Lisa Scottoline’s novel Someone Knows examines the challenge of coming of age in a world that is increasingly superficial and one-dimensional. Four teenagers share a dreadful secret centered around a prank gone horribly awry. The novel follows the teens into adulthood as they each process the incident in different ways, and wonder where true responsibility and justice lay. Themes of the novel include guilt, grief, justice, and human connection in a world that has become increasingly consumed by materialism over interpersonal relationships.
Lisa Scottoline has joined the ranks of former lawyers who have turned to writing fictional thrillers about it instead. Her particular milieu is the upper crust and underbelly of the legal scene in he...
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