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jennboch's review against another edition
3.0
I liked the book. But it focused on math formulas alot which I found I was skipping over.
beastreader's review against another edition
4.0
Twenty years ago Lila, Ellie Enderlin's sister disappeared, only to turn up a few days later died. Who would want to hurt Lila? Lila was a top math student at Stanford. Ellie obtains in her possession a notebook belonging to her sister that is filled with tons of mathematcial equations. Ellie is now on the hunt to solve the puzzle and Lila's murderer.
Along the way Ellie meets a man by the name of Andrew Thorpe. He is curious about Lila's unsolved murder and asks Ellie questions. The next thing Ellie knows, Andrew is writing a book about Lila titled "Murder by the Bay".
This is my first book by Michelle Richmond. I thought it was a good one. The only thing I had with it was at first it confused me a little when Ellie would flash back to the past and than the present, otherwise I liked how the story line came together. I thought I had the killer figured out but I was wrong. You won't belive who the murderer is and what his relationship is to Lila.
Along the way Ellie meets a man by the name of Andrew Thorpe. He is curious about Lila's unsolved murder and asks Ellie questions. The next thing Ellie knows, Andrew is writing a book about Lila titled "Murder by the Bay".
This is my first book by Michelle Richmond. I thought it was a good one. The only thing I had with it was at first it confused me a little when Ellie would flash back to the past and than the present, otherwise I liked how the story line came together. I thought I had the killer figured out but I was wrong. You won't belive who the murderer is and what his relationship is to Lila.
deborahbabin's review against another edition
2.0
Not my favorite book. She talks a lot about how a book should be written & how people write a lot of useless detail... she wrote a lot of useless detail. I felt it could be about 100 pages less.
ridgewaygirl's review against another edition
4.0
This was the ideal vacation read. It was diverting, without requiring my undivided attention. In it, a woman looks for her sister's murderer, after the man who she thought was the culprit convinces her of his innocence. It's pretty much a standard thriller/mystery novel, but it's well-executed, well-written and well-plotted, which is enough to make it a stand-out in a very crowded field. Refreshingly, the conclusion didn't involve the protagonist putting herself into jeopardy, the killer being unnaturally evil or the person a lesser novelist would have chosen. No One You Know was fun, and while I suspect I'll have forgotten it in a few months, it was good enough for me to want to find a copy of the author's other book.
annhenry's review against another edition
3.0
I enjoyed this book. It ended up being a mystery/thriller but in a low key way. Sometimes the math got a little heavy handed and the ending wasn't what I expected I found the book easy/enjoyable to read.
andreagraves5's review against another edition
4.0
I enjoyed this mystery. There were interesting characters and a cool plot.
19paws's review against another edition
4.0
Very moving and beautifully written. In this book, Michelle Richmond examines the complexity and evolution of stories and story telling in the same way that she looked at the complexity of memory in The Year of Fog. I think I liked this even better than TYoF. (And, of course, I loved that the author poked fun at herself by having her protagonist give a somewhat lukewarm review of that earlier novel.) It’s a great story—a good literary mystery—and the little snippets about coffee and mathematics added to my enjoyment of this book.
misajane79's review against another edition
4.0
Beautiful novel about sisters, death, and coffee. And a few other things as well. I couldn't remember why I had put this on my to-read list, and I wasn't exactly eager to start it, but I flew through this book. It's a rich, layered story that doesn't have any false notes. It would have been so easy to end things in a neat little bow, and she didn't. Highly recommended.
mrsfligs's review against another edition
4.0
Ellie Enderlin is a professional coffee buyer whose life is influenced by one event: the murder of her sister Lila twenty years earlier. After a chance encounter during a coffee buying trip, Ellie decides to conduct her own investigation into Lila's death, which was never officially solved. However, doing so forces her to confront the truth of her family, her relationship with her sister, and her own isolation. Complicating matters is Ellie's own guilt for unwittingly contributing to a true crime book written about her sister's murder, which has unduly influenced Ellie's own thinking about the event. Although this description might make the book sound like a straightforward "by the books" thriller, it really is more than that. Although Ellie does conduct her own investigation (as only people in novels seem to do), the book deals with the complicated emotions surrounding the murder of a loved one as much as it does with the "whodunit" aspect. I thought this elevated the book above your standard mystery/thriller, and Richmond does a great job of working in little details about coffee, math, music and writing that add interest to the story. Most of all, Richmond does a wonderful job making Ellie a fully rounded character, which is so often lacking in books of this ilk. The book is a solid and satisfying read, and I would recommend it without reservation. An added little bonus in my edition was the author's No One You Know playlist, which includes songs either referenced in the book or that capture its spirit and setting. I think Michelle Richmond has pretty good taste in music!
Excerpt: Lila was like an unfinished novel—two hundred pages in, just when you're really getting into the story, you realize the rest never got written. You'll never know how the story ended. Instead, you're left with an abrupt and unsatisfying non-end, all the threads of the plot hanging loose.
Rating: 4 stars
Excerpt: Lila was like an unfinished novel—two hundred pages in, just when you're really getting into the story, you realize the rest never got written. You'll never know how the story ended. Instead, you're left with an abrupt and unsatisfying non-end, all the threads of the plot hanging loose.
Rating: 4 stars