I love this book. I finished it in two days. I was drawn to the title and author. I read Just One Look by the same author, and liked it, but this one is much better!

This book was clever and quite scandelous. I was hooked from the beginning and finished it in one sitting!

This book is like a storyline straight out of a Bravo reality show: it’s full of the rich people problems and gossip all of us “normal folks” love to hate watch. People are scheming to get their kids into the best schools, spending money like it grows on trees, day drinking, and sleeping around. It’s simply delectable. I loved it! There are three narrators, each with a different POV and their own agenda. Each also frequents an anonymous social media site for the Upper East Side crowd called UrbanMyth, where one can share their secrets without worry….or so they think.

And it all revs up when a photo starts circling on social media after an exclusive private club dance showing one of the main characters’ daughter vaping marijuana and she’s labeled “the private school drug dealer.” That night, a chain of events is set off that can’t be reversed. I don’t want to spoil anything but it’s all drama-filled and just amazing messes of each woman’s own creation.

The “hack” and death don’t happen until pretty far into the book, but that didn’t bother me. I enjoyed getting immersed in the world of private schools and having the scene set, so that I was completely invested in the characters by the time things “got real.” It was also a nice break from the slasher/serial killer genre.

And I DID NOT see the ending coming. Phew! What a punch! I think I picked it all up; it was a lot of information, but I’m pretty sure I got it right. That’s what took it from a five to a four - just that I had to read it a couple of times and I’m still not entirely sure I got it all right. But I got the gist, and it was brilliant!

All I can say is pick this one up. It’s unique, brilliantly plotted and was a quick, easy read. I can’t wait to read more from this author! (I’ve already read some from her and this is yet another winner!)

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐½

Review:

No One Needs to Know by Lindsay Cameron is a suspenseful thriller that keeps readers guessing until the very end. Cameron's writing style is engaging, and the pacing of the novel is well-executed. The author skillfully builds tension and creates a sense of unease that had me eagerly turning the pages, eager to uncover the truth. The plot is intricately woven, and the story unfolds through alternating timelines, adding layers of mystery to the narrative. The main and supporting characters in the novel are also well-developed, each contributing to the overall suspense of the story. The relationships and dynamics between the characters are intriguing and add depth to the narrative. However, there were moments when I wished for further exploration of some of the secondary characters, as their motivations and actions felt slightly underdeveloped.

The plot twists in No One Needs to Know are where the novel truly shines. Lindsay Cameron manages to keep readers on their toes, continually throwing unexpected curveballs that challenge assumptions and deepen the mystery. I appreciated the intricate web of secrets and the gradual unveiling of the truth, which kept me engaged throughout.

However, while the suspense and mystery were strong, I felt that certain elements of the story were not fully explored or resolved. There were aspects of the plot and character arcs that could have been further developed to enhance the overall impact of the narrative. Additionally, the resolution felt a bit rushed and left me wanting a more satisfying conclusion.

Despite these shortcomings, No One Needs to Know remains a solid thriller with enough suspense and intrigue to keep readers hooked. Lindsay Cameron's ability to create a tense atmosphere and deliver surprising plot twists is commendable. If you enjoy psychological thrillers with complex characters and an undercurrent of suspense, this book is worth a read.

Disclaimer: I received an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

As much as I was looking forward to this book, it was highly disappointing. This really didn't feel like a thriller to me. When u first started the book, I was expecting murder, drama, and some mystery. I felt it failed to deliver.

Thank you Random House Publishing Group and Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.

I am always a sucker for books about wealthy people and the gossip and drama of their lives. The parents in this book reminded me a lot of the rich parents from where I grew up, willing to do anything to fake their child’s way through life. I also really enjoyed the concept of this anonymous website where all these people thought they could post their secrets and lies without getting caught. This story was really engaging from start to finish, and I can’t wait to read more from this author!

I loved this book, like I loved her first book. It’s in the vein of Big Little Lies, which is my favorite trope. It’s about rich mothers and the lengths they go to to give their children the best of everything… no matter what

No One Needs to Know is part thriller, part women’s fiction/drama about a group of wealthy women who live on the Upper East Side and reveal their secrets anonymously on an app. The gossip site turns into a warzone ending in murder.

