Everyone Knows But You

By Thomas E. Ricks

Publisher Description

An FBI agent finds himself in the insular world of a fishing village on the Maine coast where the rules are different—sometimes lethally so.

After his wife and two children are killed in a car crash, Ryan Tapia starts a new life in Maine. But his first case there is a puzzling oddball—the corpse of a fisherman washes up on federal land, while the man’s boat drifts into waters that are part of an Indian reservation. Ryan quickly learns the nuances of Maine life as he delves into two illicit coastal trades: hard drugs and rare fish. Many of the locals are happy to see that particular fisherman dead. What’s more, they are not shy about noting that Ryan must have screwed up pretty badly to be posted to such a remote location as Bangor, Maine.

Undaunted, Ryan works to understand the unforgiving way of life on Liberty Island, where people live by an older, harsher code. Adrift on a sailboat one day, he encounters a man from the Malpense tribe, living as a hermit on a remote island, who witnessed something that fateful day.

In his riveting crime debut, New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks turns his literary talents to land he knows deeply, from working in the Maine woods and trapping lobsters year-round. Everyone Knows But You is a rich and dynamic crime novel that brings a unique part of America to vivid, thrilling life.

30 Reviews

2.5

Molly Niswander

Created 11 days ago

Bernadette Belke

Created about 2 months ago

Kelly McLaughlin

Created 2 months ago

“I had to spend all my tags on content warnings. This was over descriptive of the layout of the area and was a lot of exposition. The chapters were very uneven. It would go from a chapter that was around 6 minutes long into a chapter that was 36 minutes long. During the climax I found the description of what the victim had done way too detailed, it was too flowery to describe such a disgusting crime. A lot of the descriptions were repetitive. The amount of times "we have our own way of doing thing on the island" was said had me rolling my eyes every time I heard it. Yeah yeah we get it quirky, untrusting locals! Then there's a completely unnecessary and, in my opinion, incomprehensible given the recent tragedy, romance shoe horned in right at the end. I really did not care for that. To wrap up, everyone really did know but him, including me 😂”

Descriptive Repetitive Abuse Child abuse Child loss Death Domestic violence Grief Murder Sexual assault

Morgan Fox

Created 3 months ago

MissAllison Millerkray

Created 3 months ago

About Thomas E. Ricks

Thomas E. Ricks is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including the #1 bestseller Fiasco, a history of the beginning of the Iraq War. As a reporter at the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, he was a member of two teams that won the Pulitzer Prize. He worked in the Maine woods in his youth and trapped lobsters when living on an island in Penobscot Bay. He now divides his time between Texas and Maine.