I really enjoyed What Lies In The Woods so I was excited to read this, but unfortunately it was somewhat of a miss for me.

The first 3/4 of the book really dragged. Between the different POVs and dual timelines, it just seemed like the story wasn’t moving forward much.

I was originally excited to read a story about 3 sisters and wish their relationships and personalities had been developed more.

So much happens in last part! Twist after twist, and it was hard to keep up. I did enjoy the last chapter and wrap up of the book.

I enjoyed the audiobook more than reading it. I thought the narrator did a great job with the different characters and expressed the tension building well.

Thank you to NetGalley, Flatiron Books, and Macmillan Audio for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall is a twisty thriller with a stellar narration by Kariss Vacker (As expected!). I absolutely loved 'What Lies in the Woods' so I really wanted to read this one as well.
I thought it started out a bit slow for me and there was a long build up but it did get more interesting after the first part. There was A LOT happening towards the end and I think I got distracted and missed some of it. I honestly had no idea what the outcome would be and I did not guess the end - that is always a big plus for me! I feel like it's a very solid whodunnit with a dual timeline which is always enjoyable.
Thank you Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for providing me with an early copy of this audiobook.

Thank you to NetGalley, Flatiron and Kate Alice Marshal for an ARC of No One Can Know in exchange for an honest review.

Synopsis quoted & review below.

"Emma hasn't told her husband much about her past. He knows her parents are dead and she hasn't spoken to her sisters in years. Then they lose their apartment, her husband gets laid off, and Emma discovers she's pregnant—right as the bank account slips into the red.

That's when Emma confesses that she has one more asset: her parents' house, which she owns jointly with her estranged sisters. They can't sell it, but they can live in it. But returning home means that Emma is forced to reveal her secrets to her husband: that the house is not a run-down farmhouse but a stately mansion, and that her parents died there.

Were murdered.

And that some people say Emma did it.

Emma and her sisters have never spoken about what really happened that night. Now, her return to the house may lure her sisters back, but it will also crack open family and small-town secrets lots of people don’t want revealed. As Emma struggles to reconnect with her old family and hold together her new one, she begins to realize that the things they have left unspoken all these years have put them in danger again."

I absolutely LOVED What Lies in the Woods, so I knew immediately that I HAD to get my hands/eyes on No One Can Know. I am sooooooo happy that it lived up to my high hopes!

This is very much a VERY twisty psychological thriller, which is totally my jam! Fast-paced with well-written characters and a crazy plot with LOTS of twists - honestly, what more can you ask for.

I would say start this one when you have plenty of time to read because you will not be putting it down until you finish.

Multiple POVS and multiple timelines - but still very easy to follow.

This second read for me of Marshall has solidified her as an auto-read author for me.

I HIGHLY recommend.

Thank you to netgalley for a copy of this arc in exchange for an honest review. Kate Alice Marshall is becoming a new favorite author of mine. I really enjoyed this story. The ending was full of twists and I absolutely did not guess what was going to happen!

I read along to this audiobook and I loved it! The audiobook was really well done and enhanced the story.

4.5 stars
The premise of Marshall’s book drew me in immediately. I read the book and listened to the audio both provided by the publisher and NetGalley.
Emma and her sisters are estranged after the death of their parents years earlier. But Emma and her husband are forced to move back to the house where her parents were murdered, and where she was the main suspect.
Emma begins asking questions about what happened years ago and old suspicions arise again.
There were lots of twists that kept the plot moving quickly and the reader engaged. I highly recommend this book to fans of suspense and thrillers. With a TA for abuse.
I enjoyed the audio, the narrator did a great job with voices and keeping her tone charismatic.

It’s been fourteen years since sisters Emma, Juliette, and Daphne’s parents were brutally murdered in their home. None of them have spoken to each other since that night, and the house has remained empty. When Emma finds herself with no other options, she returns to the family home hoping to ignore the past. But as the sisters slowly reunite, long buried secrets, and what really happened that night is no longer willing to stay hidden.

Exploring the complex relationships between sisters, No One Can Know is a multiple POV, time hoping, whodunit. With only sisters myself, I always feel drawn to books that dive deep into sister relationships. Marshall does a fantastic job of weaving their complex pasts with who they’ve grown up to. While the POVs switch between the sisters throughout the story, I found that Emma’s POV seemed to dominate the storyline. Daphne and Juliette ended up being more supporting roles, in my opinion. Since Emma is the domino that sets the others off, I would think Marshall planned for her to be our main narrator. While we interact with Emma the most, I still felt that each sister was distinct and well crafted.