Urban Myth, an app, allows the rich and elite to anonymously post. Users feel comfortable enough to post about their affairs, share fantasies about killing their spouses, and the thrill of shoplifting. When the app is used to target a 13-year-old private school student, all hell breaks loose.

The narrative alternates between the perspectives of the three women:

Heather: A helicopter parent who will do anything for her daughter’s success.

Poppy: The queen bee who is hiding a dirty secret.

Norah: An executive whose head is buried in the sand.

Most of the characters are unlikable, but a few good ones are mixed in. As awful as the characters were, I had fun watching their lives implode.

This book is so much fun. Don’t take it too seriously--it's a mindless, entertaining read with some strong commentary on people’s willingness to share copious amounts of private information about their lives on social media without blinking an eye. But when their user information becomes public, they must scramble to face the truth.


No One Needs to Know is a page-turner. I got caught up in the scandals and chaos the app created, and I was invested in the two mysteries at play. The last chapter was a bit of a drag, but appropriate. I just feel like this book deserves a juicier ending.

Overall, this was a deliciously fun read!

I saw this book was called “Big Little Lies meets Gossip Girl” and was instantly intrigued. Upon finishing it, I think that comparison holds up. The story centers around three women who live in Manhattan’s Upper East Side and all have kids attending the same private school. There’s Heather who sits on the social fringes of the group, but devotes most of her time to ensuring her daughter gets into even better schools in the future. Poppy, the too good to be true trophy wife, is definitely hiding something. And finally Norah, who works as an executive with Poppy’s husband, but has a difficult time finding work/family balance.

There is an anonymous discussion board that takes the Upper East Side by storm until it is hacked, and all of the secrets aren’t so anonymous anymore. Blackmail, infidelity, and murder are all packed within this book. It’s a twisty ride that will have you wondering up until the end who ends up dead and who killed them. Because some secrets might just be worth killing for…

All three of our protagonists were flawed (and I wasn’t even sure how much I liked them), but this was a pretty quick read that will be enjoyed by fans of Big Little Lies. If you like alternating perspectives, this is a great book for you. It will make for a great beach read this summer! Thank you to Random House – Ballantine and Netgalley for providing me with this ARC.

A group of rich Manhattan women and an anonymous gossip site are the setting of this latest book by Lindsey Cameron. Cameron writes intriguing books with convincing dialogue and good pacing, but the subject matter of the plot was not interesting enough to qualify as a thriller. The book centers on three women: Heather, who didn't grow up rich but will do anything to get her young daughter into the right schools, Poppy, a very wealthy woman in a sexless marriage and Norah, a woman who is an executive and doesn't fit in with the stay at home mothers.

UrbanMyth is a website that people can post anonymous gossip and confessions. It is stated that you can only see posts that are made within three blocks of your location. That seems a bit dangerous to me as you would likely have some idea who made some of the posts especially since these women all have children that go to the same private school. The problems start when a picture is posted on Instagram of Heather's daughter holding a vape pen. This leads to many posts calling the girl a drug dealer, a heroin addict and other things that Heather is convinced with keep her daughter out of an exclusive high school. I thought these women seemed way over the top over a vape pen but in general these women are unlikable and high strung.

It takes a long time to get to an actual thrilling moment and when UrbanMyth is hacked, the secrets people had are no longer private. This did remind me of the book "Big Little Lies' but it lacked real suspense and characters to root for and the ending didn't seem to quite fit. Thank you to NetGalley and Random House publishing for a copy of this ARC in exchange for a honest review.

UrbanMyth sounds like the next big thing. A completely anonymous discussion forum, this new form of social media sucked up the residents of the Upper East Side faster than anyone expected.

Heather, Norah, and Poppy are all involved with UrbanMyth. One with an affair, one with money troubles and another with murder. Who's the culprit? The author? The perfect stay at home mom or the ladder climbing career woman?

This was like an adult version of Gossip Girl and I couldn't put it down. To think people life like this... it's mind blowing!

