Someone Knows Book Review

After discovering Vi Keeland’s captivating style through “The Unraveling Book,” I became a devoted fan! I had eagerly anticipated reading “Someone Knows,” and when the moment arrived, I devoured it.

About Someone Knows by Vi Keeland

An English professor’s deadly past comes back to haunt her in this chilling and sexy thriller from #1New York Timesbestselling author Vi Keeland.

As a college English professor, Elizabeth looks forward to the start of each new semester teaching her creative writing seminar. At least until she reads chapter one of TheReckoning, a tale about a high school senior who has an affair with her teacher. To anyone else it would be the beginning of a great page-turner, but to Elizabeth it is the beginning of the end.

She knows this story. It’s all familiar because she lived it. The girl in the story was her best friend Jocelyn, and Elizabeth knows exactly how the story will end—with the professor dead. Because she was the one who killed him.

Someone knows what Elizabeth did twenty years ago and her secret is about to be exposed, but who is the mystery student submitting the chapters? In an effort to find out, Elizabeth returns to her Louisiana hometown where it soon becomes clear that no matter how many years have gone by, she can’t escape her past.

It releases officially on June 17, 2025, but you can preorder it now.

Disclosure: Thank you to Netgalley and Atria Books | Atria/Emily Bestler Books for the ARC in exchange for my honest review of this book.

My Review of Someone Knows Book

Vi Keeland is a well-known romance author, but she has decided to dip her toes into the thriller arena. I feel like she did a remarkable job.

While Someone Knows had a slow start for me, it became quite interesting once I got into it. I also think the slow start had a bit to do with me since the primary character has dealt with sexual abuse. As a sexual abuse survivor, I had to adjust my mindset to read it.

While I had pretty much figured out who was doing it, there were just enough things mentioned to make me doubt myself just a bit. But the ending does leave me hoping there is more to come.

I do recommend this book. I like Vi Keeland’s book.