I wanted to love this. I like a good mystery and I love Karissa Vacker. Unfortunately, she couldn’t save it for me. In fact, her narration probably made me dislike Emma, our heroine, more than I might have had I read it. There was a strident tone in Emma that just felt whiny and annoying. Told in the present and in flashbacks by 3 sisters, it was sufficiently confusing enough to obscure the truth. But that obscurity didn’t serve to leave the reader in suspense, it just felt like it dragged out a bit too long.

Thank you to NetGalley for my advanced copy

I consistently enjoy everything I read from this author! For whatever reason her approach to mytery/thrillers really works for me and I find her books fun and interesting while tackling some larger issue at the same time. No One Can Know is also in that vein. Three estranged sisters return to their hometown and the childhood home where their parents were murdered. One of them was a suspect, but now she's pregnant and looking to clear her name. But there are long-buried secrets threatening to come to the surface...

In a lot of ways, this is a book about surviving abuse and how that impacts your life as an adult. The sisters grew up in a home that was emotionally and physically abusive, and generally very oppressive. Yet they all responded in different ways and have become very different people. It's twisty but also grounded in characters and themes in a way that I connected with. I will continue to read whatever she writes! The audio narration is also excellent. I received a copy of this book for review via Netgalley, all opinions are my own.

Emma and her husband, Nathan, find out they’re pregnant the same day that her husband tells her he lost his job and money they put down on a house. The only choice they have is to move back to the home Emma left behind so long ago when her parents were killed and a cloud of suspicion surrounded Emma. When they move back, things begin to unfold and secrets begin to come to light- deadly ones.

No One Can Know is the story of three sisters facing the aftermath after their parents' deaths years ago when they were children. They have to face all of the old suspicions and, worse, each other and their broken relationships.

If you're looking for likable characters, you won't find them here. Secrets and hidden motivations abound, and there are plenty of twists. I think the pace is a little too slow to be called a thriller, but it is a great mysery. The alternating POVs and duel timelines slowly reveal the story.

The narration was good as well.

Thank you to #NetGalley and #MacmillanAudio for a free copy of #NoOneCanKnow by Kate Alice Marshall. All opinions are my own.

Three sisters all trying to protect themselves, each other and their secrets. With both of their parents having been murdered years ago and no one convicted of the crime, there's a lot of speculation and so many people with motives. When Emma, the sister that everyone believes is guilty, comes back to live in their parents old house, it's apparent that she's not welcome. When her other two sisters enter the picture, secrets start coming out - but will the truth ever be told?

This book was SO GOOD!! I loved every second of the audio version. The story drew me, kept me guessing and the twists just kept coming. The narration was great too. I highly recommend putting this one on your TBR - 4.5 stars!!

Love love love this! Figuring out who was responsible was great. Everyone here is an unreliable narrator and I really hate the husband.

No One Can Know is a new mystery, thriller about three sisters, two murders, and too many secrets to count! This was my first read from this author and I thought it was an okay read, but not a new favorite.

In here we follow three sisters: Juliette (JJ), Emma, and Daphne. We follow Emma first, she was 16 when her parents were murdered in their home and we catch up to her in current day, years later. Her and her sisters haven’t really spoken to one another in years and she keeps much about her past secret, even from her husband. Emma finds out she’s pregnant right around the same time her husband Nathan loses his job. He says they should move to her family home, the one she inherited after her parents death. So Emma has to finally let him know that they were actually murdered in that house and most people back in that town still believe she killed them…

The beginning of this one was more interesting than the story ended up being. We do see all 3 sisters and follow what went down in the past, as well as in current day when another death happens. I just felt like this was too long and I started to lose interest or care where the story was going. It was just an okay one for me in the end. I had just read another thriller that was a lot more interesting than this one ended up being.

I received an audio ALC from Macmillan Audio and the publisher via NetGalley, all thoughts in this review are my own. No One Can Know is out January 23, 2024.