3.75 stars

This book definitely reminded me of Big Little Lies, but a bit more sinister. I can't even imagine if there really was a message board like Urban Myth h where you could post questions or lies without anyone knowing who said it. Well, I guess Facebook is now allowing for people to post anonymously, so maybe this isn't too far off of a concept. Yikes. I would hate for this happen in real life.

It took a bit for my to get into this book, but then it took off and I really enjoyed it.

Thanks NetGalley and publisher for the digital copy in exchange for my honest review!

My first read of Lindsay Cameron’s. I really enjoyed it. The plot starts off a little slow but really picks up the second half of the story.

Based around an anonymous gossip site, urbanmyth, of the Upper Eastside’s elite.

Told in 3 POVs: Poppy, Heather and Nora. There’s infidelity, wealth and murder.

This makes up for a very interesting and scandalous plot. Kept the pages turning and me wanting to know how it would end and what twists were coming.

Thanks for the early copy!!

Ever wondered what it'd be like to be in the center of a scandal on the upper east side?

Wonder no more! In this gripping story, follow along with NY's elite. Find out what secrets they're keeping....and just how far they'll go to protect them.

No One Needs to Know by Lindsay Cameron is a captivating domestic thriller that takes readers on a journey that shows what happens when a supposed confidential app gets hacked!
Chaos, fear & mayhem ensue for Heather, Nora & Poppy three of Park Avenue social elites who have shared it all on the Urban Myth website. Anonymous posts about affairs, gossip & marital woes are are going to reveal WHO posted them & that will not be good. Fearful of exposure the three women are scrambling to keep their secrets hidden & will do almost anything to keep it that way… but murder???
While I enjoyed the authors wringing style & how the story was told alternatively from each woman’s perspective. The women though were not very likable. I found myself thinking it served them right. This however did not deter me from wanting to know who did what. The secrets & lies start unraveling for them all.
If domestic thrillers are your jam I highly recommend this one. This was my second read by this author & she does not disappoint. It was definitively an entertaining read. Just remember… things are only confidential until they’re not!!!
Thank you #NoOneNeedstoKnow #NetGalley & Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, Bantam for this ARC. My review is strictly voluntary. 3.5 stars rounded up.

(I received an ARC courtesy of NetGalley and Bantam. This is my unbiased review)

The perfect summer thriller can usually be categorized into a suspense laden novel involving couples and exposed secrets, or secrets being revealed amongst a group of women. In Lindsay Cameron's No One Needs to Know both of these categories are struck in a landmine of dirty laundry best kept secret.

When an anonymous forum that possesses the secrets of a wealthy neighborhood gets hacked the neighborhood is left rattled. Many will do whatever they can to keep their secrets, well ... secret, including covering up a murder.

There is Heather who will do whatever she can to assure her daughter is given the best education possible. Poppy is the appearance of perfection but beneath the surface there are far more cracks then she wishes to expose. Finally there is Norah, who is the poster child of powerful business woman and mother but the balance between both of her worlds is starting to fray.

When the Neighborhood Forum, UrbanMyth is taken over by a hactivist group that reveals all secrets posted by the neighborhood, the three women have their own bombs to diffuse. Secrets they would not wish to be exposed are laid out for all to see. Some of them revelations of the need for sweet revenge, some the revelation of lackluster marriage, and others the inquiry of a partner's faithfulness. Still it isn't just the women of the neighborhood that have UrbanMyth to be concerned about.

As some of the women struggle to assure their children are amongst the top ranking their families and children start to come in the crossfire. Marriages are tested, Mothers proclaim war against each other for the sake of their children done wrong, and hidden truths carry far more power then the three women could ever imagine.

Actions lead the three women to become a unified front when the secrets of UrbanMyth cause ripples of shock and worry to tremor through their neighborhood. The unfaithfulness of Norah's husband collides into not only Poppy's life but Heather's as well and eventually brings even Poppy's maid into the destruction. You see Norah's husband goes missing when she tells him she wants a divorce but then the police begin to wonder if it isn't just a classic case of clear your head disappearance for a few days... but instead that her husband may actually be dead.

