ARC by NetGalley and the publisher.
A dedication in an anonymous thriller book stating “I know what you did, Petal Woznewski. And now everyone else will, too.” With those two sentences Petal is thrown into her past and to secrets she has kept buried for thirty years. Traveling back to her hometown was suppose to help give her answers but instead it has left her with more questions as she hunts to find the author. The synopsis and plot sounded new and exciting, I had high hopes but sadly I feel disappointed especially because the beginning of the book was so strong. This book while being on the shorter side was a challenge for me to get thru as I could not stand the main character Petal. The book itself is written well and there are some twists especially at the end but for me I just could not get past my dislike of Petal to be able to enjoy this book. Everything Petal did either felt very selfish, immature (despite her age), and the continued mentions of her “smoking” just turned me off.

I Know What You Did comes out July 18, 2023.

Thank you again NetGalley and Crooked Lane Books for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

In I know What You Did we follow petal, all she’s trying to do is live a quiet life away from the things that haunt her from her teenage past. But when a bestseller book has her name on it and it’s telling a horrible story about the murder of her teenage best friend. Petal goes on the hunt to find the mystery author who has gotten so many things right from what happened that night except for the real way her friend died.⁣
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This novel kept me guessing, its a mystery novel that’s going to have you unraveling it and you’ll want more as you continue to read. I do have to say it’s a bit of a slow burn but I was pleasantly surprised by the ending.⁣
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Overall I would say this is a good read for mystery lovers!

DNF’d. Just not for me - it’s a pretty run of the mill thriller, but the voice of Petal was very grating to me. I think others will enjoy it, just not my cup of tea.

I devoured this mystery in one day. I Know What You Did was a fast paced story that had me hooked immediately. Petta's personality was sarcastic, edgy and soft in the middle. I adored her, although I think she smokes way too much pot! I love how the book follows the mystery from New York to Minnesota with hidden clues along the way. I truly thought I "knew" who she was searching for the whole time, and I was wrong. Which, of course, made me like the book even more.

Thank you NetGalley, Crooked Lane Books and Cayce Osborne for this eARC in exchange for my honest review.

Truly loved this fun mystery with a messy, quirky hero at the heart of it. Imagine the worst thing that ever happened to you as a teenager became a bestselling novel - and you were the only person named - and blamed. Petal Woznewski (great name!) finds her life turned upside down when this happens to her and she’s forced to go back home to Wisconsin to figure out who is truly out to ruin her life.

This was a truly fun, funny, quirky mystery/thriller with an incredibly memorable hero at the heart of it that you'll be sad to say goodbye to. Take this one on vacation!

I really loved the premise of this book and wanted to get into it. But it was slow for me and dragged on.
Petta/Petal finds a book written about her. She returns to the town hat she grew up in to figure out what is going on. The book goes back and forth between the present and the past. I like it overall, but just wasn’t wowed! Would definitely read more by this author. I loved the character he created in Petta.
Thank you

Wow. Wow. Just wow. This book had me hooked from the start. From the very first chapter. I have never read a book like this. Petal or Petta is such an interesting character. When you find out the backstory and why she is the way that she is.

And Gus? Ugh love him!

Now the twist I can honestly say I didn't see it coming. At all.

This book was for sure a journey and I really enjoyed it. I really did.
If you're looking for a good mystery and one hell of a journey then pick us this book. You won't regret it!

I Know What You Did

I read this enjoyable mystery in two days. Petal Woznewski is living her life in NYC after growing up in Madison WI. She’s a quiet middle aged woman with a job that pays enough to support her. She has few friends, but does have her sometimes off again, on again friends with benefits, Gus.

During her annual visit her gyny, he tells her about a book she should read that has a character with her name. That is unusual, given her unusual name. How many Petal Woznewskis can there be in the world?

