✍ Scribed by Michelle Richmond
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Starred Review As in her previous two novels, Dream of the Blue Room (2003) and the best-selling Year of Fog (2007), Richmond turns a family crisis into heartbreaking and compelling reading. Ellie Enderlin has never recovered from the unsolved murder of her sister, Lila, a Stanford math prodigy, some 20 years earlier. The day her sister went missing has become “the touchstone from which all other events unfurled.” Compounding the tragedy is the fact that her English professor, the person to whom she confided some of her most intimate feelings about her shy, private sister, has turned the tragedy into a best-selling true-crime book. To have those moments turned into fodder for the public’s voyeuristic appetite has felt like another violation. When Ellie, a world traveler and coffee buyer, meets up unexpectedly with the brilliant mathematician implicated in her sister’s murder, she sees it as a way to wrest back control of her own narrative and solve the crime. Richmond gracefully weaves in fascinating background material on the coffee culture and the field of mathematics as she thoughtfully explores family dynamics, the ripple effects of tragedy, and the importance of the stories we tell. Combine all that with perfect pacing and depth of insight, and you have a thoroughly riveting literary thriller. --Joanne Wilkinson
“Michelle Richmond’s encore toThe Year of Fog is an equally addictive read.”—*Denver Post
“Richmond sets out to create not a straight-up thriller, but a novel that explores love, family, work, guilt and the responsibility of the writer to his or her subject, all within the framework of a murder mystery.” — San Francisco Chronicle
_“Michelle Richmond never strikes a false note inNo One You Know.... It's an intelligent, emotionally convincing tale about a family tragedy and the process of storytelling.”—_Boston Globe*
“As complex and beautiful as a mathematical proof, this gripping, thought-provoking novel will keep you thinking long after the last page has been turned.”— Family Circle
"Beautifully written"—*Seattle Times
“Gripping”— People
"Heartrending and immediately readable"— San Francisco Examiner*
“Another enjoyable blend of mystery and domestic fiction…. Quietly captivating.”— _Publishers Weekly
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“Richmond has a knack for creating accessible, grippingly authentic characters….No One You Know a tautly drawn tale.”—*East Bay Express
“Richmond turns a family crisis into heartbreaking and compelling reading…. Riveting.” — Booklist*, starred review
“Intelligent, emotionally convincing…Michelle Richmond never strikes a false note in No One You Know. ”—*Boston Globe
“Richmond’s fiction is made rich by the relationships between her characters and the carefully researched nuances of their lives.”— Birmingham *magazine
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