cover image Do I Know You?

Do I Know You?

Sarah Strohmeyer. Harper, $16.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-309129-0

Boston Homeland Security agent Jane Ellison, the protagonist of this entertaining suspense novel from Strohmeyer (The Secrets Lives of Fortunate Wives), is ready to risk everything to finally discover what happened to her older sister, Kit, last seen one night 11 years earlier looking wasted after partying with other teens on the beach near their family home on Cape Cod. Jane’s gift as a “super recognizer” (someone able to ID strangers from the tiniest facial details) has convinced her the person she glimpsed that night with Kit was Bella Valencia, beloved adopted daughter of the Kennedyesque Pease clan. Bella, who now runs the Peases’ nonprofit in her native Colombia, has just gotten engaged to sexy scion Will Pease, townie Kit’s secret romance the summer she vanished. An ostensibly vacationing Jane, aided by her boyfriend, attempts to sleuth in her former stomping grounds without attracting the attention of the prickly Peases. Though the plot becomes a mess of red herrings, triple crosses, gaslighting, and worse, spunky, self-deprecating Jane and the skewering of the superficially woke but fundamentally clueless Peases save the day. Strohmeyer knows how to keep the pages turning. Agent: Zoe Sandler, ICM Partners. (Nov.)