She tries to avoid the book, No One Suspected, but it seems to keep popping up to confront her. Finally, she decides to read it and it is about her and her very secret past. What we have is a book within a book. It’s a fast moving story and one that will leave you turning the pages as fast as you can. Petta, as she likes to be called now, returns to Madison to find the mysterious author and why he/she knows so much about her secret past. Only three people know the tale and one of them is dead. The remaining two swore never more to talk about the death of their friend.

I thoroughly enjoyed I Know What You Did and this delightful novel will keep you wanting answers too.

Many thanks to Netgalley and Crooked Lane New York for allowing me the pleasure of reading this mystery.

Thanks to the publisher for my copy - all opinions are my own.

This particular story fell a TAD flat for me. Largely because try as I might, I kind of did not like Petal as a character, and I struggled a lot with her approach to the mystery at the center of the story. Her see-sawing back and forth from avoidance of the book/issue to travelling to her hometown to try to solve the mystery herself seemed to happen back and forth at breakneck speed and made little sense. I was exhausted and frustrated by the fact she would claim to be ready to solve who the author was, would then get a clue and immediately decide she should ignore the clue altogether because she just didn't want to know who the mystery author was.

I also HUGELY struggled with her desperate need to keep hidden an incident from her school days, that in the end felt not that significant of a situation. The payoff of the mystery did not satisfy me personally.

Overall, decently entertaining.

This was a super quick read for such a slow burn thriller.

When Petal is inundated with people reading a book that tells the story of her childhood, she freaks out and needs to get to the bottom of it. Unable to find the real author of the book, she is determined to uncover the truth considering the book tells the story of the death of one of her childhood friends, a death that she vowed never to speak of again… to anyone.

While this was a palatable read, it was very formulaic in the sense of the events and the dominos that fall in just such a way to tell a story like this. Protagonist must go back to her home town and dig up secrets long since buried, never knowing who to trust.

I found it a little strange the way the author felt the need to really emphasize the amount of pot the protagonist consumes. Coming from a regular pot smoker myself, I still found it odd that it was in countless pages of this book like a word count was meant to be hit and that was a way to hit it…

Ultimately, I enjoyed this one and could totally see it through my mind’s eye as a movie playing out. I enjoy when an author can paint a clear picture for you.

I really enjoyed this book!

I Know What You Did tells the story of Petal and the aftermath that follows after a book release blames her, by name, for a death that occurred 30 years earlier. Obviously, she has to investigate and chaos ensues!

I thought the pacing of this book was good. I liked that the chapters had excerpts from the fictional book within as well! It never got too dull or repetitive and kept my attention from the first page! The big reveal at the end was a surprise I did not see coming.

Overall, I Know What You Did is a quick fun read that is prefect for thriller readers! It gives you a lot of action and detail without being drawn out.

Thank you to NetGalley and Crooked Lane Books for the opportunity to read this ARC!

Another awesome read. I enjoyed this one a lot - the introduction instantly had me hooked. I loved the tone and cadence of Petal’s narration, as well as her complicated relationships with her friends & Gus. I thought I had the who-fun-it pegged, but I was surprised when it all unfolded at the end. A lot of unique mysterious twists in this made it fun and engaging all the way through. I also loved that it was a succinct ~200 pages. A quick and fun read!

I Know What You Did by Cayce Osborne is a captivating, suspenseful and entertaining novel!
A fast paced story that pulls you in from the beginning.
I enjoyed the characters and felt interested in their life and everything that was going on.
The twists are perfectly devious and paced out exceptionally well.
The pacing of the plot is propulsive and results in a page turning mystery that is extremely enjoyable.

"I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own."

Thank You NetGalley and Crooked Lane Books for your generosity and gifting me a copy of this eARC

What would you do of you goud a book accusing you of murder ? Thos book kept me interested the whole time, I really enjoyed the writing style when everything was coming to conclusion it kept me exciting but still guessing.

I absolutely loved this book. It hooked me and kept me turning pages until I was done. Finished it in two days! The character development was strong, and the premise was unique enough that it didn't feel like anything else I've read.