When Emily Giuliana and Daphne find their parents murdered they make a pact to tell no one what they know. It is years later and Emily is married to Nathan and she just found out she’s pregnant on the same day as she learns he has lost his job. This is terrible news on top of the fact they just applied for a loan to buy a house because they have to move out of there in two months. Emily doesn’t know how to react to this news but soon after telling her Nathan says they should go and stay in her parents house… After all she is 1/3 owner of the property. She is astounded by this because what Nathan doesn’t know is that is where her parents were murdered she let him believe they died in an accident but after telling him he still insist they move there, after all what choice do they have? She is reluctant but ultimately agrees as she does to all Nathan‘s wants and wishes. After asking permission from her two sisters who she hasn’t spoke to in years and they agree her and Nathan move to her hometown. The other news Emily had to break to Nathan was that she was the prime suspect of said murders and everyone in town believes she is the culprit and they have a variety of reasons why she did it; her and her older boyfriend Gabriel could only be together if her parents were murdered, she wanted an early inheritance, she was a Satan worshiper and or she just wanted them dead. Not long after arriving she gets stairs and out write blatant comments and questions about why she’s back even the investigating detective tells her inappropriate comments about staying in the home where she murdered her parents. On top of all that Nathan insist they should sell the house but Emily who is pregnant decides she may want to stay and wants to clear her name to give her child a better future. Her parents were controlling abusive and expected nothing but the best from their three daughters Giuliana seems to be the only one that wanted to live up to her parents wishes little sister Daphne just wanted to be invisible where Emily was rebellious and had just had enough of her parents control and telling her what to do she even plan to apply to UCLA despite the fact they didn’t want their daughters going to any college more than an hour away from their home. Throughout the book we learned why more than just Emily had reasons for wanting her parents dead but when it is all said and done there will be more than one surprise in store for poor Emily. There is so much I can’t put in my review because this is one twisty piece of work put on your seatbelts and you may need your bicycle helmet because when this bus crashes you will be wonderstruck. In the first book I read by this author I thought her character personality changed throughout the book but I have to say in this one the author nailed it… What a propulsive explosive thriller and that is 100% my true opinion I am not saying this because I just finished the book because I finished it yesterday and didn’t know what to put in a review about such a twisty plot changing all coming together in the end book but OMG if this wasn’t the best and I absolutely love Gabriel… And you will too if you read or listen to the audio book I myself listen to the audiobook and thought the narrator is a top notch narrator and had a great ability to do awesome character distinction.. I want to thank McMillan audio and NetGalley for my free arc copy please forgive any mistakes as I am blind and dictate my review.

Thank you to NetGalley for the advanced audiobook copy. I love this narrator. She does and excellent job! I also really enjoyed the story.

Kate Alice Marshall has done it again with No One Can Know. A twisty, dark thriller that kept me guessing! A solid 4 stars! Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC opportunity!

Murdered parents, 3 sisters and many buried secrets. Absolutely loved this book that I graciously listened to as an audiobook. Had me hooked from the first chapter until the very end! Very fast page-turner. Anyone who enjoys psychological thrillers should read this! Kept me guessing who did it and left me truly surprised!

Emma comes back to Arden Hills after 14 years on the lamb. Secrets she kept hidden become unraveled and revealed as another murder takes place! Three sisters, three suspects, three murders.

Thank you to NetGalley for this advanced readers copy!

Hi, Kate Alice Marshall fan here! Why? She writes for the girlies.

It is with some embarrassment and regret that I tell you I'm not an EXTREME fan of mystery/thrillers but if Kate announced she was going to be penning NatGeo articles about the mating habits of blobfish, I would immediately subscribe, okay? Okay.

In this one, we first meet Emma. We find out a couple of things, first: her husband sucks, she's pregnant and facing homelessness (due to afformentioned sucktitude of husband), and fourteen years ago she found her both of her parents dead via gunshot wounds. Oh yeah, she's the prime suspect, too - having faced years of stalking and harassment at the hands of her hometown's local cop who is sure he detects lies in the story she told when she was a kid.

