Somebody I Used to Know
Jul 2015 · Penguin
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The bestselling author of Somebody's Daughter and Cemetery Girl, “one of the brightest and best crime fiction writers of our time” (Suspense Magazine) delivers a pulse-pounding thriller about a man who is haunted by a face from his past...
When Nick Hansen sees the young woman at the grocery store, his heart stops. She’s the spitting image of his college girlfriend, Marissa Minor, who died in a campus house fire twenty years earlier. But when Nick tries to speak to her, she acts skittish and rushes off.
The next morning the police arrive at Nick’s house and show him a photo of the woman from the store. She’s been found dead, murdered in a local motel, with Nick’s name and address on a piece of paper in her pocket.
Convinced there's a connection between the two women, Nick enlists the help of his college friend Laurel Davidson to investigate the events leading up to the night of Marissa’s death. But the young woman’s murder is only the beginning...and the truths Nick uncovers may make him wish he never doubted the lies.
When Nick Hansen sees the young woman at the grocery store, his heart stops. She’s the spitting image of his college girlfriend, Marissa Minor, who died in a campus house fire twenty years earlier. But when Nick tries to speak to her, she acts skittish and rushes off.
The next morning the police arrive at Nick’s house and show him a photo of the woman from the store. She’s been found dead, murdered in a local motel, with Nick’s name and address on a piece of paper in her pocket.
Convinced there's a connection between the two women, Nick enlists the help of his college friend Laurel Davidson to investigate the events leading up to the night of Marissa’s death. But the young woman’s murder is only the beginning...and the truths Nick uncovers may make him wish he never doubted the lies.
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4.3
22 reviews
Joe Slusar
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January 13, 2017
Well just finished the book and honestly, it was better than I had expected... BUT I will say the first hundred pages or so we're a little hard to get thru as the character and story development weren't 100% clear and a little dull at times. The book definitely threw me for a loop or two during the last 100 pages. Overall I'd say it was worth the read, but I don't think I would ever consider reading it again. My wife will be reading this next and I will update this review after hearing her take on it.
Deborah Craytor
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July 28, 2015
I've been hearing great things about David Bell for years and own several of his books, but the first one to make it to the top of my ridiculously high TBR pile (to the extent one can actually have a pile on an e-reader) was his newest, Somebody I Used to Know, a twisty, turny thriller about a man who discovers that his one true love may not have died 20 years earlier as he had thought. Nick Hansen sees Marissa's doppelgänger at the grocery store, but before he can discover her connection to Marissa, she is murdered, and Nick becomes the prime suspect. Bell gives the reader several possible explanations to chew upon, each of which seems equally plausible but none of which is as devious as the actual solution. Bell is an expert at weaving seemingly random events into a cohesive and satisfying plot, and his backlist has just moved to the top of my TBR stack. If his previous books are even half as good as Somebody I Used to Know, I'm in for a wild ride. I received a free copy of Somebody I Used to Know through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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Irene Simmons
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October 20, 2024
I have a natural copy of the book and I'm on chapter 9 and I like it. I would like to try to read more about the other books too if I can afford them
About the author
David Bell is a USA Today bestselling, award-winning author whose work has been translated into multiple foreign languages. He’s currently an associate professor of English at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where he directs the MFA program. He received an MA in creative writing from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and a PhD in American literature and creative writing from the University of Cincinnati. His novels include Somebody’s Daughter, Bring Her Home, Since She Went Away, The Forgotten Girl, Never Come Back, The Hiding Place, and Cemetery Girl.
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