You Know What You Did by K. T. Nguyen is a highly compelling, instinctually unsettling debut thriller. The author brilliantly explores complex themes of the mother-daughter relationship, mental illness, the immigrant experience, generational trauma and abuse. I was completely enthralled and on the edge of my seat until the very end of this book. A huge thank you to Penguin Group/Dutton Books, K. T. Nguyen and NetGalley for the advanced electronic copy of the book.

Annie Shawn (Anh Le) is a first generation Vietnamese-American that seemly has the perfect life. She is an artist married to her husband Duncan an award winning journalist and they have a 15-year old daughter, Tabitha. They live in a beautiful home in Virginia and are quite comfortable. But what seems like perfect rarely ever is. When Annie’s mother passes away suddenly it sends her into an emotionally downward spiral, and her life quickly starts to unravel. The OCD she thought she had under control is back and worsening. The relationship with her daughter is strained and unstable. Her beloved dog dies, and her husband is being unsupportive wants to go on an extended assignment to Syria. And when her art patron goes missing Annie is struggling to actually remember what happened and doubting her fractured mind. What did she do? Can she confront her past and survive her present situation?

You Know What You Did is a propulsive, heart pounding thriller with so many dizzying twist and turns. With an ending that will totally shock you. It is certainly a debut novel not to be missed out on.

This book took me a loooooong time to get into. Personally, it hooked me with the prologue, dragged a bit and then picked back up toward the end. I kept getting these little nuggets of excitement in the beginning but then would quickly go back to dragging. it goes over the same thing over and over again and that annoyed me. interesting "twist" if you don't get it from just reading. Not terrible for a debut and I would read another book from her. Would recommend if you want a slower read.

I am a SUCKER for mother/daughter relationships and relationship-driven suspense, so this book was RIGHT up my alley! YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID is a stunning debut—I was rapt from the very first page (from the dedication, actually). I loved the balance between character development and action, and the tension felt taut and present the entire time. Cannot recommend enough.

You Know What You Did by K. T. Nguyen was a wonderful suspenseful read!
This author does an excellent job of creating an atmospheric setting that adds to the tension of the story.
The writing itself is well done, and the pace keeps you turning pages.
The author's ability to create suspenseful settings and well-written characters makes this book worth reading. The setting & descriptions really put the reader in the action.
You Know What You Did is one I found myself pulled into quickly and unwilling to put down.

Thank You NetGalley and Dutton for your generosity and gifting me a copy of this amazing eARC!

This debut psychological thriller follows Annie Shaw, an artist living in Virginia with her husband and teenage daughter.  When Annie's mother dies, the obsessive compulsive disorder that she has had under control for years starts getting worse. Annie is falling back to her compulsions and can't trust what she's seeing/hearing. When a local heiress Annie was working for suddenly disappears, can Annie trust her memories that she had nothing to do with it?

I really enjoyed this debut thriller. KT Nguyen explores many different themes, from mental health, to immigration, to childhood trauma and family relationships. I really liked Annie as an unreliable narrator, and I found her experience with OCD to be really interesting. What made it even more interesting is how the author used her personal experience with OCD to shape some of Annie's experience. The chapters alternate between present and past, and I found the chapters dealing with Annie's childhood and her mother's perspective fleeing during the Vietnam War to be heartbreaking. 

Though I wasn't totally shocked by the twist, and I felt like parts of the story were a bit slow, I still really enjoyed this one.

In K.T. Nquyen's debut psychological thriller she tells of Annie who seems to have her life together until you peek behind the curtain to find her life spiraling after the death of her mother. Her OCD and mental health issue only seems to get worse with each challenging event in her life. Including her defiant daughter and her marriage that seems to be a loveless one.
This book was good but it was hard to get past the beginning which was slow and sometimes confusing but if you push on the story becomes easier and fascinating. Can't wait to see more from K.T. Nguyen.
Thanks Netgalley and Penquin Group DUTTON for the opportunity to read this book.

You Know What You Did is beautifully written and is a novel that stays with you long after you close it. It’s never boring but engaging!

You Know What You Did is Kt Nguyen's debut mystery psychological thriller!