The disappearance of Norah's husband is the tie that binds them all together. No One Needs to Know is not just your typical suspense of high class society brought down a peg but the means that women will go to in order to form a unified front. Secrets and lies are made in order to cover up the biggest secret and strongest lie they all will tell for their sake of themselves and their kids.

While the book left me wondering what came of Poppy, Heather, and Norah in the end I was not left feeling like I was lacking. Sure there was that curious question left in the back of my mind but that did not keep me from enjoying the ending. If you want a suspense novel stuffed to the brim with the wealthy and the plotting ways of rich females and those desperate to reach the top, then this is the book for you. It gives Gossip Girl all grown up meets 'You' vibes through most of the pages and does not disappoint. Until next time, happy Reading

4 stars
With all of the social media projecting perfection, it was only a matter of time to find out there was a way to vent and share the true ugly of life.
It was told there was a group of upper elite that spilled all of their secrets anonymously in a group online. There you were hidden even from the readers...and there you could let everything out. There was a pleasure in letting go and releasing all the pent-up stress of being who you really were.

Well, like everything else on the web...nothing is safe from talented hackers...and SURPRISE, all those secrets were exposed with the real names attached. This caused a death amongst this group and the question is...who is responsible and who could be next.

Lindsay Cameron's sophomore novel is a juicy, gossip-filled romp through the streets of New York’s Upper East Side. The novel tells the story through the POVs of three women who have nothing in common except where their children attend school together. (Psst -- it's a ritzy private school designed to funnel its charges straight to exclusive boarding schools.)

First, a scandal occurs at a school dance, and hell hath no fury like a mother whose child's chances of getting into boarding school have been ruined. Then, the anonymous message board where the local residents post their dirtiest sins and offenses gets hacked, and all hell breaks loose. Amidst the ensuing mayhem, a death occurs and suddenly everyone's a suspect.

Reminiscent of Desperate Housewives, One of Us is Dead, Big Little Lies, and Gossip Girl, No One Needs to Know is a domestic thriller for anyone who's ever wanted an inside look at how that 1% lives. Funny and entertaining, it shows just how over the top people can sometimes go. I couldn't help but quickly turn the pages to see what ridiculous things the characters did next, because they were truly absurd at times. The writing was sharp and witty, with an amusing look at how money can make beautiful people ugly and how so much of our lives are preserved forever online. This is a perfect vacation or beach read.

Thank you to Random House Ballantine, Lindsay Cameron, and Netgalley for an advance digital copy. All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own and given voluntarily.

3 ½ Stars rounded up to 4 Stars
Recommend for fans of: Thrillers, Suspense, Mysteries, Fiction, Women's Fiction

This was a nice little thriller, definitely entertaining and drama filled. I love books that feel like watching a messy TV show, and this was that! I’m sad I waited so long to get to this one, because it was a very pleasant surprise.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an electronic copy for this book in exchange for an honest review!

The synopsis of this book starts with saying that an anonymous neighborhood app gets hacked and everyone's identity gets exposed and then someone gets killed. This book is listed as a mystery/thriller on Goodreads. I went into this book expecting what the synopsis promised, but that didn't happen until 67% into the book. Due to this, the first 2/3 of this book is basically just The Real Housewives of The Upper East Side, specifically focusing on three moms to eighth grade children: Poppy, Norah, and Heather.

A book having to do with the one percent of the UES could be an interesting concept and an interesting book, especially if it specifically commenting or satirizing them and has a clear concept/message, but that is not at all what the synopsis promises readers. The whole time during the first two thirds, I was just waiting for the story to actually get started. I did not care for the characters and when bad things would happen to them, I didn't care or feel bad because everything that happened just happened to be the consequences to their actions.

When we get to the missing/dead person I did not care either. Since we are in the heads of our three main moms, it couldn't have been any of them. so when it was revealed how the person was killed, 92% into the book, it felt very convenient, especially since the person got away with it and none of the moms faced any consequences for anything that they had done during the book.

The actual mystery of this book felt very rushed, making me not care for any of the characters or the actual mystery. This book was easy to get through and read, so it has that going for it.

I would not classify this as a mystery/thriller and the synopsis framing it as that took away my enjoyment of it due to the expectations that it set for me going into it.