I saw some rave reviews of No One Needs To Know and I was very excited to dive and and see what all the hype was about. Ultimately, I liked this book but did not love it. The gossip was juicy and it kept me guessing but I just wanted more from this book. I will still look to read more from this author!

No One Needs to Know by Lindsay Cameron

If you’re looking for drama look no further than this Upper East Side tale. Beware of what you post anonymously on the Internet because it might not stay that way.

There are a lot of stories (and a lot of lies) to keep up with because of the number of characters but I thought this was a fun ride.

Thanks to @netgalley and @bantambooksuk for this advanced reader!

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Tagline: Juicy gossip about rich people? It’s my catnip, and this book delivered!

Full review to come on FreshFiction.com.

I think the synopsis of Big Little Lies meets Gossip Girl sums it all up via the blurb.

This focuses on three families whose children all attend an Upper East Side school vying to get into the prestigious Andover school to boost their resumes for college. While this starts out at being the goal, it veers a bit and we focus on the adults and the boarding school/admissions plot falls a bit to the wayside.

UrbanMyths is the anti Social Media to a degree. You can post but its all anonymous, want to kill your husband, sure post it, want to have an affair, why not. Its more of a venting outlet that know one will know who you are. Until they do. All three mom's have secrets to share and they are all intertwined and posted on this website. As mentioned above the original plot focused on the plight to get the kids into the boarding school, but then we take a turn and see to what extent people will go to be rich and privileged.

This was for sure a fast read and I couldn't put it down. Was it earth shattering - No! But like the proverbial train wreck I could not put it down and had to see where it all ended up. It lacked that oomph I wanted but to hold my attention and just see where it landed was good enough for me

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for advanced copy in exchange for an honest review

The anonymous app, Urban Myth is a place for the residents of an exclusive upper East Side neighborhood, to vent, share secrets, and share advice.

The story is told with excerpts of the scandalous postings and alternating points of view between Heather, the helicopter parent, Poppy, the Queen Bee, and Norah, the business exec. Unfortunately for them, the site may not be as anonymous as they hoped. The site is hacked and identities are threatened.

Then a husband goes missing.

Pop the popcorn and let the games and drama begin!

This was an addictive fun read. Rich people behaving badly is not a new premise, but this one had the added themes of oversharing on social media, parents who will stop at nothing to get their kids into prestigious universities, and a murder investigation.

*I received a digital copy for review from NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

"No One Needs to Know" is a thrilling psychological thriller filled with jealousy, revenge, and scandal among the wealthy. The story explores the high-stakes world of the privileged and their obsession with social status. As secrets are exposed and confidential information leaks out, no one is safe. With a jaw-dropping plot and intriguing characters, this book offers a captivating look into the lives of the uber wealthy. A great read that delves into the dark side of wealth and power.

Quick read. Good story line some parts were just fluff and I didn’t feel it needed to be added. Overall enjoyed.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for a readers copy of this title. My reviews never contain spoilers and are freely given.
Lies, deception, and assumption between a group of parents whose children attend a posh private school creates chaos in this suspense tale. I enjoyed the characters and the story, even though some of those characters are less than likeable. Overall it’s a quick and satisfying read.

3.25 stars.

Many unlikable, rich, stereotypical, upper-crusty New York women spend their days gabbing and gossiping on UrbanMyth, a local anonymous social media forum, in Lindsay Cameron's "No One Needs to Know." It's like an adult of "Gossip Girl" and includes people having affairs, kids getting involved, using money in exchange for favors, drugs, violence, extortion, social media, new money versus old money, fakeness, and of course, the dreaded vaping!!! This book starts out very strong and compelling in a reality TV/real housewives kind of way, but it gets a little repetitive and tiresome in the middle-end. It's not all that thrilling for being a thriller, and it's not all that mysterious for being a mystery. It's suuuuper slow-burning, which made my mind wander to other things. Also, there are a lot of moving parts to this story, which made it hard to keep people and places and things straight. By the time everything gets revealed and unfolded, I had pretty much tuned out by then. It's all a little too conveniently wrapped up in the end. There are so many characters and so many moving parts that for it to end the way it did doesn't make a lot of sense.

Thank you to NetGalley, Lindsay Cameron, Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, and Bantam for the ARC of this novel. All opinions are my own, and I was not compensated for my review.

A delicious, scandalous read!
Many thanks to Random House and to Netgalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

This book had a great plot that was a little hard to follow at first but stick with it and you’ll be glad! Once you figure out who is who and are how they are all connected you will not be able to stop reading. I never saw the ending coming, which was great! I would recommend this book.

A spicy, slow burn thriller/neighborhood drama that takes place on the UES of NYC. Cleverly written, all the characters are hiding secrets and lies, most of which are divulged on an "anonymous" social media website, UrbanMyth. This particular group of private school parents are all ambitious to the point of utter selfishness, whose ultimate goal is to ensure their children are accepted into THE boarding high school, then one of them goes missing. Secrets come out as UrbanMyth is hacked and exposed for all to see. A juicy read just in time for a summer afternoon at the beach!

