I Know You Know
by Gilly Macmillan
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (September 18, 2018)
From New York Times bestselling author Gilly Macmillan comes this original, chilling and twisty mystery about two shocking murder cases twenty years apart, and the threads that bind them.
Twenty years ago, eleven-year-olds 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.
For his whole life, filmmaker Cody Swift has been haunted by the deaths of his childhood best friends. The loose ends of the police investigation consume him so much that he decides to return to Bristol in search of answers. Hoping to uncover new evidence, and to encourage those who may be keeping long-buried secrets to speak up, Cody starts a podcast to record his findings. But there are many people who don’t want the case—along with old wounds—reopened so many years after the tragedy, especially Charlie’s mother, Jess, who 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, the disturbing discovery launches another murder investigation. Now Detective John Fletcher, the investigator on the original case, must reopen his dusty files and decide if the two murders are linked. With his career at risk, the clock is ticking and lives are in jeopardy…
My Rating:
Favorite Quotes:
If you can control
where an interview takes place, you are part of the way to controlling the
interview itself. Location matters. Fletcher’s wife announced she was leaving
him when they were in the Costco car park. He didn’t see it coming. He
remembers acutely the humiliation of loading bags into the boot of the car
while she explained across the laden shopping trolley that their marriage was
over. “Well, why are we buying in bulk then?” was all he could think to ask.
It’s a resting
place for cold cases, and Fletcher thinks of it as an archive of failure. For
every high-profile solve, there’s an unsolved crime shelved here. In each
tidily filed box, Fletcher thinks, there are not just papers, photographs, and
other case materials, but other things, invisible things. There are traces of
the open emotional wounds an unsolved crime leaves on the families and
detectives affected by it. There is also the shadow of something more rotten:
the person who got away with it.
Like a nodding dog
ornament on a dashboard, she moves her head laboriously to look at Danny.
Everything she does is so slow it makes Fletcher’s joints feel as if they’re
liquefying under the strain of being patient.
I said you’re a
prat, John Fletcher. Always have been, always will be. I’m fed up of you
strutting about like you own the place when you passed your sell-by date years
ago. The only time I’ll look forward to seeing you will be at your retirement
party.
I did a bit of
unscientific research on the subject—by which I mean to say that I looked it up
on the internet…
My Review:
I was unprepared for the twists and turns of the diabolically
clever Gilly Macmillan. Her fascinating
yet despicable characters were as compelling as the well-crafted storylines
they inhabited. They squeezed then
broke my heart while holding me captive to my Kindle as I hissed and huffed my
distress. No one was innocent, except
for the condemned patsy, and no one was as they had initially appeared, it was
brilliant.
Gilly Macmillan has strong word voodoo. Cunningly woven into this adroitly written
book were the gut-churning savagery of children, blackmail, police coercion,
nefarious manipulations, greed, ambition, corruption, and desperation. The
writing was exquisitely nuanced, the wily characters were deeply damaged and
irreparably flawed yet keenly described and depicted in a cleverly magnetizing
manner. It was riveting, yet tragic and
heartbreaking. I was enthralled and
even though she turned me inside out, I covet her mad skills and greedily want
all her words.
I was provided with a review copy of this stunningly well-crafted book by HarperCollins and TLC Book Tours.
About Gilly Macmillan
Gilly Macmillan is the Edgar Nominated and New York Times bestselling author of What She Knew. She grew up in Swindon, Wiltshire and lived in Northern California in her late teens. She worked at The Burlington Magazine and the Hayward Gallery before starting a family. Since then she's worked as a part-time lecturer in photography, and now writes full-time. She resides in Bristol, England.
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About Gilly MacmillanGilly Macmillan is the Edgar Nominated and New York Times bestselling author of What She Knew. She grew up in Swindon, Wiltshire and lived in Northern California in her late teens. She worked at The Burlington Magazine and the Hayward Gallery before starting a family. Since then she's worked as a part-time lecturer in photography, and now writes full-time. She resides in Bristol, England.
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