Thank you NetGalley and Ms. Cameron for giving me the opportunity to review "No One Needs to Know." I found this book to be a fast read. Ms. Cameron quickly engages the reader and keeps them guessing on what will happen next. I would recommend to someone who wants an easy reading thriller.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine for the free e-book in exchange for an honest review.

Clear your calendar when you get ready to read this one because you will not be able to put it down! Ever wonder what the top part of society's 1/2% lives are like and the "issues" that they may have? Known as the UES (upper east side) of NYC, this is the story of the women that inhabit the opulent apartments, have the token child and then micromanage their child's societal futures!

Poppy - she is queen bee, married to Harris and wealthy enough to have a building at Harvard named after her family.

Gretchen - she is a queen bee wanna-bee who manages and trades in gossip.

Heather - an outsider from Jersey who is hell bent on getting her token into the life she felt cheated out of in society.

Norah - an insider since birth who does not fit the mold and has a husband thats disappeared!

All of these lives are intertwined at the posh private school their 8th graders attend and are competing for spots at boarding schools. Throw in the app, Urban Myth, where you can post anything anonymously...that is until its hacked! Throw in a murder, a couple of affairs and the juicy gossip and all you need is a bowl of popcorn!

Highly recommend!!!

Didn't finish because this book didn't live up to it's synopsis. Instead of killer neighborhood vibes, I received helicopter mom vibes worrying about daughters at a dance.

Everyone has something to hide even murder! Sounds good right?
This one was started off really great, lagged in the middle and ended with a plot twist I didn’t see coming. None of the characters are likable which is kind of the point and overall this is a page turner, but I wish it ended differently / juicer!

This was a very interesting read. For me it did start out slow but I think most thrillers do. Once you get 20 % in it picks up the pace and you won't want to put it down. The woman are definitely unlikeable characters but at the same time you enjoy watching their lives implode. This was a fun read to me and I would highly recommend this book. This was a first read for me by Lindsay Cameron so I can't wait to read more books by her.




Thank you NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, Bantam for allowing me to read this ARC in advance for my honest opinion.

The book was intriguing and kept me reading without distraction. I recommend this book to those who need a little thrill with a little chick lit. The characters are ones that you can recognize as people in today's world with today's problems. Looking for a good weekend book this might be your book.

Thank you to the publisher, author and Netgalley for the advanced reader's copy of this publication.

This book had an interesting premise… an anonymous online forum where the upper elite post their dirty, scandalous secrets… until someone hacks the website and their secrets are now public… and one of these millionaires are missing. This book is full of scandal, secrets, and mystery. I definitely did not see the end coming either. This is my first book by this author, and will not be my last.

Thank you to NetGalley for the copy of No One Needs to Know! I thought this was a fast paced thriller as I read it in about a day. It was fun to read about rich people having problems even though it’s not relatable to many as most can’t afford to pay 50k for kindergarten. With the description of this book I thought the hack was going to be the forefront of this book but it doesn’t happen til about 70%. I will say I didn’t care for the ‘twist’ of who the killer was and why. It kind of felt like a cop-out to make everything leading up to it just a red herring and try and make the twist ‘shocking’. Also I felt like there were no redeeming qualities to Bennett to get the reader to actually care. Overall I thought the book was fine but the ending just fell flat. Thank you again for the copy of No One Needs to Know!

"When an anonymous neighborhood forum gets hacked, the darkest secrets of New York's wealthiest residents come to light - including some worth killing for - in this gripping suspense novel from the author of Just One Look.

It was all confidential. Right up to the moment when it wasn't.

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?

Each of them has something to hide.

Each of them will do anything to keep secrets hidden.

And each of them just might kill to protect their own."

Seeing as I live for the gossip and fighting on my neighborhood Facebook group, this book was written for me!

This one directly jumps into the shenanigans of Upper east side mothers of private school kids and their games to get these kids into even fancier boarding schools by hook or crook. The things these mothers do and the extent they can go is just shocking. There is adultery, blackmail, gossip (ala gossip girls), death, and lots of lies including secrets. Though I kept reading, it definitely felt like a slow burn and the ending was just fine for me.

Thank you to netgalley for this e-ARC!

Whoa the DRAMA in this book!! Kind of a slow burn, but the drama filled pages kept me hooked. You knew something very bad was going to happen, but you just didn't know when.

I do imagine the rich and powerful are just like the characters in this book, who will do just about anything to get their kids into certain schools, or friend groups etc.

I could feel the stress and intensity these parents felt throughout and it made me very happy that I'm nothing like that!! But I love a good drama filled book!!

This was challenging to get through: the characters are unlikeable and it took me over half the book to get the names and relationships straight. This was largely because of how distracting it was that the book felt like Gossip Girl and Big Little Lies, amateur edition. The author is a lawyer and yet the ending felt so unbelievable.

