I Know You Know

by Gilly Macmillan

A podcaster with personal ties to two twenty-year-old murders returns to his hometown to investigate, but someone doesn't want the truth to come out -- and they will kill to keep it secret.

Twenty years ago, Charlie Paige and Scott Ashby were murdered in the city of Bristol, their bodies dumped near a dog racing track. A man was convicted of the brutal crime, but decades later questions still linger. Filmmaker Cody Swift has been haunted by the deaths of his childhood best friends; the loose ends of the police investigation consume him and he returns to Bristol in search of answers. Cody starts a podcast to record his findings, but there are people who don't want the case, along with old wounds, reopened so many years after the tragedy. Charlie's mother, Jess, decides to take matters into her own hands. When a long-dead body is found in the same location the boys were left decades before, Detective John Fletcher, the investigator on the original case, must reopen his dusty files. -- adapted from jacket

• ISBN10: 0062869191
• ISBN13: 9780062869197
• Publish Date: 18 September 2018
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 384
• Language: English

Reviews

[Amber]

I received I Know You Know as a review copy from NetGalley. Obviously, these are my honest thoughts and feelings about the book. I also posted this review on my book blog if you'd like to check it out!

I Know You Know caught my eye when it was released in the US last year, and I was really excited when I saw it was on NetGalley. I’d heard some really great things about this adult thriller and I was keen to get my hands on it!

What I didn’t know about I Know You Know was that it’s told, in part, in a podcast format. I wish I had known beforehand because I would have liked to try the audiobook. On paper, it was still an entertaining way to get the story across, but I do wonder how the audiobook would have enhanced the experience.

As for the thriller plot, I did very much enjoy it right up until the ending was revealed. I was completely hooked on the mystery of who killed the boys, and I have to admit that Macmillan did a fantastic job building tension and making me suspect a few different people. That said, towards the end things started to unravel a bit and it wasn’t one of the strongest endings I’ve ever read. The last thirty pages or so felt incredibly rushed, and the ending wasn’t all that satisfying.

I think that aside from the ending, Macmillan tied everything together really well, and I was really intrigued by the story for the majority of the book. I’d definitely be interested in seeing what else Macmillan has published, and what else she’ll be releasing in the future.

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