Do you have any idea what the people you know are capable of? Bestselling author of All My Lies Are True, Dorothy Koomson, asks how well you can really know your neighbours. Fans of Lisa Jewell and Louise Candlish will rip through the pages of this addictive new thriller.
What if all your neighbours' secrets landed in a diary on your doorstep?
What if the woman who gave it to you was murdered by one of the people in the diary?
What if the police asked if you knew anything?
Would you hand over the book of secrets?
Or... would you try to find out what everyone had done?
I Know What You've Done is the unputdownable thriller from the Queen of the Big Reveal.
Title: I Know What You've Done
Author: Dorothy Koomson
Published By: Headline
Publication Date: 8th July
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Our Review
The first thing I need to mention is that I would hate to live in Acacia Villas as I just wouldn’t know who to trust. The second is that I'm a huge Dorothy Koomson fan and every time I finish one of her books, after a period of reflection - I still haven't got over some of the shocks from her last book All My Lies Are True, - I am then chomping at the bit for the next one.
I Know What You've Done is Dorothy's 17th novel and begins with an intriguing prologue about a woman called Priscilla who knows that someone is going to kill her she just doesn't know how or when.
Priscilla is not well liked in the neighbourhood as she tends to look down on everybody but while she outwardly appears to be completely uninterested in her neighbours at Acacia Villas she certainly knows a lot about them. When she turns up bleeding on another woman called Rae's doorstep the tension begins, and so does the mystery of who would want to kill her. Rae is tormented because Priscilla had uttered the words 'I know what you've done' and told her that she'd written everything in a book she had in her hands and that she was going to hand it to the police. But then she falls and drops the notebook in Rae's hall. Rae hides the book but is then torn because she wants to find out what Priscilla knew about her and the other neighbours but she is also consumed with guilt and fear as she knows she should have handed it over to the police. The more time passes the riskier it becomes as she then feels she can't hand it over because she will be in real trouble especially as she needs to know what it is exactly that Priscilla knows about her and everybody else. I found myself shouting to her to hand it in as the tension was mounting and my heart was palpating.
The chapters are headed by the names and house numbers of the neighbours, each one with something to hide and a reason to want to shut Priscilla up once and for all. The tension and intrigue is constant and the story moves along at a really fast pace. Visiting each house through Priscilla's eyes the neighbours stories begin to unravel as Rae reads the book and discovers the secrets and lies and crimes that have been committed between and against them all.
The backdrop to the story mentioned the pandemic without actually mentioning it as such in that it was referred to without too much detail and I think that as in reality everybody's lives had been affected by that and that some of them perhaps weren't acting as they would have done pre-pandemic.
As with all Dorothy Koomson books there are shocks as secrets from the past are revealed and you begin to realise that nobody really and truly knows what others are capable of.
Can't wait for the next thriller from Dorothy
Sincerely
Book Angel x
About the Author
Dorothy Koomson is the award-winning author of 15 novels and has been making up stories since she was 13 when she used to share her stories with her convent school friends. Her published titles include: Tell Me Your Secret, The Brighton Mermaid, The Friend, When I Was Invisible, That Girl From Nowhere, The Flavours of Love, The Woman He Loved Before, Goodnight, Beautiful and The Chocolate Run.
Dorothy’s first novel, The Cupid Effect, was published in 2003 (when she was quite a bit older than 13). Her third book, My Best Friend’s Girl, was selected for the Richard & Judy Summer Reads of 2006 and went on to sell over 500,000 copies. While her fourth novel, Marshmallows For Breakfast, has sold in excess of 250,000 copies. Dorothy’s books, The Ice Cream Girls and The Rose Petal Beach were both shortlisted for the popular fiction category of the British Book Awards in 2010 and 2013, respectively.
Dorothy’s novels have been translated into over 30 languages, and a TV adaptation loosely based on The Ice Cream Girls was shown on ITV1 in 2013. After briefly living in Australia, Dorothy now lives in Brighton.
In 2019 Dorothy was awarded the Image Award by The Black British Business Awards to celebrate and honour her achievements.
For more information on Dorothy Koomson visit www.dorothykoomson.co.uk
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