“This is our house now. Until we leave, it’s ours, not theirs. What happened here doesn’t matter. It can’t matter. That’s the only way this works.”

4 out of 5 stars (4 / 5) This mystery-thriller has me on the edge of my seat!

Meet Emma, whose past is shrouded in tragedy as her parents were brutally murdered when she was just a child. The suspicion surrounding her and her sisters lingers, with no proof to dispel the whispers.

Now, due to financial woes, Emma and her husband move into the very house where the unspeakable crime took place. Blood still stains the floor, and being back brings a wave of uncertainty and renewed suspicion from the town and the police.

As Emma’s husband delves into the details of that fateful night, the sisters’ harrowing experiences are laid bare. “There were people who could be a curse on those around them. Their rot infected others and it spread and spread, it got into the blood, the marrow, the lungs.”

The town and the police thirst for justice, and being back in the house stirs up more problems for Emma. The sisters forge connections, secrets unravel, and the danger that has long simmered beneath the surface rears its head once again.

No One Can Know is a gripping journey into a world where secrets, danger, and a dark history collide. If you love mysteries that send shivers down your spine, this one is a must-read!

Thank you to Flat Iron Books and NetGalley for the copy!

The book releases January 23, 2024.

Wow! This book will draw you in and keep you guessing up to the last minute. I love how this story unfolds. You think that one thing is the truth only to be proven wrong time and time again. Readers are going to be swept up in the mystery, and the intrigue. There is a perfect blend of the past and the present, and each sister is beautifully represented and portrayed. This book is the perfect cold weather mystery reading. I cannot wait to recommend this soon. Thank you to Flatiron Books and Netgalley for allowing me to read an advance copy.

This book was so twisty and weird - but I think I loved it! This was one that I didn't know much going in and that is my favorite way to read thrillers.

There was just something about this book that didn’t hold my attention. It was interesting enough and the ending was unexpected but all in all I’ve just enjoyed other thriller/mystery books much more. I enjoyed the jump between past and present and the different points of view. I think at times the pacing just seemed off to me. A decent mystery any thriller loving girl will enjoy for sure.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC!

NO ONE CAN KNOW is one of the twistiest psychological thrillers I’ve read. Just like in Kate Alice Marshall’s previous book, What Lies In the Woods, the characters are complex, interesting, and just quirky enough to be unsettling.

When Emma moves back into the house where her parents were murdered 14 years before, she and her husband also have to face a community that believes she’s the one who did it. Although Emma knows she’s innocent, not everything is as it seems. Right from the beginning, you learn that Emma and her sisters, Juliette and Daphne, formed a lie to cover what really happened that night.

NO ONE CAN KNOW ratchets up the dread with every page and I was riveted the whole way through. My only complaint was the dynamic between Emma and her husband: it didn’t strike me as believable. That said, I enjoyed the way Marshall explored the depths people will go to protect the ones they love. And just when I thought I knew the ending, there was another twist to knock my socks off.

Thank you to NetGalley and Flatiron Books for an ARC of NO ONE CAN KNOW and the opportunity to give my honest feedback.

No One Can Know follows the lives of three girls. Emma is the middle child and first of the characters we get to know, soon followed by her older sister Juliette and her younger sister Daphne. Someone has murdered their parents, and they all vow to keep each other's secrets so no one can find out.

Emma is later forced to move back into her childhood home, the site of these murders, due to a set of negative circumstances. Despite never being charged with her parent's murder, the whole town is still set on her being guilty. Once back, she begins to ask questions and events unfold that lead her down a path to discovering what really happened the night her parents were killed.

I enjoyed the alternating narrators and timelines. I feel like you kept getting glimpses of the story, and as you did, you were left trying to fill in the blanks. That also lent to wanting to keep reading to figure out what was happening next through the view of the character.

The end was comprised of a flurry of twists that only the reader is fully aware of, proving that not a single person can know everything that happened that night. While not all of the twists were surprising, they were good and lent to a satisfying conclusion.