Annie Shaw (Anh Le) is the protagonist, she is a Vietnamese American woman, a daughter, a mother, and a wife; she is an artist affected by OCD from her childhood and PTSD. She lives with her family and her dog Deja in Mount Pleasant, Virgina in a beautiful estate! She has a 15-year-old daughter, named Tabitha (Tabby) which looks too American in the eyes of her grandma.

At the beginning of the book, Annie is in mourning for her mother's death. No funeral, just cremation, handled by Duncan Shaw, Annie’s Rich Pulitzer War Reporter, and supportive husband. She is also planning an interview with a lifestyle magazine, a national reach!

Things fall apart when Ducan is going away for a war assignment and Tabby has a summer camp away from home. Annie, at home by herself, must deal with the disappearance of Byrdie (art patron and her friend) and the poisoning of her lover in a hotel room.

Annie is suspect number one!

Is Annie really a monster?

You Know What You Did is an intriguing, surprising, thrilling, and disorienting novel in a good way based on a true story that has been fictionalized.

You Know What You Did is about motherhood, a journey towards reconciliations between mother and daughter, between two different cultures. It’s a journey to reunify, abandoning the depths of darkness towards the light, it is a message of hope.

You Know What You Did refers to women, strong women who manage through their tenacity to make the difference. They didn't let themselves be discouraged by men's world.

It's highly recommended for adult readers interested in the Vietnamese Diaspora in Us, the trauma of the war and their Legacy and for avid thrillers.
Read it, I Know you will love it!!

Thank you so much for e-Arc copy to read and review it and thank you so much to Dutton Book and Net Galley.

Thank you, Netgalley,  K. T. Nguyen, and Penguin Group Dutton for the ebook! This book had me getting so frustrated and just feeling like I'm going insane. The twists and turns will have your head spinning.

This is a psychological thriller that dives deep into mental health and childhood trauma and its lasting effect. It is also a look into the refugee experience and how close the bond of motherhood is. There are some nightmarish elements that I think could be triggering for people, involving bugs/animals that thoroughly had me freaked out and left me squeamish! Overall, I really enjoyed this book! I think Nguyen does a great job setting this plot, keeping the reader in suspense and developing the characters and their backstories. That being said, some may find it a slow burn for that reason, but I didn’t mind that at all! I was in the story from the start and empathized with Annie on many things. I will say, I was able to guess the twist, but it did not take away from the reading experience one bit! I was still jaw dropped at Nguyen’s reveal! Highly recommend for thriller fans!!

This psychological thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat. Meet the Shaw’s a family that seems to have it all together. An award winning writer, a professional painter and a teenage daughter. When Annie begins to struggle to remember…anything it brings up uncomfortable questions. Does she know what she did? Did someone else do it? This domestic suspense novel will hook you right up until its conclusion.

This book was great! It had so many twists and had me thinking about it for days afterwards! The book does deal with some pretty heavy topics that could be difficult for some readers, so make sure to read up on that before you pick it up.

I loved the author's writing style and will definitely keep an eye out for more of their novels in the future!

I was worried for Annie the entire book. Not only was she having memory loss, her mother was abusive, her preteen hated her, and her husband was unsupportive because he always wanted to appear as the nice guy. Annie did not catch a break and as the reader we were supposed to find out what she did. I think where this didn't land for me was the meandering to show all the reasons Annie could be an unreliable narrator and/or shouldn't trust herself. What could have been done more concisely is that no character is all good or bad and you make decisions based on the information you have at the time.

I really liked the premise of this novel, as the idea of an unreliable narrator being unreliable because of internal factors that aren't necessarily malevolent or purposeful is always intriguing to me. That said I'm generally a bit wary of thrillers that use this trope and have mental illness as a plot device, as in this case our protagonist, Annie, is dealing with a surge of her disgust driven OCD. But Nguyen did a really good job with it, as not only does she herself have OCD (and therefore knows the ins and outs to an extent), but she is very careful not to make it feel like it's exploitative or that having OCD is some kind of melodramatic failing. I kind of figured out the mystery pretty early, but combining a sensitive exploration not only of OCD, but also of the way that generational trauma can reverberate throughout a familial line, I found YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID to be tense and suspenseful, as well as responsible in the story telling.

