Someone Knows by Vi Keeland on June 17, 2025
Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / General, Fiction / Romance / Suspense, Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Pages: 288
Format: ARC
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Someone Knows by Vi Keeland is a dark psychological thriller that had me flipping pages late into the night. It’s fast-paced, binge-worthy, and sure to be a perfect summer read.
Elizabeth is a creative writing professor, which means her job is to wrangle metaphors, inspire future novelists, and gently suggest that maybe not everyone needs to write about sentient fruit or coffee mugs. But one day, a student’s paper lands on her desk—and it feels a little too real. As in, suspiciously real. It might be less “fictional masterpiece” and more “confessional memoir with a plot twist.”
The student, Hannah, turns in chapter after chapter that eerily mirrors Elizabeth’s life from 20 years ago—a past she’s tried to keep buried. Now Elizabeth is on a mission to find out who Hannah is and how she knows everything. The list of people who could’ve spilled her secret isn’t long, so we hit the road with Elizabeth as she hunts down the truth.
Along the way, she meets Noah, a charming younger man who unexpectedly worms his way into her life. What Elizabeth doesn’t know at first is that Noah is the son of the man she killed two decades ago. She knows getting involved with him is a terrible idea—but she can’t help being drawn to his dangerous allure. Her attraction might just lead her down a path she can’t escape.
This book moves fast and pulls you in quick, even if a few things feel a little too easy to guess. I clocked who was behind everything pretty early on, and Elizabeth’s thing with Noah? It’s got some serious heat but also made me go, girl, are we sure about this? The story leans more into romantic suspense than full-on thriller, with a handful of men circling around Elizabeth like it’s a competition. There are definitely some darker, almost erotic-thriller elements that give it a twisty edge. The final reveal didn’t totally blow my mind, but it was clever and wrapped things up in a way that felt earned. This one totally reminded me of a cross between Frieda McFadden and Mary Kubica with the type of twists it gave.
Big thanks to NetGalley and Atria Books/Emily Bestler Books for providing an eARC in exchange for my honest review.