Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for an ARC of this book.

This book followed 3 sisters all dealing with their own demons stemmed from their upbringing and their parents’ death. They all have very distinct personalities and it was interesting to see all of their POVs, past and present. Emma was my favorite sister while reading, but I also understood JJ and Daphne. The mystery was well paced and the reveal was good. There was something I was able to guess, and I loved.

I feel like as compelled as I was to find out the main mystery resolution this was a little slow moving overall. I did like how I didn't completely guess the ending but overall not my favorite. I did like the narrator.

3⭐️. I really wanted to love this book, the beginning started off really good but overall fell a little flat. A whodunnit premise about who murdered the parents of 3 estranged sisters 14 years earlier as one of the sisters is forced to move back into the home her parents were killed in. The story is told from all 3 sister’s POV and dual timeline of past and now. The problem was it got really slow in the middle and a bit repetitive, I think it is a little too long or more could have happened. The ending was like the author threw everything and the kitchen sink at the twists, it was a lot. I didn’t walk away with this book with any sense of awe, just a shrug that it ended and happy to have gotten the answers that I stopped trying to guess throughout the book.

I have a feeling this will still take off in the book world and have many readers ready to scoop this up. It is an easy binge. I finished the audio in 2 sittings, 1.75x. It felt similar to What Lies in the Woods, good premise but also ended just above ok. The audio narrator was great and kept me very engaged throughout the entire book, I would recommend the audio if you do pick this up.

Thank you to NetGalley, Macmillan Audio, Flatiron Books, and Kate Alice Marshall for an advanced audio copy in exchange for my honest review.

Book releases January 23, 2024.

No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall is a twisty book about three sisters who grew up in the same house (with awful, awful parents), but even though they all left home, they never truly grew out of it. I absolutely loved getting to experience this story from each sister's POV, and Karissa did a brilliant job voicing all three of them. Marshall is a beautiful writer, and this book had me completely captivated. Highly recommend!!!

The plot didn’t work for me personally but gosh darn it can Karissa Vacker narrate a book! Vacker’s performance was incredible and her storytelling had me engrossed in a book that I otherwise would have found pretty mediocre. While I felt pretty underwhelmed by the book itself I can highly recommend the audiobook format!

Kate Alice Marshall sure has a way of writing about young women who are good liars. In the follow up to her adult debut, No One Can Know also features a trio of women in a past and present scenario and also centers around lies from the past being dragged back up. Emma and her husband Nate must return to her childhood home after some financial troubles, and with this move, Nate learns a lot of secrets Emma had been keeping from him. Including the fact that both of her parents were murdered in this house and much of the town thought she was their killer. After the murders, Emma was estranged from both of her sisters, older sister Juliette and younger sister, Daphne. Told from the perspective of all three sisters in both the past and the present, this fast paced thriller slowly sheds light on what happened to the Palmer parents all those years ago, and how their childhood has shaped the sisters into who they are today.

Pub day: January 23, 2024
4.5⭐️

I really enjoyed Marshall’s last novel, What Lies in the Woods so couldn’t pass up the early opportunity to read this through bookofthemonth . I read 14 chapters and then got approved for the audio 🙌🏻 with Karissa Vacker narrating. Obviously I switched immediately and she crushed it as always!

I thought the POV’s from the three sisters were done really well. Having flashback from each not only kept me guessing but helped me connect to each of them. Finding sympathy, similarities, or appreciation for characters always makes me like a book more and Marshall succeeded in that. She also threw so many twists and turns in my neck is still hurting. 😂 I was right in a few of my hunches but at no point did I confidently know who did it. It was an excellent ride!

Big thanks to Macmillan Audio for the alc via Netgalley in exchange for my honest opinion.

“No One Can Know” is a story about three sisters, two murders, and too many secrets to count. Emma hasn’t told her husband, Nathan, much about her past. He knows that her parents died and that she hasn’t spoken to her two sisters, Juliette and Daphne, in years. When Emma and Nathan lose their apartment, Nathan gets laid off, and Emma finds out that she’s pregnant, Emma confesses to Nathan that she jointly owns her parents’ house with her estranged sisters. They can’t sell it, but Emma and Nathan can live in it. Returning home to the small town of Arden Hills means that Emma must reveal her secrets to her husband. The house wasn’t just their family home—it is also the place where her parents were murdered. And some people think that Emma did it. Emma and her sisters have never spoken about what really happened on that fateful night. As Emma returns home for the first time in years, family and small-town secrets are revealed.

This was my first time reading one of Kate Alice Marshall’s novels, and I really enjoyed it! This book is told from the points of view of Emma, Juliette, and Daphne, alternating between “now” and “then.” While the story is mainly told from Emma’s perspective, I appreciated that we also got to learn more about her two sisters and get inside their heads. It made the story more enjoyable because I never knew who was lying and who was telling the truth. With short chapters and cliffhangers, this was a quick read and a page turner. Just when I thought I had figured it all out, there was another twist. I truly had no idea what was going to happen next, right up to the very last page. A fun mystery that I highly recommend!

I listened to the audiobook narrated by Karissa Vacker, who is one of my favorite narrators. As always, she did an excellent job voicing a variety of characters and bringing the story to life. I love how she really sets the tone, creating tension and suspense. I will listen to anything she narrates!

Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ALC in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC that comes out late January!

I loved this author's last book, and this is no different! I did do this on audio, and it had one of my favorite narrators, Karissa Vacker. That woman could read me a text book, I don't care.

This book lived up to its twisty hype and I enjoyed the ride of trying to figure out what the REAL truth was!!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.
Amazing audiobook. Great narrator and well written.
Perfect mystery and creepy old house atmosphere.
I enjoyed Marshall’s other book and this was just as good.

“You have to let go of the past to move into the future, right?”

Three sisters. Two murdered parents. A town rattled by the crime and desperate for someone to blame.

I really really enjoyed this one! If you have a sister, or multiple sisters, you will more than likely find yourself understanding and nodding along at the lengths these women did and will go to protect each other. That sister dynamic is something special as you are the only ones that know what it is like to be raised in your house.

This book is told from multiple POV and in the dual timelines of Now and Then. The twists have twists and kept me guessing to the very end.

The audiobook, as expected as it is narrated by the fantastic Karissa Vacker, is fabulous! This is a fast paced thriller with a lot of raw emotion, hurt, and fear and she captures it all expertly. I was so engrossed in this story and could not wait to see how it all played out.

Thank you to Netgalley and Macmillan Audio for the ALC.

No One Can Know gripped me from the start.

The story dives into the pasts of the flawed and possibly dangerous Palmer sisters, whose parents were murdered when they were teenagers.

The pacing was fantastic. Moments of psychological suspense and tension alternated with new revelations and plot twists at a breakneck speed.

I love thrillers on audio, and No One Can Know was a great pick for this format. The talented narrator easily slipped into the different characters' voices.

Read this if you liked Dark Places or What Lies in the Woods.

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.

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.