Thank you to NetGalley, Flatiron Books, and author Kate Alice Marshall for the opportunity to read this ARC.

Publication date: January 23, 2024

This was my first adult novel from the author, I have previously read a few of their YA releases and enjoyed. This was really a middle of the road thriller for me unfortunately. I feel the pacing was off, the middle seemed to drag and then so much was revealed in the last 10-15% of the book it was hard to find it all believable. Some of the plot twists were obvious from the start, and it was hard to be invested when I really didn't like any of the characters at all. A specific trope that was revealed early on is one of my least favorite, but that is obviously a personal preference. I was intrigued enough to finish the book, however it wasn't one I was racing through to find out the truth. Overall, not my favorite I have read from the author but I will still keep my eye on other future releases.

This book was wild! And don’t even get me started on that last chapter!!!!!! I’m a huge Kate Alice Marshall fan, and her newest adult thriller did not disappoint!

Each sister has a different POV, with their secrets being shared, and this book left me guessing what was true all the way until the end! The only reason I’m giving it 4 instead of 5⭐️s is it was a little slow in places.

Thank you NetGalley and publisher for the opportunity. I really wanted to enjoy this book, the synopsis sold me. However, upon reading the book I did not really connect with the story. It was a slow burn for me, while I wanted to continue to find out what happened with the sisters and the parents, Ultimately, it was a DNF.

Thanks to Flatiron for the advance copy of this book!

Kate Alice Marshall is officially on my immediate-buy list for thrillers. She just does such a KILLER job writing them (pun intended).

No One Can Know is a dual-timeline thriller surrounding three sisters and the unsolved murder of their parents. When one sister is forced to move back to the house where the murder occurred, the past can’t be left alone.

This is a thriller for you if you love:
- locked room mysteries
- twists and turns
- fascinating characters
- small town settings
- secrets on secrets

Thank you to NetGalley, the author, and Flatiron books for this ARC!
Overall, I enjoyed this story and can appreciate where the author wanted to take the reader. I typically enjoy multiple POVs (as long as there aren’t too many) and this remains true for me with this book.
I did feel the author a wonderful job differentiating the three sisters; I had no difficulty recalling them or their differences as the story developed.
However, for me this book was so drawn out. It never pulled me in because every clue and every crumb had so much in between the next, and I found myself forcing myself to keep going.
If I weren’t reading to review this ARC, I likely would have DNF’d around the 35% mark. GR says this book is 336 pages and honestly I am astonished as I would have guessed upwards of 500.
I think I would have enjoyed this book if it were a bit shorter, some unnecessary things (such as duplicative hints and clues just from multiple perspectives) edited out.
Although I loved What Lies in the Woods, sadly this book just was not keeping my attention.
2.5 ⭐️ rounded up to 3

4.5⭐️

This was a really fun and fast paced read. This book really excelled in sisterhood and family dynamics. Good and bad, I really loved the times your sisters were together in the future timeline and reading them figure out what happened together:

I'm really loving Kate Alice Marshall as a thriller author. She does a great job pulling the reader in and making you second guess what is going on. This could make it a little confusing though sometimes as a reader. Such as I was a bit confused over Nathan and his story line.

I will continue to read anything by this author and would recommend it to any thriller readers out there or new readers

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Flat Iron Books. My review is voluntarily my own.

Thank you to NetGalley and Flatiron Books for an ARC of this novel. What Lies in the Woods was one of my favorite books of 2023 so I was really excited to read this. Unfortunately, it didn’t quite live up to my standards. I felt like it was overly complicated and almost too twisty at the end. The relationship between the three sisters was weird and I still wasn’t convinced they had each others’ backs by the end. The men (other than one) in this book were all so awful and very easy to hate. This was still a quick read for me and I don’t regret having read it, it just wasn’t all I had hoped for. 3.5 ⭐️ rounded up.

