No-One You Know
Ellie Enderlin spent most of her childhood living in her sister's shadow. Lila was the good daughter - a mathematical genius who could do no wrong in their parents' eyes. Whereas Ellie was younger, wilder and could never quite match up. Until one day the shape of their family changes forever....
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Ellie Enderlin spent most of her childhood living in her sister's shadow. Lila was the good daughter - a mathematical genius who could do no wrong in their parents' eyes. Whereas Ellie was younger, wilder and could never quite match up. Until one day the shape of their family changes forever. Lila is brutally murdered. In the aftermath of her sister's death, Ellie entrusts her most intimate feelings to a man who betrays her utterly by turning the story into a bestselling true crime book - a book that both devastates her family and identifies one of Lila's professors as her killer. Twenty years later and two Americans meet by chance in a remote village in Nicaragua. Ellie is now a professional coffee buyer, an inveterate traveler and incapable of trust. Peter is the academic who saw his career ruined by being named as Lila's killer. He protests his innocence and 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 discover more about the lover no one knew Lila had, to the motives and fate of the man who profited from their family's anguish - and to the deepest secrets even sisters keep from each other.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780091928919 (0091928915)
Publish date: June 4th 2009
Publisher: Ebury Press (Fiction)
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Book Club,
Adult,
Mystery,
Drama,
Family,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Suspense
No One You Know is the story of one sister's search for the solution to her sister's murder many years earlier. Ellie Enderlin is 19, when her sister Lila--22 years old, a brilliant mathematician and something of a loner--is murdered. In her grief Ellie turns to Andrew Thorpe, her English professor,...
I don't know how to put it. Saying this book was a pleasant surprise doesn't seem to fit. It's so dark and so negative that saying it's a good story makes me kinda feel awkward. But it IS actually pretty good. Especially since this is supposed to be the author's first book. Some reviews pointed out ...
This book intricately weaved several stories into one. One part was Ellie's - her past, her present, her failures, her successes. Her character reminds me a little bit of myself: an avid reader with a love for coffee (in the book she's a cupper, she travels the world to find new coffees, something I...
I really enjoyed this book. It really flowed from start to finish. I usually find myself making up possible endings about halfway through a book like this but not with this one. I found I just wanted to hear the story. I wanted to know who did it but that seemed to lose importance at the end.I loved...
I enjoyed this enormously. The past-as-mystery element, the interwoven stories being told, the mathematics stories, the coffee.