drop. And it does!

I hope that the advance copy I received was not it the final stages of the editorial process, because this doesn't read as if it was professionally written.

There are tons of grammatical errors (run-on sentences, an over-abundance of commas), unpolished sentence structure, and poorly-formatted dialog (there are several lengthy exchanges in which it is hard to note a change of speaker).

More importantly, there are also problems with plot structure and with character development. There are too many "major characters" in a story that was ultimately about 5 teenagers - the rest of the players should have taken a backseat to those five. So many entire chapters are dedicated to the thoughts and backstories of minor characters, people who will simply disappear mid-way through the book. They will disappear with no resolution to their personal dramas - I didn't need to meet David's entire family, Sasha and Julian's mothers, Kyle's mother, and likewise I didn't need to spend the second half of the book getting to know Allie's husband so intimately. That wasn't necessary, especially when I felt like I barely knew Allie herself.

The story needs a good editor before it's published, not only to clean up and clarify the writing itself, but also to weed out the unnecessary chapters that drag down the plot. I'm so sorry to complain, but this one just didn't live up to expectation.

Someone Knows will keep it's unexpected secret until the end. Lisa Scottoline has written a great book with twists and turns that carry the suspense throughout.

Lisa Scottoline never disappoints. This book kept me guessing until the end. I will confess the conclusion was a little bit out there but not enough to ruin the story.

15 year old Allie was out running one summer day on the track near the Brandywine Hunt development in Chester, PA where she lived. She fell and was helped up by another runner, the beautiful and popular Sasha. The girls soon saw 2 other boys, David and Justin, covering up a hole in a wooded area. The boys then explained that Justin had discovered a gun hidden in newspaper in the hole and showed it to the girls. Everyone was sworn to secrecy.

Each of these kids had problems. Allie was still grieving from the death of her sister a year earlier. Sasha was being raised by caretakers as her parents traveled for work most of the time. Julian’s Dad’s company had built the development and spent his weekends shuttled between his divorced parents. David’s father owned an optical store that was failing. However the 4 of them bonded over the discovery of the gun and snuck out of their houses at night to play the gun.

Then a new kid, Kyle, moved into the neighborhood and made friends with Sasha. Julian, who was secretly in love with Sasha, was not happy when Sasha invited Kyle, another troubled 15 year old, to join them in the woods. Alcohol was present at the parties and one night a game of Russian Roulette turned into a fatal accident. The four survivors were swore to secrecy, made it appear as a suicide and fled.

Twenty years elapsed and the survivors met up again at one of their funerals . Allie, like the others, had been damaged physically and mentally by holding the secret for so long. She decided that it was time to tell the truth.

This is a story of how mistakes made as young teens can have disastrous effects their lives for many years after. I enjoyed it and was anxious to find out what really happened that night 20 years before. The author has written a well crafted thriller and added some surprises at the very end of the book. I doubt many amateur sleuths will figure out what really happened before they finish the book.

This ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Lots of plot line twists and good character development kept me quickly turning the pages. Lisa Scottoline is one of my favorite thriller writers and this book does not disappoint. #netgalley

I whipped through this book. Lisa Scottoline has always written books that I love, but this was especially appealing to me. I preferred the first part when the teen agers' lives were described so vividly. I found the teens to be realistic and felt sympathetic to alk of them. The second part of Someone Knows was a bit “out there”, but the writing is so good, I could suspend belief and jyst go with the story.

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Ok, I must confess. This was my first Lisa Scottoline book. I feel like I have been missing out. Someone Knows is a well crafted story that keeps the pages turning.
Without giving much away, 20 years ago a group of friends pulled a prank that left someone dead. Fast forward, the friends are together again for a funeral. Was the accident years ago really an accident? What about this latest death? Allie needs to find out, but at what cost?
A really good, solid, fast paced story that will leave you wondering why you didn’t see it!
Excuse me now, I need to go and find all of Lisa’s other books that I have guilty overlooked!

Ver good book. Will definitely keep your interest until the day d. There were a few surprising twists that kept me guessing!

Really enjoying Lisa's stand-alone books. Once again set in Chester County & Philly, Lisa delivers a great mystery based on four friends - one cruel, one entitled, one deadly and one well=meaning - who share a secret - & their families who have a lot of secrets to hide. The story culminates into a deadly ending but she finally reveals all at the end.

Allie Garvey was always on the outside. Usually unnoticed or snubbed because of her weight, she is thrilled when the popular neighborhood kids start to include her. However, their friendship comes at a cost, and when one of their games goes horribly wrong, Allie is left with a searing guilt and fear of discovery that costs her everything. Now, twenty years later she returns home to attend the funeral of one of those "popular" people, and the secret she's been carrying all these years begins to unravel, with deadly consequences.

Scottoline has done it again! And how! Highly recommended!

I won a galley through a Shelf Awareness giveaway, yay! Thanks for the opportunity to read an early copy! :)