Secrets, death, trauma, family. This book had it all. Years ago Emma’s parents were found dead. Emma was the main suspect. What was she hiding? Who was she protecting? These questions come back to the surface when Emma and her husband move into the old house. Small towns hold grudges and still want answers. Then more tragedy strikes and history repeats.

No One Can Know is a domestic thriller which centers around 3 sisters, who as young teens, find their parents murdered in their home. Alternating between the 3 sisters POV's and time jumping between now (the sisters are adults and estranged) and back then, both the story and the characters get very confusing. I often found myself going back to check which character this chapter was about and what time frame it was happening in. Many of the pieces of these characters didn't seem to fit as the author was trying to explain their storylines. The first 50-60% of the book was hard to get through. I found myself struggling to focus and at times, wishing it was over. The second half of the book picked up and finally, it was intriguing enough to hold my attention. I finished the last 1/3 of it in one sitting. I'm not sure if that was because it was finally getting good, or if I was ready for it to be over. I think probably a mix of both to be honest. I've enjoyed Kate Alice Marshall's writing in previous books, but for me this one was only average.

Overall, 3.5⭐️ rounded down. Thank you to NetGalley and Flatiron Books for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

I loved What Loes in the Woods so I was very excited to be able to read this book. I find the ending to be a little confusing and am still wondering who the actual murderer is. I enjoyed the setting and the the dual timelines. All in all I enjoyed the book. Thanks for the opportunity to read it.

Almost a decade and a half ago, their parents were murdered, but the case was never solved. The police assumed it was the middle child, who was trying to hold her sisters together and keep everyone safe.

This story was told in 3 points of view (Emma, Juliette, and Daphne) as well as taking place now and then, which helped paint a full picture of what happened that fateful night.

This book kept me on my toes the entire time, and the chapters were the perfect length where you could say “just one more.” When I thought I had It figured out, there were continuous twists. You truly don’t find out everything until the very end!

⭐️: 3.5/5

Emma and her sisters have never spoken about the night that their parents were murdered. When Emma‘s husband loses his job and they move back to the house where it happened, she’s forced to confront not only the townspeople and police who think she did it, but the secrets that she and her sisters have tried to keep buried for years.

We love a multiple POV, dual timeline thriller, so from the very beginning, I was so intrigued by the set up of this book. From the start, you’re really drawn in by all the secrets that you know all three sisters are keeping, as well as the mystery of who actually killed their parents. However, as the book goes on, it starts relying more and more on tropes that I find tiring in thrillers, as well as some stereotypically bad thriller dialogue. I loved What Lies In the Woods, so I was really looking forward to reading more by this author, but in a lot of the ways that What Lies In the Woods got it right, this one got it wrong. There are certainly some twists that I didn’t see coming and the ending provides a good amount of closure so I can’t really complain too much about this book, but I wouldn’t call it an absolute favorite either. I was hoping for more, but ultimately, this one was an entertaining thriller that I don’t regret reading either.

Thank you to @netgalley and @flatiron_books for this #gifted ARC copy!!

A perfectly plotted thriller, now my second 5 star read of Marshall’s! I loved the past and present perspectives of all 3 sisters, and how the motive and suspicion kept shifting until the very end. There were some great red herrings scattered throughout. This one definitely kept me guessing!

Emma is newly pregnant, her husband has lost his job, and they lose their apartment. With no other options, they move back to Emma's family home. The mansion is empty after her parents were murdered there 14 years ago. The mansion is owned by Emma and her two estranged sisters. Emma has been reluctant to return since she was the primary suspect in the murder of her parents.
The book is told from the viewpoints of the three sisters (Emma, Juliette, and Daphne) and alternates timelines between the past and present. Secrets about their childhood, their parents, and the fateful night are slowly revealed. At times, I had a hard time understanding the sisters and their motives, but there is no "right" way to behave after surviving such a tragedy. There are a LOT of twists and turns and I was kept guessing until the end. Overall a strong amd enjoyable mystery-thriller. Many thanks to NetGalley for the ARC of this book.