Do I Know You?
A Novel of Suspense
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Publisher Description
“A fabulous read packed with suspense, unexpected twists, glamour and humor. Prepare to be gripped from the first to the last page!” —Liane Moriarty
For readers of Lisa Jewell, Liv Constantine, and Megan Miranda, a lightning-paced psychological thriller that the New York Times Book Review says "kept me reading, near breathless, until all assumptions were gloriously upended" about two women, a tragedy that connects them as teenagers, and the terrible reckoning that will decide their fates a decade later
Jane Ellison is a “super recognizer” able to identify strangers by the slightest facial details—the curve of a head, the arch of an eyebrow. When she spies human rights activist and heiress Bella Valencia in a crowded Boston airport, Jane’s convinced she’s found the person responsible for her sister Kit’s disappearance and presumed death eleven years earlier. But her attempt to detain the suspect ends with Jane herself fired and humiliated.
As Bella prepares to marry Will Pease, scion of the uber-wealthy, influential, and ruthless Pease family, famous for their wholesome wellness and lifestyle brand, on their private Cape Cod island, she grows increasingly anxious that her dire secret will be revealed and used against her by—of all people—the man she loves.
She has reason to fear: Jane is ready to risk everything for the chance to publicly expose Bella’s crimes at her upcoming celebrity wedding. But the more she digs into what happened that night, the more she questions her own assumptions.
Combining magnetic, wise-cracking narration and a skillfully layered plot, Do I Know You? is a gripping psychological thriller and tale of redemption that reveals the power of a sister's love.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Boston Homeland Security agent Jane Ellison, the protagonist of this entertaining suspense novel from Strohmeyer (The Secrets Lives of Fortunate Wives), is ready to risk everything to finally discover what happened to her older sister, Kit, last seen one night 11 years earlier looking wasted after partying with other teens on the beach near their family home on Cape Cod. Jane's gift as a "super recognizer" (someone able to ID strangers from the tiniest facial details) has convinced her the person she glimpsed that night with Kit was Bella Valencia, beloved adopted daughter of the Kennedyesque Pease clan. Bella, who now runs the Peases' nonprofit in her native Colombia, has just gotten engaged to sexy scion Will Pease, townie Kit's secret romance the summer she vanished. An ostensibly vacationing Jane, aided by her boyfriend, attempts to sleuth in her former stomping grounds without attracting the attention of the prickly Peases. Though the plot becomes a mess of red herrings, triple crosses, gaslighting, and worse, spunky, self-deprecating Jane and the skewering of the superficially woke but fundamentally clueless Peases save the day. Strohmeyer knows how to keep the pages turning.