Books Tagged With literary mystery
Title: No One You Know
Publisher: Random House Books
Summary:
"Heartbreaking and compelling...a thoroughly riveting literary mystery." Booklist, starred review
"An intelligent, emotionally convincing tale about a family tragedy and the process of storytelling." The Boston Globe "Richmond follows her compulsively readable The Year of Fog with an equally addictive encore." The Denver PostAbout the Book
All her life Ellie Enderlin had been known as Lila’s sister. Until one day, without warning, the shape of their family changed forever. Twenty years ago, Lila, a top math student at Stanford, was murdered in a crime that was never solved. In the aftermath of her sister’s death, Ellie entrusted her most intimate feelings to a man who turned the story into a bestselling true crime book—a book that both devastated her family and identified one of Lila’s professors as the killer. Decades later, two Americans meet in a remote village in Nicaragua. Ellie is now a professional coffee buyer, an inveterate traveler and incapable of trust. Peter is a ruined academic. And their meeting is not by chance. As rain beats down on the steaming rooftops of the village, Peter leaves Ellie with a gift—the notebook that Lila carried everywhere, a piece of evidence not found with her body. Stunned, Ellie will return home to San Francisco to explore the mysteries of Lila’s notebook, filled with mathematical equations, and begin a search that has been waiting for her all these years. It will lead her to a hundred-year-old mathematical puzzle, to a lover no one knew Lila had, to the motives and fate of the man who profited from their family’s anguish. A novel about the stories and lies that strangers, lovers and families tell—and the secrets we keep even from ourselves. For fans of Alice Sebold, Kate Atkinson, and Gillian Flynn.