While I didn’t mind the pacing of the story, I do feel there were some areas that could have been shortened or felt redundant. Despite that this is a twisty thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end. I primarily listened to an audiobook ARC and I really enjoy Karissa Vacker’s narration. She has also narrated Marshall’s What Lies in the Woods, books by Stacy Willingham, Shark Heart, and books by Peter Swanson; and I highly recommend listening to her storytelling. .


No One Can Know comes out January 23, 2023. Thank you to Flatiron Books and MacMillan Audio for my advanced copies in exchange for my review. If you liked this review, please let me know either by commenting below or by visiting my Instagram @speakingof.books.

Thank you NetGalley for this ARC.

This book had me guessing the entire time! Every time I thought I knew who it was book twist! Such a good mystery/thriller. I highly recommend.

Emma has kept most of her past a secret, but when her husband loses his job, they lose their home and she discovers she’s pregnant, she has to admit she owns her deceased parent’s home. She owns the home jointly with her estranged sisters and she’s going to have to come clean about the mansion she grew up in as well as the fact that her parents were murdered there. And that Emma was a prime suspect. There are plenty of twists, if I have a complaint, it’s with the narrator; Vacker has a whispery lisp I do not like

I was hooked by the start of this book, but the pacing drfited and meandered after about 10%, and I was left wanting more. I will still recommend this book to Lucy Foley and Lisa Unger fans, but I did not find it as strong as Marshall's prior works.

I really enjoyed No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall, I think it may be my favorite by her yet. It was the perfect whodunnit murder mystery, in a small town setting, where practically anyone could be guilty. The suspense was literally killing me. I thought I had it figured out, but the twists were so good!! This was told from the points of view of three sisters who grew up in an abusive household with wealthy and well known parents. I loved the dual timelines telling the story of their upbringing and their parent’s murder, and how the double homicide was still unsolved 14 years later, when Emma moves back into the home where it all happened. I was hooked from the beginning, even though some parts were a little difficult because I felt for Emma, and the example of how the people in someone’s life can break them. The narrator, Karissa Vacker, is one of my favorites so I really enjoyed the audiobook. Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ALC. This review is voluntary and my own.

NO ONE CAN KNOW by Kate Alice Marshall is a fantastic suspense that looks like it was brought out early for any of you BOTM subscribers!

Three sisters are estranged years after their parents' brutal murders. Each has questions about that night. Each has secrets about that night. When Emma, the youngest sister, has to return to the house due to life with her husband Nathan making a downward turn, her presence stirs up more than her sister's suspicions.

I really don't want to say too much. This is a really good mix of dark family drama and suspense. I was so involved in the sisters recollections of that night, appreciating the headings of each chapter as the now or then. I paired the digital book with the audiobook, which is becoming my favorite!

The audio is narrated by Karissa Vacker who is one of my favorite narrators! I think her voice is like silk and she did the sisters well with the rising tensions, suspicions, and fear.

Overall, I really enjoyed seeing the development of the sister's relationships. The small town suspicions of Emma fed the underlying weight of the story, as did her relationship with her husband. The flashbacks of the girls' childhood added to the growing angst. The ending was also one that I really enjoyed!

Thank you to @netgalley @macmillan.audio & @flatiron_books for this suspenseful thriller and letting me share my thoughts! This title will be published for all us non BOTM people on January 22nd or possibly sooner?!

No One Can Know was my first Kate Alice Marshall book, and it was solid. Not the best, not the worst, just a satisfying one-off and good way to spend a day listening to narrator Karissa Vacker. The story was slow to get started, and for those who DNF quickly, you'll miss out if you quit. It gets better and the twist are satisfying.

Emma and husband Nathan (who was a real bleep), are forced by finances to move into the inherited home from Emma's parents. A shared inheritance with siblings, they can live there but it won't solve the financial issues. It gets complicated as Emma finally reveals past history to her husband, and the reader, and she reestablishes relationships with long-absent siblings. An onion with many layers to peel, give this one a chance.

Thank you for the advance copy. This was a great book and I would highly recommend it. The mystery vibe pulls you in and makes you have a vested interest in finding out the truth. A sign of a great book for me is it keeps you guessing and is not predictable, This book definitely makes you play detective. I loved the storyline showing the bonds between the sisters. I really enjoyed the story and was shocked by the ending. I’m very interested in reading more books from this author.