Thank you NetGalley and Crooked Lane Books for the copy of I Know What You Did by Cayce Osbourne. I loved the premise of a woman discovering she is accused of a long ago murder in a best-selling novel about the death of a teenager. She goes back to her hometown to try to figure out who wrote the book and why. I loved the idea of this book, but the execution was rough. Petal is not a sympathetic character and she spends a lot of time drinking and smoking weed, while trying to avoid her on again off again lover back home. The book excerpts were a nice touch, but didn’t feel compelling enough to warrant a bestseller. Even though I see others saying it was predictable, the end kind of came out of nowhere for me. I won’t give spoilers, but it was an anticlimax.
This is a debut, I loved the premise and it *did* keep me reading until the end, so I will check out other books by this author.

This story grabs you from the beginning and takes you on a wild ride all the way to the end. The main character Petal is flawed but likeable. She struggles to deal with her past and move on which gives her that realistic quality you want in a character. All the while, the cast of secondary characters surrounding her may not be who they seem, and it's impossible as a reader to know who she can trust. Overall, a wonderful and engaging psychological thriller.

Biggest comment I really have is that the flow and some of the plot does not work very well. I still was not able to put this one down though because I was just as focused on finding out who was behind the book that named Petal Woznewski as someone who hid the murder of her former best friend from when she was a teenager. I gave this 3.5 stars, but rounded up to 4 stars for Goodreads.

I have to say that the plot was interesting. Petal finds out about a bestselling book that names her as a murderer of a fictional girl. However, Petal realizes that the person who wrote the book may have changed some of the names, but is definitely speaking about an incident that occurred when she was a teen. However, details are also changed, and she's only one of two people alive who knows what happened. The book follows Petal as she tries to figure out who has brought up her past and why.

Petal was a hard character at first. Her life sounds dreary. She has a friends with benefits situation going on and I felt for the guy she was seeing. She also seemed to be high as a kite through a good 80 percent of this book. I hope you like reading about her smoking a joint or doing a bowl and what she is eating/drinking because that comes up a lot. I imagine she did not smell that great. But I don't know if the book following her thought processes was written to reflect her being high/drunk on purpose, or if that was just an unfortunate side effect. I didn't start to really get her as a character until we got to the 60 percent mark. Where she started to share what happened to her as a teen. It may be hard for readers to get enmeshed in her story.

The other characters are slightly developed. I really wanted to get why Petal's love interest was into her. I was not seeing it at all. I wish we had more details about her upbringing and her aunt. We just got bites of information here and there which could lead you to conclude some things, but I like my stuff nicely spelled out at times when the book is a quagmire.

The writing was solid, noting really jumped out at me. The flow was pretty awful though. I just got tired of reading that Petal was high or drinking or eating a cheese pizza or how dirty/grungy she was. Once again people, I started wondering about how badly she had to smell.

The ending was a surprise with the reveal we got and the reason behind the book. It felt a bit like R.L. Stine to me since the reason why was some murder YA mess he would have gotten into via one of his Fear Street books. Not a bad thing, I love those books still as an adult.

Absolutely brilliant, totally gripping book. I could not put it down ! Imagine the absolute panic and fear at finding your name written into a bestseller - especially when other names had been changed! I found myself second guessing who was behind the book all the time. This was a book I picked up at every available opportunity- even in shop queues

Imagine picking up a book with your unique name as the lead character and it fictionalizes the death of your childhood best friend, casting you as the villain.

I found this such an interesting premise for a thriller/mystery book. And Petal? Ok, she wasn't perfect. She didn't like reading. And I can't relate to that. But she was fun and as we get more into the depths of her past, you can see why she's running. Now it takes quite a bit to get into what really happened the night Megan dies. And by that, I mean we don't find out until there's a small bit of book left.
And then we are in the final downward spiral. I have to say, I can almost always guess the twist but I didn't see this coming. With everything the author tossed at us, I had only one suspect the whole time. And it would've made quite a twist. But the author did it better.
For me, this was a hard to put down and carry on with life until I could pick it up and finish up read.