A fast-paced thriller about secrets, blackmail, and betrayals in a wealthy community. Twisty, catty, and very bingeable. Great for fans of suburban suspense.

This book was absolutely incredible! I have never read anything by this author but it was so good. There is something so thrilling when reading about wealthy people and mystery with murder. The twists were absolutely perfect in this book and I will be definitely reading more by this author again.

First off, I would like to thank NetGally and Random House Publishing Group for giving me an ARC of No One Needs to Know, by Lindsay Cameron, in exchange for an honest review.
I really enjoyed this book. The cover initially caught my attention, especially when they mentioned it is a book that is "Big Little Lies meets Gossip Girl." It met and exceeded my expectations.
It was similar to Gossip Girl, without it feeling like the author just copied the show. I feel that there was enough character development throughout the story. It also had some suspense to it and some unexpected turns, which I loved.
Overall, there was a lot that I liked about this book. In fact, there is not much that I did not enjoy about it.
I will be recommending this book to other readers!

Loved this book! Highly recommend to anyone who's looking for a good scary book!
I sent this to my book club to read as well! Everyone really enjoyed it!

A fun and twisty mystery! There were a lot of layers to this that kept me guessing with a fun cast of naughty characters.

Thank you for the opportunity to read this book. I had a hard time finishing this book as it just fell flat for me. Overall the idea of the book seems good but there was some bullying issues talking about through out the book and I do not feel it was ever fully taken care of. I have to give it a 2 star review.

I absolutely loved this book! A mix of gossip girl meets desperate housewives, I loved the way that the author used this anonymous forum as a character almost. It was so twisty and I loved every second. The end was a little too “wrapped up with a bow” but over all, a fantastically written read.

"No One Needs to Know," by Lindsay Cameron was just an OK thriller. If you're a fan of the genre, you won't want to miss this one.

Fast paced but not for me. It reminds me of Desperate Housewives if I ever watched it. Like a book version of what you see from reality TV shows. Three wealthy women fighting over stupid rivalries. Thanks Netgalley and the publisher for the advance ecopy.

This book was initially difficult to follow as it flips between 3 different moms in the upper east side vying to get their 8th grade children into a prestigious high school. One thing leads to another and a husband goes missing and everyone is a suspect. I did enjoy the ending and for that reason it become a 3 star read for me.

If Gossip Girl was about the parents not the kids and fully centered on one post, it would be this book.

If you were really into GG, you may like this. I found the drama level overblown for teenagers but stomachable. But with the same level of drama occurring amongst adults, it was just cringe, and none of the rotating perspectives include one of the teenagers. The mystery itself wasn't that bad, it just got lost in the teenager-esque drama and endless lying.

On the flip side, never have I found the less privileged MC just as annoying as the privileged one, so there's that, I guess.

A huge thank you to the author and the publisher for providing an e-ARC via Netgalley. This does not affect my opinion regarding the book.

I as expecting more of a mystery/thriller vibe and instead it felt like this was a RHONY story. I still loved that vibe, but it was definitely different than what I thought. Wasn't necessarily a page turner for me, but I was interested and finished this pretty quickly.

Thank you to Lindsay Cameron, Random House Publishing Group, Ballantine/Bantam, and NetGalley for an eARC of No One Needs to Know in exchange for an honest review!

This was a fast-paced mystery and is a great read for fans of Ruth Ware, Jeneva Rose, Lisa Jewell, or Alice Feeney.

I have mixed feelings about this book. One the one hand it was a SUPER quick read that captured my attention and had me wondering what would happen next. On the other, I could not STAND any of the characters. The novel takes place in Manhattan and the main characters are moms whose kids are applying for elite boarding schools. They were all spineless jerks who only cared about themselves and the world's opinion of them. I found myself rolling my eyes more than a few times at the words and actions of the characters. The cast of characters was not very diverse and it they all made one poor choice after another. I wanted to scream "WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!?!" So many times!

With all that being said, I found myself flying through this book and I thought the ending was a bit of poetic justice for one of the more skeevy characters.

Overall I'd rate this book a 3.5/5 - rounded up.

The three women at the core of No One Needs to Know have a couple of things in common: the school their children attend, and UrbanMyth—a neighborhood chat group they read and post on. And this merely scratches the surface. There’s Heather, the outsider who would do anything to get her daughter into the elite’s good graces and into their even better schools. Money is a constant issue for Heather. Her husband Oliver wants to move to the suburbs, away from the insanely expensive Upper East Side. And there’s Norah, the high-powered executive failing to balance work with the emotional responsibilities of motherhood. Lastly, we have Poppy, whose perfect-on-the-outside façade conceals more than her share of secrets.

Heather is a mass of worries and nerves. She never gets over feeling like an outsider, and believes she must earn affection and respect by being the consummate volunteer at every school her daughter Violet attends. Heather maps out Violet’s life like a general planning a spring offensive: SSATs, summer courses, extra-curricular clubs—she leaves nothing to chance. Heather frequently exhorts her daughter with her favorite phrase, “Eye on the prize.”

