In No One Can Know, a woman is sent back to the scene of the traumatic murder of her parents over a decade earlier. Thanks to her trash husband, Emma has no choice but to move back to her hometown and into the house where everyone believes she murdered her parents. The premise is intriguing and I liked how the author sprinkled in the less talked-about results of trauma.

However, I felt uncomfortable with the portrayal of one character and the twist, which would be a spoiler to mention in this review. It is regarding what I felt was a neurodivergent-coded character. That was my interpretation, and others might wholly disagree (which I hope they do because I would rather be wrong about this). But because of this, I left the book feeling uneasy, and not in the way I believe the author intended.

Mini synopsis: a bad financial decision leads Emma & her husband to move into her old childhood home where her parents were killed. Unable to sell the home, they must live there & deal with the mess that comes. All the while, the real reason her parents were married comes out.

The best parts of this book are the atmosphere & the setup. I loved the creepy old house & the mysterious past. Gave lots of The Only One Left vibes (which I love!) all the secrets really added to the tension, plus all the sister drama and unlikable characters was great! I was eating it up! But I think where I fell off is the ending? I don’t think I understood exactly what happened. That’s probably a me thing, but I felt like too many characters came into play & their roles got foggy for me 🤷🏻‍♀️ I enjoyed this way more than her book from last year so I think she’s on the right track for me so hopefully I’ll love her next one!

An absolutely enthralling and engaging thriller!

Three sisters find both their mom and dad shot in their family home leading investigators to focus on one of the sisters, shattering their carefully created lives.

14 years later, the sisters are back at the family home when someone else is shot. And the murder weapon was the same that killed the girls parents so many years earlier.

Did one of the sisters kill their parents? And if so, why? Or is there someone out there determined to make the sisters look guilty?

Lies, betrayal, and long held secrets come to light as the story is told by all three sisters in the past and present.

As always, Karissa Vacker brilliantly brings the characters to life through her narration. It’s because of masterful voice actors like her that I am obsessed with audiobooks!

No One Can Know kept me intrigued, thrilled, and engaged as events slowly unfolded in this five star read! Kate Alice Marshall has now blown me away twice through her adult psychological thrillers! I can’t wait to see what she has in store for her readers next!

Thank you NetGalley, Kate Alice Marshall, and Macmillan Audio for the opportunity to listen to the audiobook in exchange for an honest review. This will be available January 23rd so make sure to go get your copy!

I was hooked from the beginning. Really good plot that kept me interested throughout the entire book!
Different pov & dual timeline
One of the three sisters returns to her old town where her parents were killed & she was accused of killing them! The old murder case is brought up again.

Very good, very twisty. Twist after twist after twist towards the end.

4.5 ⭐️

You never get over the death of your parents, especially when you’re the one who the entire town thinks did it. Yet, fourteen years after Emma has left her family home to free herself of the life she left behind, she finds she and her husband have nowhere else to turn when her husband gets laid off as they are putting down the mortgage on a house. Returning home, means the old wounds crack open and Emma’s need to figure out what really happened that night so she can prove her innocence before her baby is due. She doesn’t want her child hearing rumors of her mother’s possible past.

There are so many things going on in this book, sisters who don’t talk to each other, noisy neighbors, shady sheriffs and local PD, and secrets abounding. I have not read any of Ms. Marshall’s other books, but if they are as well throughout as this one, then I can see why she has such a following. I love a good murder mystery which can keep me on the edge of my seat until the final pages. It is complex and dives into a dysfunctional family which looks perfect on the outside but broken and unstable on the inside. It feels as though that’s why the author wrote Nate, the main character’s husband, the way she did. I think that’s where I ended up giving this book a 4* instead of 5*. With everything else going on, I am not sure it was incredibly necessary. It would have actually been really great to have Nate be a really supportive husband who was an antithesis to everything she had in her past. However, he ends up being just another person who is out for themself instead.