Forced by circumstance to move back to empty estate where her family lived and her parents' died, the sisters with whom she shares the secrets of that night so long ago - Juliette (now JJ) and Daphne - suddenly are back in the picture after years of being no-contact.

We start peeling away the layers of what really happened that night - was it Emma's accused boyfriend Gabriel? Was it Daphne? Was it Juliette? Was it Emma herself?

It was easy to feel empathy for the girls here, despite the fact it immediately felt like one of them was guilty of doing the deed, especially as we learn more about their parents. This felt like a literary story about girlhood, if I'm being honest, and some of the content was extremely tough to read. It did feel like there was a twist on every single page, though - a new reveal that leaves you guessing until the end what happened and why.

I do want to say that there was some really weird discussion of fatness/weight that made me feel a little icky, which was why it wasn't a perfect read for me.

It was an unexpected mystery, though! And I didn't see the ending coming, either!

CW: a loooooot of parent/child abuse, some physical and some verbal.

Thank you to NetGalley, Macmillan Audio, and Kate Marshall for an advance listening copy of No One Can Know in exchange for an honest review.

If you love secrets galore, estranged family members, and small town drama, look no further then this book! I found myself questioning so many of our characters on their motives and what they were hiding. The narrator did a great job bringing the plot to life and kept me engaged. This one definitely deserves a spot on your TBR and will be out on Jan 24th!

So this was my first audio book. So take this with a grain of salt. I wasn’t a fan of the narrator. Mainly her male voice. It kept throwing me off. But again, my first audio book so this may be the norm.

As for the story line. It was great. I trailed off in thought a few time while listening so I wasn’t gripped enough. Characters were relatable and plausible. Story was full of surprises that I did not see coming. All in all it was a pretty good listen with a great story line. Glad I was able to listen while going on about life’s duties. Thank you for the opportunity to listen and review courtesy of author and Net Galley. .

All in all this was a great thriller that had you racing to the end to figure out what secrets it held. I’m a real sucker for deep, dark family secrets, so this one was right up my alley. To be honest I was expecting something more dramatic to happen than what did, given the actions of two out of three main characters. And I wish there was a little more explanation for some of the story threads, but overall I enjoyed the book. Four stars.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This one had my head spinning the whole time! There are so many clues and twists!

I was really surprised by who was behind everything. I thought every character was guilty at some point in the book. There are a few different storylines/side stories but everything is explained by the end so you really know what’s happening.

The three sisters became distant after the murder of their parents. When Emma came back they slowly started forming a relationship again (everyone was very cautious) and I really liked that for them :)

Book Title: No One Can Know
Author: Mary Alice Marshall
Narrator: Karissa Vacker
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Genre: Mystery Thriller
Pub Date: January 23. 2024
My Rating: 2.7 rounded up
Pages: 336

Story is told manly from the POV of the Palmer sisters – Juliette (J.J), Daphne, and Emma; and is told in two timelines – then and now.
Fourteen years ago when the sisters were 18, 16 and 12 they found their parents murdered. The girls decide that in order to survive no one can know what really happened.
When they were investigated by the police they stuck to the same story that they were together for a sleepover in the tree house ALL night!
Sixteen year old Emma was at odds with her (abusive) parents and the town folk believe she is responsible for their murder.

Now Emma is married to Nathan and they are starting a family. They are struggling financially and surely enough Nathan loses his job. Emma has never lied to Nathan but she also hasn’t told him what really happened the night her parents’ died. He knows they left the house to the girls and no one lives there; He convinces Emma that they should stay in the house until they get back on their feet – free rent is hard to turn down.

Emma is very uncomfortable in the house. Plus the town folk still have the belief that Emma is responsible.
Although the story was on the slow side at times, I was curious as I had my suspicions -my arm chair detective skills do get it right sometimes! So I hung in there to see if I was correct.