A thread throughout No One Needs to Know is the danger and prevalence of electronics. When Heather drops her daughter off at a dance, she watches Violet put her phone in a locked pouch. Unfortunately, another student sneaks in her phone, takes secret pictures and things disintegrate quickly from there. Heather’s helicopter parenting crumbles when pictures of her daughter vaping weed at the exclusive teen social gathering show up on Instagram. The school has a no-second-chance policy on drugs and alcohol, so this is profoundly serious.

Norah has a fantastic job, one that she has worked extremely hard to attain. She did not grow up in an affluent home, nothing and no one eased her path. Consequently, she is enormously single-minded. Her boss is Harris Ridley, Poppy’s husband. Bennett Stillman, Norah’s husband, is a good stepfather to her daughter Caroline, picking up much of the home-front load given Norah’s ridiculous hours. She is content with her home life although her primary focus is working hard and supporting her family. Norah has little use for the endless machinations employed by ambitious Crofton parents to make sure their children get into the right boarding schools, the right colleges, and on and on.

On the face of it, Poppy has it all. Thin and gorgeous, she is married to an enormously wealthy man, lives in a fabulous apartment, and her son Henry is on tap to go to Andover, followed by Harvard. Who needs more? How about affection—feeling those scintillating frissons that are a hallmark of an extra-marital affair. Poppy goes to bed with Bennett Stillman but shockingly, when she slides out of bed, she sees a red light pulsing on her lover’s phone. He taped their lovemaking. Sophisticated Poppy, undisputed Queen Bee of the Crofton parents, fell for an unscrupulous poseur, a scoundrel who demands payment in return for silence. Poppy is stunned:

“Are you … is this … are you blackmailing me?”



He blew the hair from his forehead. “I guess you could call it that.”



She could feel her jaw loosen, her mouth fall open. She was not an emotional person. Not prone to tears or outbursts, but she couldn’t keep her lower lip from trembling as the truth spread over her, inch by excruciating inch. This was all a setup. Bennett had never actually wanted her. He’d wanted her money.

Persons unknown attack the encrypted website everyone uses. The community’s dirty laundry is on display, including texts between lovers. Cameron sprinkles fictitious UrbanMyth posts through the book. These posts and their threads punctuate the swirling problems that threaten to engulf Poppy, Heather, and Norah.

No One Needs to Know has the feel of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery … there are secrets enclosed with more secrets, all of which start bubbling to the surface when Bennett Stillman disappears. It was irresistible to imagine which actors might play the various characters. It’s a cinematic page-turner.

Here’s to another good neighborhood thriller…of the 1% ers. Thoroughly enjoyed this one.

“UrbanMyth: It was lauded as an alternative to the performative, show-your-best-self platforms—an anonymous discussion board grouped by zip code. The residents of Manhattan’s exclusive Upper East Side disclosed it all, things they would never share with their friends or their spouses: secret bank accounts, steamy affairs, tidbits of juicy gossip. The same people who, as parents, go to astonishing lengths to ensure that their children gain admission to the most prestigious boarding schools and universities. So when a “hacktivist” group breaks into the forum and exposes the real identity of each poster, the repercussions echo down Park Avenue with a force that none could have anticipated.

And someone ends up dead.

Is the murderer Heather, the outsider who would do anything to get her daughter into the elite’s good graces and into their even better schools? Norah, the high-powered executive failing to balance work with the emotional responsibilities of motherhood? Or Poppy, whose perfect-on-the-outside façade conceals more than her share of secrets?”

I will not be giving feedback on this title at this time. Unfortunately, I did not finish this book.

No One Needs to Know by Lindsay Cameron is a gripping exploration of secrets and privilege in an elite Manhattan neighborhood. When an anonymous forum is hacked, the darkest truths of the wealthy residents come to light, leading to unexpected and deadly consequences. The story intricately weaves the lives of three mothers—each with their own hidden agendas—as they navigate the fallout of their exposed secrets. With its sharp social commentary and suspenseful twists, this novel keeps readers on the edge of their seats, questioning how far individuals will go to protect their lives and reputations.

I guess I went into this expecting a thriller. It was more like the real housewives of wherever. It was ok, written well, just not really what I expected. Of course I had to read the whole thing to see where it landed. Ok read, slow for me, just because I thought it was a thriller.
Thanks to netgalley, the publisher and author for the chance to read this advanced copy.

Here is the story of a gaggle of wealthy NYC Women who have decided to reveal their deepest darkest secrets in an app called Urban Myth, anonymously. At first, it starts as a way of entertaining drama-loving women who have too much time and money on their hands. They are usually bored and love some good drama. However, soon the gossip becomes darker and more serious. The app is then used to incite revenge on a 13 year old, and suddenly everything goes awry.

Switching through three women narrators, the murderous story unfolds. I became intrigued by the scandals of these women, and by the end I was invested. Full of twists and turns, this book is a page turner that is perfect for a vacation or beach read. The ending fell a little flat for me but still did not take away too much from my overall enjoyment of the book. Who doesn't love drama? Especially when it isn't theirs.

Special thank you to Netgalley, the publisher, and the author for this advance reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

4.5 stars. Thanks to Netgalley and Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine for the E-ARC.This was such a fast paced thriller and I was here for it. There were 3 different POV or FMC telling the story each there version of the events that are going on. But each still not sharing the whole picture and having their own secrets. Everything was just so carefully woven together and I was here for all the Upper East Side drama that Gossip Girl used to provide lol