What a twisty story that had me flying through to the end to see how it turned out!

Emma and her husband Nathan are losing their apartment, their bank account is in the red, and they find out they have a baby on the way. She confesses that her family has a large home that she shares with her estranged sisters, and they can go back to her hometown to live. The house is also where her parents were murdered, and she was the prime suspect… Will moving back home expose secrets of the past?

This story was full of so many twists, secrets, and angst throughout, that it had me guessing until the very last page! I love her way of telling a story, and loved the jumps from past and present to piece together the entire picture. Would highly recommend!

Thank you NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for my ALC, in exchange for my honest feedback.

I absolutely loved "What Lies in the Woods" and was super excited to be lucky enough to recieve an arc of this book as well. This book does not disappoint is another super fast-paced thriller told in multiple timelines and POVs. This sometimes gets confusing when an author tries to introduce so many characters and we are jumping between timelines, but this was not the case for this book. It was easy to follow and added to the suspense of the mystery.

There truly were so many secrets and I was left guessing till the very end. I was wrong, I thought I had it all figured out, but similar to her last novel, she had another twist coming and the final reveal was satisfying.

I will absolutely continue to read KAM's work and I look forward to this being released to the general public so I can recommend it to all my friends!

When Emma's husband loses his job, she's forced to do two things she never wanted to do: go back to live in her childhood home and tell her husband that her parents were murdered there. She and her sisters, Juliette and Daphne, had protected one another but had never been sure who had committed the crime.

Now that she's home, Emma is determined to discover what happened all those years ago.

I loved the interaction between the sisters and the dual timelines. There were some interesting twists and some room for interpretation that I enjoyed.

Emma jointly owns her childhood home with her two sisters, who she has been estranged from for many years. While facing money problems, Emma and her husband, Nathan, decide to move into the house while they get their financials sorted. Nathan doesn't know the full story of Emma's upbringing or the true story of how her parents died, and returning to her childhood home forces Emma to reveal her secrets, but it's not just hers she's keeping.

This was the definition of a popcorn thriller - it was engaging, fast paced and there were secrets to unravel at every turn. You never knew who you could trust or what truth would be unveiled next. I really enjoyed this one and definitely was never bored. I liked all of the flashbacks and the multiple POVs - I thought all of that added to the mystery of everything and kept us on the hook as readers. It was never confusing which was a definite feat! I thought the audio was so well done - definitely recommend this one.

I loved this one! I read “What Lies In the Woods” last year and it quickly became one of my favorites so I was excited to see another by this author. The narrator is one of my favorites that helped make a wonderful book even better. I loved the different dynamics between the characters. It seemed like every time I knew something would happen, it did but with an added twist! Highly recommend, especially the audiobook!

Now you know I love stories where someone is forced by circumstance to return to their small hometown after years away, especially if it includes a creepy house and a murder mystery.
This was perfection! Our girl is pregnant and just lost all her savings. Her husband was laid off and now she's got no choice but to come home and live in her childhood home - where her parents were murdered.
The time in town starts out perfectly! She goes to the gas station and is immediately recognized and shunned. People are hostile to her.
Emma decides to work to clear her name.
This was wonderful because we get the different perspectives of the sisters and their perspectives on the day their parents were killed.
It gets more intense as other terrible things happen in the current day.
The narration is absolutely perfect for this book. I felt for Emma for sure!

I'm very thankful to Macmillan Audio, Flatiron Books, Kate Alice Marshall, and Netgalley for the advanced physical, digital, and audio access to this twisty flashback thriller before it's projected to hit shelves on January 23, 2024.

14 years ago, the Palmer sisters, Emma, Juliette, and Daphne, found themselves in a sticky situation as their parents were murdered execution-style in their family home. The blame was ultimately placed on Emma for she had the most motive at the time, but flash forward to present day and Emma and her new husband (with baby on the way) have returned to clean up and sell the home for profit. This return home has brought upon a series of gossiping and vandalism for the whole town still ardently believes Emma is to blame, but boy oh boy are they so very misguided.

JJ (Juliette) and Emma bind together to learn that their seemingly perfect family had more nefarious intentions all those years ago, involving themselves shady business and extramarital affairs that lead to their untimely demise, but still who is to blame other than one of the girls? The twist will get ya, and while I totally saw it coming, I feel many would still enjoy this book's narrative and plot.