The audiobook narrator Karissa Vacker is great. I always enjoy her performance of the characters!

I did find these foul-mouth characters unlikeable –
(I am in the minority with my dislike of profanity. Most readers don’t even notice profanity. It seems F-
bombs are the only way to describe everything! But it certainly takes away from my
enjoyment of the story.)

Want to thank NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for this early audiobook.
Publishing Release Date scheduled for January 23, 2024.

No One Can Know is Kate Alice Marshall's sophomore adult thriller following the excellent "What Lies in the Woods." The story revolves around three sisters who inherited a house after their parents' unsolved double murder over a decade ago. Emma is in financial distress after her husband Nathan loses his job, they are about to be homeless, and are newly pregnant when she is finally convinced to return to her childhood home to clean it out and sell it, sharing the profits with her estranged sisters. None of the sisters have returned to their childhood estate after her parents were murdered in it and all three have secrets they would prefer to leave buried, but when an unexpected discovery occurs, the mystery of their parents' murder is about to be unraveled whether they want it to or not.

Kate Alice Marshall writes great thrillers that feel like a mix of the styles of Peter Swanson and Sally Hepworth. As a reader, you know more than what the main character knows and the situations the characters are thrown in tend to be more on the domestic side rather than high-stakes or life-threatening thrillers. Marshall balances this tightrope walk very well and her characters are crafted with a history, personality quirks, and unique thoughts that make it easy to tell which point of view you are in, essential when you are reading a novel featuring multiple POVs like this one. I will say that there are probably a few too many characters in this novel, over 10 if you include the side characters, so it can be confusing keeping track of all the ties they have to each other and how they play out in terms of the plot. This was a challenge when listening to the audiobook as I typically do not take notes on each character so when one was mentioned at a big reveal, I would have to go back or hope that I could figure out who this person was before the twist became irrelevant.

The narrator did a great job and I would listen to them again. I didn't notice them changing their voices too much for the different characters but Marshall does a great job making each character unique in terms of how they talk that it wasn't an issue.

The story was intruiging and kept me invested in seeing how the novel would end.

I look forward to Marshall's next adult thriller and will be recommending this to readers interested in thrillers.

This family drama/mystery thriller kept me guessing with plenty of twists. Set in a small town, this story is full of secrets, rumors, and suspicious characters. The story is told through the perspectives of three estranged sisters over a nonlinear timeline (then and now). Each sister’s point of view is compelling and well developed.

I swapped between reading my physical copy and listening to the audiobook. The narrator was excellent! Easy to follow and engaging.

Listen if you like:
▫️family drama
▫️multiple POV
▫️nonlinear timeline
▫️small town mystery

Thank you NetGalley and MacMillan Audio for an audio copy in exchange for an honest review.

No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall and narrated by Karissa Vacker is a twisty thriller that had me hooked from the first chapter. In this book we meet Emma, Daphne, and Juliette, who are 3 estranged sisters. 14 years ago their parents were murdered in their home. The murder was never solved and but many in the community suspected Emma. Now, Emma and her husband are forced to move back into the home due to financial difficulties. She has not been honest with her husband about her past. Being back in her childhood home forces her to go back to that night and try and unravel the mystery of what really happened.

This book is told in the POV of all three sisters and has two timelines, then and now. The relationship between the sisters was intriguing and dysfunctional.I was worried how easy it would be to follow with one narrator but she did a fabulous job. I will be adding Karissa Vacker to my list of favorite narrators. This audiobook will be released on January 23, 2024. Do yourself a favor and give it a listen!

Listen to this book if you like:
* family drama
* secrets
* an ending you won’t see coming
* multiple POVs and dual timelines
* sister relationships

Thank you to NetGalley and MacMillan Audio for an advanced copy of this audiobook. I voluntarily listened to this book and gave an honest review.