The first 35% of this novel is a deep dive into disgust-driven OCD which I found quite an uncomfortable read. Annie Shaw (Anh Le) is a Vietnamese-American, and an artist married to Duncan Shaw, who is an award-winning journalist. They have a 15-year-old daughter named Tabitha and live in a lovely home in Virginia. Annie's mother has recently passed away and it seems to have sent her into an emotional tailspin with her episodes of OCD worsening. Her relationship with her daughter is tense and volatile, her beloved dog dies a needless death, her arts patron is found murdered and now Duncan wants to take an extended assignment in Syria. Can Annie cope with all this?

That first uncomfortable 35% sets the stage well for an exciting suspense story. Who is behind all the bad things that are happening to Annie? Is she so mentally-ill that she just doesn't remember doing them herself?

Thank you to the author and publisher for an invitation to read an arc of this debut suspense novel via NetGalley. My review is voluntary and the opinions expressed are my own.

Thank you very much to Penguin Random House for inviting me to read this title early!

I wanted so badly to like this more than I did! There were so many parts of it that I found interesting and compelling--the view of generational trauma (not only between Annie and her mother but between Annie and her own daughter as well!), the incredibly messy portrayal of OCD that goes so much further than it typically does in media, and the examination of grief and guilt and anger and how difficult it can be to separate them when the lines start to blur.

Unfortunately, I thought that the story was pretty disjointed. Annie was obviously meant to be an unreliable narrator, and she was, but I think there were just way too many threads on the board for me to properly become invested in any of them. A lot of them didn't feel like they came together in a cohesive way and the end felt more over the top cartoon villain than anything else.

At the end of the day I think this would have made an incredibly compelling domestic drama, showcasing two parents who are unraveling for different reasons and the struggles that are born out of that. I think the thriller aspect kind of muddied the parts of the book that were the best!

I believe this is a debut, so I definitely wouldn't write off this author entirely! I see a ton of room to grow and I would absolutely pick up a future release.

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Annie’s perfect life on the outside is not so perfect inside, after her Mom passed her OCD is triggered again. This book takes you for a ride! You don’t know what is really happening and what is being imagined! ⁣
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Thank you NetGalley and K.T. Nguyen for the advanced copy!

What did Annie do? If the police are correct, more things than she can remember. This debut explores the trauma of exposure to war, the mother-daughter bond, the purpose of therapy, infidelity, and loss. Annie's once picture perfect life is disintegrating before her eyes. Her mother dies. Then there is more death. Is she responsible? Or is she being framed. You will want to keep reading to find out what is really happening. I did not guess correctly! Surprise! The narrative is told in multiple time lines including one entitled "Hotel." That is the one that kept me on my toes the most.

Thank you to Penguin and NetGalley for a DRC in exchange for an honest review.

3.5 stars. Compelling in its exploration of mental health and generational trauma but average in its prose and ending, <i>You Know What You Did</i> was an overall solid debut from a promising author.

The main character Annie Shaw the daughter of a Vietnamese immigrant, a refugee from the Vietnam War. Annie had a great life until her mother moved in. One morning, she finds her mother deceased Annie's life and mental state begins to suffer.

I was immediately drawn into the story. I enjoyed the entire book and especially the ending. I thought that I was ready for it, but it took me by surprise. If you are a thriller/suspense reader I recommend this book to you. I cannot wait to see what K.T. Nguyen comes up with next.

My thanks to Penguin Group Dutton, The Author, K.T. Nguyen as well as NetGalley, for the opportunity to read an early copy of You Know What You Did.

Annie “Anh Le” Shaw is living a much different life now as a married woman and mother than she lived growing up. When her mother, a Vietnam War refugee, suddenly dies, Annie's begins to struggle. Diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, she begins to have symptoms and soon, more in her life begin to die. Is her brain making the deaths happen? Is something else going on? When her patron dies, the investigation begins to eye Annie. When she wakes up next to a lifeless, she has no idea what happened, only that her daughter needs her.

SLOW BURN ALRET! I do not do well with slow burns. Having said that, I did enjoy this book despite my struggles with the slowness. This book does have many twists and turns toward the end. I did not see that reveal coming at all! Total shocker for me! This book touches on many things: culture, the relationships between mothers and daughters, mental illness, deception, the refugee experience, secrets, and marriage.

I did enjoy the eerie vibe and tension in this book. I also enjoyed the portrayal of the various relationships in the book. I just wished it had a slightly faster pace.