ARC BOOK REVIEW: Nobody Knows You're Here by Bryn Greenwood
Nobody Knows You're Here by Bryn Greenwood
Publishing September 16, 2025
A BIG thank you to the author for a free copy of this book. I am leaving this review voluntarily and all opinions are my own.
This is a whole new genre for this author. Her first mystery thriller and I wasn’t sure about it at first. It seemed to much like any other mystery read. Her characters usually have some quirkiness to them. Something that sets them slightly apart and I didn’t get that from Beatice. But I found it in Aiden, the groundskeeper where she is being held and Isabel her keeper. Both Isabel and Aiden work for “Them”. The organization that kidnapped Beatrice and is holding her as a “nanny” to other children they have kidnapped.
Beatrice struggles to figure out who to survive, how to keep the children alive and relatively less traumatized and eventually how to escape. The relationships she builds with the kids and the others holding her are engaging and its fascinating to see how we are sometimes trapped by our own minds. Brainwashed into believing certain things and held prisoner by them and how hard it is to break free.
I am a fan of Bryn Greenwood her books wander into that territory of Jodi Picoult where you are given a dilemma and there is no “good” or clear-cut way out. It’s more about trusting your gut and following your heart and sometimes the answer isn’t always the one that is mainstream that others might understand.
Fantastic writing and storytelling. This book has lots of triggers – it is brutal in its honesty of what happens to hostages, kidnap victims and those who aren’t useful anymore. But that also made it refreshing as it wasn’t sugar coated and neat.
Synopsis
Beatrice is about to lose everything when a kind stranger offers her a cup of coffee and a job. It seems like a promise of a better life . . . until she wakes up under lock and key in an isolated mansion in the woods.
On orders from a shadowy criminal organization, armed jailers make the rules for their captives, enforcing them with unflinching violence. Beatrice has always been a “nice girl,” but that won’t save her now. Nobody helped her when she lost her job, her car, and her home, and nobody’s coming to give back her freedom. The only person she can rely on is herself. And now, several child hostages are relying on her too.
When the situation gets more dire―deadly even―Beatrice has to become the hero she and her fellow prisoners need. To escape she’ll have to outsmart her captors and do terrible things that would horrify her former self. If she succeeds, there’s no telling who she’ll be when the ordeal comes to an end.
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