Thank you, thank you to Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, Bantam and Netgalley for an advanced reader copy!

I thought this would have a fun ~rich people drama~ vibe to it but I just found it really boring. If you enjoy a thriller that leans more drama (think Liane Moriarty), I think you would like this more than I did.

“No one is more dangerous than a man with nothing to lose.”

“Families who have 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 really can do 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨.”

How far would you go to ensure that your child has the best of everything and gets accepted into the best schools? Well, according to the actions of these upper east side parents…pretty damn far!

Wheeeeee what a wild and tangled web they weaved. This book was chock full of deceit and devious behavior and it was so FUN! Told from multiple POV, each character is out for their own gain no matter who they’re married to or what their bank account is.

The audio was great! Read by dual narrators this story was so easy to follow, even with all of the different character perspectives. The narrators did a great job of distinguishing characters making it very easy to get lost in their crazy world!

Thank you for the free audiobook @prhaudio #PRHAudioPartner. Thank you also to Netgalley, Random House Publishing, and the author for the eARC.

Muahahahahaha! Ok, this was fun. An awful lot of characters to keep track of, but where they're all interwoven is where the scandal begins!

So here's the thing, allllll of these folks never heard that you shouldn't post anything online that you wouldn't want made public. So you're sleeping with your son's coach? Doesn't belong on the internet. So you're donating money to get your kid into a school they aren't qualified for? Doesn't belong on the internet. So you love to shoplift even though you're a gazillionaire? You get the picture ;) All these morally bankrupt folks just love to spill even their most shameful secrets online.

When one of their kids gets brought up in their chat, all hell breaks loose and the drama continues until the group is hacked, all the secrets are spilled, and someone winds up dead. There wasn't anyone to cheer for in this mess, still a wild ride!

Thank you to Bantam Books and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Thrillers with a bunch of entitled, wealthy women with secrets and motives? Sign me up. Told in alternating interviews and timelines – before the incident and after – with the three main suspects. Which one of the women killed one of their husbands? And why? Revolving around love affairs, jealousy, revenge and blackmail at an elite private school on the Upper East Side… because parents will do just about anything to provide the best life for their children. And themselves. It was a little slow to start, but once the events start to build, you’re left on the edge of your seat waiting to see who did what. If you liked anything by May Cobb, you’ll like this one too.

I loved this book! A classic “rich people behaving badly” story, and the consequences they face when it all comes tumbling down on them. It may have been partially inspired by recent college admission scandals of the rich and famous. But there is way more to the story….

The book centers on the lives of families in the wealthy Upper East Side of New York. They all use a website called Urban Myth, a completely anonymous and confidential platform that allows its users to ask otherwise embarrassing questions, to brag about exploits and indiscretions, and to seek help with unsavory problems and issues. The book centers around three women in particular; their families, their predicaments, and their ways of coping.

Then the website is hacked. Now everyone can see who asked which question, and who posted which embarrassing exploit.

I found this book propulsive and page turning. I would have liked a longer ending, with a more defined resolution. But all in all, it was a very fun ride!

Thanks to NetGalley for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest person.

Gossip girl but make it the parents instead! The book centers on how parents will do anything to get their children into the "right" boarding school. They cheat, lie, and "share" secrets to give their children the upper hand to get admitted to THE boarding school. An anonymous online forum helps them "share" these secrets but then someone hacks into the forum and releases the identities of who posted the salacious questions and information. When one ends up dead, and everyone has a secret to keep... who is the murderer?? This book was a fast and fun read that kept me guessing throughout! Everyone had a flaw and no one seemed to be who they pretended to be.

One would think that as an adult, you teach your children to never write something on social media that you wouldn't care if others saw it and knew it was you. But so many people think that if they write something behind a screen that it will remain anonymous and there is no "paper trail". How foolish! The parents in this exclusive wealthy community did just that, obsessed with trying to "one up" each other, with trying to get their kids into the right schools to give them every advantage and opportunity as all costs, these parents chose to write on a social forum that promoted juicy gossip both positive and negative thinking they were hidden, and their children knew and played them for it. Posts that mentioned blackmail, adultery, drugs and dealing, cheating on tests, dreams of killing a spouse, and more. Whether it was truth or fabrication was not an issue. And then the social forum gets hacked and what was anonymous before is no longer as all the comments can be sorted according to their email. Panic ensues. So many secrets were held and so many secrets were spilled that lives were destroyed until finally someone ends up dead. But....no one needs to know! A bit confusing a first, I found it hard to keep track of the characters and their stories until finally about a third in I saw how they were connected. Then, the story got interesting and kept me reading until all hours of the night to see what would happen. Would they find him alive or dead and what actually happened? Yes, by all means read this thriller, its a page turner. Many thanks to #netgalley #nooneneedstoknow #randomhouse #lindsaycameron for the opportunity to read and review this book.

This is fun and I am glad I read it, but I guess I couldn't relate right now to these women. They are so rich and determined. I loved the gossip and the drama.