Someone We Know

In a quiet, leafy suburb in upstate New York, a few residents open their mail to find an unsettling anonymous letter. The writer is apologizing: their son has been breaking into homes while the owners were out. He wasn't only walking through the rooms, either. He was getting into their computers and learning what people had kept private.

The neighborhood's nerves fray fast. Nobody knows who the teenager is, what he found, or whom he might have told. A second letter arrives, whispers begin to travel from porch to porch, and neighbors who once traded pleasantries start watching each other more closely. Then a woman who lives down the street is found murdered, and curiosity turns into real fear.

Who killed her, and who knows more than they're admitting? In this community, secrets aren't limited to troubled marriages. Every member of every household seems to be hiding something, and the people with the most to lose may go a long way to keep it buried.

Shari Lapena, author of The Couple Next Door and Not a Happy Family, builds another domestic suspense novel on one uneasy question: how well do you really know the people living beside you?