This was an intriguing listen for me. The narration was superb and kept me pulled into the story the whole time. I really feel like the narrator helped elevate the book. The book uses a mix of different POV chapters as well as chapters that take place both in the past and present. The plot wasn't super predictable although I don't read a ton of thrillers so it may be different for those who do. I felt very satisfied with how everything unfolded and how the author wrapped the book up. I would definitely recommend for those who enjoy audiobooks and/or thrillers.

DNF I did not finish this book, was not a fan of the audiobook. I did not enjoy the portion I listened to.

I previously enjoyed Marshall’s last book What Lies in the Woods so I was thrilled to get this ARC and thought this was a solid follow-up! There were multiple POVs and timelines so it was a bit of a challenge to keep everything straight but the payoff was worth it. I ended up listening to the audiobook and that helped to follow the intricate storyline. I binged it one day! Karissa Vacker is an excellent narrator and one of my favorites! Highly recommend if you enjoy thrillers with complex and compelling characters, family secrets and unpredictable twists and turns.

3 ⭐️

This was an okay book. Not my favorite, but not also not bad.

The first half was a little too slow for me. I felt like I was given so much information and ended up having so many questions that it was hard to keep track of. The second half got more interesting once I started to get some answers and things were making more sense. But the end was a little too twisty for me. It felt like the author wanted to put each and every possibility in there before revealing what really happened. It took away from the actual ending.

I also wish I could’ve connected with the characters more. I felt like there wasn’t enough depth to any of them so I didn’t find myself interested in their story.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC.

4-4.5 stars!

This book got me out of a reading slump and I would definitely recommend to anyone. I liked it even better than What Lies in the Woods. Kate Alice Marshall immediately draws you in with this one and reveals just enough information to keep you on the edge of your seat, throws in the twists when you need them, and ties everything together with a satisfying ending. It is a great domestic thriller.

Emma and Nathan end up in Emma's childhood home after he loses his job and they have nowhere to go. She is also pregnant and they need to put some roots down. She hasn't revealed much to Nathan about her past, so she has to reveal to him that her parents aren't just dead--they were actually murdered and she was (is) a suspect. He takes this in stride and they move in, but he soon realizes there is so much he doesn't know about her, including Emma's tense relationship with her estranged sisters Juliet and Daphne and exactly what went on all those years ago.

The story is narrated in the past and present by the three sisters. We open with them finding the dead bodies of their parents and solidifying their story. There are layers to the lives they had as children and after their parents died. In the present, Emma is trying to escape the past but when someone else turns up dead, she realizes that just isn't possible. The sisters are bonded through tragedy but separated by secrets. Each think they know what happened, but ultimately, we find out they were all wrong and maybe all kept a little something to themselves.

Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for an advance copy in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.

I really enjoyed Kate’s last book What Lies in the Woods so was elated to receive an advanced audio of No One Can Know.

Three sisters, two murders and a lot of questions. Julia, Emma and Daphne are three sisters with a lot of secrets about the night their parents were murdered. Despite not really liking or connecting any of the characters - not one of these characters, I found myself anxiously not wanting to stop listening so I could find out who the hell killed these god-awful parents.

Not my favorite book I’ve read in a while but was decent enough to finish

Lots of mixed feelings about this book - it felt like this audiobook took FOREVER to get through. I loved “What Lies In The Woods”, but this one - NOT SO MUCH!

PROS:
Interesting premise. A terrible murder of both parents leaves three sisters on their own - they haven’t seen each other in 14 years and the house has sat abandoned.

Emma is the oldest and the police suspected her of the murder but never found any evidence. Emma never wanted to return to this town or this house.

Emma finds herself pregnant, her husband without a job and she is compelled to tell him the truth - about the house, the murder and her sisters. He insists that they live there at least until he finds another job.

CONS:
SO SLOW MOVING - I listened to this at a higher speed and still wished that I could get through this faster.

None of the characters are well developed. Even at the end I didn’t feel as though I understood these sisters and their estranged relationship.

So many secrets revealed between the sisters that twisted the storyline and left me confused.

Going back and forth from past to present just confuses the plot more. We try to understand the characters as children and then as adults.

Unbelievable progression of the plot left me waiting for the end which was hard to believe

I was disappointed in this one. Perhaps if I had read the physical book I would have enjoyed it more. I found myself wishing I could go back and re-listen to parts to try to find my place in the story but it was just too hard.

I would definitely try another book by this author, this one was just not for me as an audiobook.

I received the audiobook from the publisher and MacMillan audio through NetGalley. It was my pleasure to listen to and review this title.

This murder mystery will have you guessing until the very end! Three young sisters are traumatized when their parents turn up dead. The only problem is, they are all suspects, and no one really knows the truth. They all have something to hide, and they all 3 had reasons to want their parents dead. While reading the story, you begin to feel bad for the sisters because of the child abuse and trauma they all went through. When one of the sisters moves back into the childhood home 14 years later, they are all forced to revisit the past.

I loved how this book had me guessing until the very end. I was actually rooting for the siblings because I felt so bad for them all! I went back and forth so many times on who I thought the killer was!

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This was a quick listen. I had high hopes for this one after loving What Lies In The Woods but, I can’t say that I loved it. The characters are unlikable and unreliable. Overall, it was a decent book.

After seeing the cover, I told myself, self, you'll be ok to try this one, it can't be like the others you haven't enjoyed. But self, you were wrong. I am decidedly in the don't like when history comes back to cause grief in your present. I know that there is a reader for every book, and as a library employee, I will heartily share this title with readers who enjoy this type of thriller. Thanks for the review ARC from NetGalley.

So many twists and turns in this novel. You were never sure who to believe. Karissa Vacker is a favorite narrator and does a fantastic job as always with these characters.

This was a very good read. The content would be appropriate for high school students I believe that a good book for high school students needs to have some sort of or something to keep them interested. This book had that it did not have any parts that seem to drag or go slowly. From the first page to the last page, it was a page Turner. I think that kids would be able to connect with the characters in this story being that in the flashbacks in the story, the characters are teenagers all in all, I would recommend this book for a high school curriculum.

I received an audiobook ARC of this title from the publisher through NetGalley.

Excellent narrator that also did Marshall's What Lies in the Woods last year, and once again the combination of author and narrator keeps the story moving, and the twists keep the reader guessing and reguessing...

Emma and her husband have some financial difficulties after he lied to her. They move into Emma’s childhood home, where there was a major tragedy - her parents were murdered there. When they arrive, things become weird. Emma is questioned by the police for her parents’ murders, 14 years prior. Emma or her estranged sisters, Daphne, and Juliet, have limited memories from that night, and each are trying to cover for each other. Secrets are uncovered as they all begin to dig into the past. The four of them agree to fix up the house to sell and then split the proceeds. Some of the characters felt flat and one sided, with little growth. This was a well-written, fast-paced psychological thriller. I did guess some of the major twists, but some smaller ones took me by surprise.

I went into this book completely blind. Thank you to NetGalley for the audio copy!!

I quickly found out the story centers around three sisters whose parents are dead. No one knows who the killer is but one of the sisters shoulders the blame.

The story goes back and forth in time and we get the POV's of each sister. I was pretty interested in the story in the beginning but it kind of unraveled about halfway through and I only finished so I could find out who did it.

I'm still actually wondering who did it LOL - I guess No One Can Know is an accurate statement.

I feel like this is another book that is trying to hard to give us the MOST AMAZING twist ever and only ends up being convoluted and unsatisfying.

To top it off there was one narrator and while her narration was OK, she voiced every single male character (and there were quite a few) the exact same.

Avid thriller readers might really like this, I thought it was just OK and I'll probably forget all about it in a few days.