7/10 - Gossip Girl meets Real Housewives. Someone in another review stated they thought this may have been inspired by the college admissions scandal, and I couldn’t agree more. This book definitely kept me drawn in from the beginning.

I do, however, have two complaints. My first is around the number of families there were to keep track of. It was hard at first to remember who was married to who, and which kid belonged to which set of parents. It definitely became easier to track as I kept reading though.

My second complaint is around the ending. It just fell flat for me, and there were some questions that never got answered.

Overall, I did really enjoy the book and would recommend to someone looking for a scandalous and drama filled read.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bantam Books for sharing this digital copy in exchange for my honest review.

Oooh this sent me back to my college days where people within a geographic radius would post anonymously on a website “confessional” about all sorts of things (sordid and not). Imagine all those “anonymous” confessions are de-anonymized in the middle of a missing person investigation wrapped up with affairs and debts and boarding school admissions, oh my! Some of the issues were kind of trite (how relatable is it really to be vying for spots in a super-elite boarding school where the tuition is more than most people make in a year?) but the pace was quick and I didn’t see the ending coming and it all wrapped up just fine. I’d give it a 3.5 and round it up to 4. I wish we got to know the characters better or they were more likable (Norah was my favorite, Maya probably would’ve been if she had more chapters). That would’ve made it a true 4 star for me.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bantam for the e-arc in exchange for my honest review.

No One Needs to Know is a slow-burn story that would be best suited as an easy beach read or a lighter mystery without significant tension that could make this more of a "thriller". The characters are pretty stereotypical, unlikeable, Upper East Side moms, and their struggles and strife are not groundbreaking. I found it slightly challenging to keep track of each of the characters and their backgrounds, given the similarities between all of them. The overall pacing of the story is slow and the reveal at the end is somewhat anti-climactic given the lack of tension in the first 75% of the book. Thanks to NetGalley and Bantam for providing a copy for an honest review!

Technically I shouldn't rate this because I'm DNFing it at 33% but I feel like if I were to continue it would fall somewhere in the middle for me. I was excited to read this because of the grown-up secrets being published like Gossip Girl. I'm not exactly sure when that part of the book happens but it was so slow I can't wait to find out. The idea - great. The writing - great. The world - great. The characters were a smidge annoying and it felt like entirely too much time was spent in each of their heads. I think given the nature of the book, potentially more characters would have been helpful to spread out some of the gossip? It felt like the three families were way too linked and overlapping. I've never read a Lindsay Cameron book but I'll happily pick another one up based on the writing. She has intelligent writing with a little bit of sass, I really loved that. Thank you Netgalley and Random House for the chance to try it early!

The residents of the Upper East Side use an anonymous online group to disclose all their secrets. Until it’s not so anonymous anymore…

I love books about rich women behaving badly. I liked reading Lindsay’s letter about online anonymity and the background of her book idea. I liked getting to know all the women and watching the downward spiral. The ending seemed to happen pretty fast but I would not have expected the outcome.

“Every mammal protected it’s young. It was hard wired into our biology. It was basic animal instinct. You can’t fight nature.”

No One Needs to Know comes out 5/9.

Welcome to the Upper East Side, where money and social status mean everything. But what happens when everyone’s anonymously posted dirty secrets are suddenly not so anonymous?

This story is told from the perspectives of 3 Upper East Side moms whose kids all go to the same school - Poppy, Heather, and Norah. What lengths will these women go to to avenge a child accused of dealing drugs, or cover up something more sinister?

Generous 3 stars from me for this book. Honestly, it was so slow to me. I can see the comparison to Gossip Girl, but with older and less likable characters. It was definitely an interesting insight into the lives of powerful and rich UES socialites and just how far money can go, but I personally wouldn’t even call this a thriller. I found it slow and kind of boring, and the story finally picked up at maybe the 60% mark. Not by much though. And the ending was SO anticlimactic!

I can see why people seem to enjoy this book, but I guess it just wasn’t for me🤷🏻‍♀️

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a free ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Gossip girl vibes for adults? Yes, please! I loved the characters, loved the story line, and we all love some drama and gossip!

Thank you Bantam Publishers for the opportunity at reviewing this Advanced Readers Copy! This is around a 3.75 star read to me. The problems and constant drama of a bunch of rich people tends to always drag me in and keep me wanting more. In No One Needs to Know, we get the different points of views of multiple mothers on the Upper East Side that would do just about anything to ensure that their kid can get ahead, while also retreated to the safety of an anonymous online forums where they can spill their secrets and transgressions. That is, until those secrets become known to everyone and someone ends up missing or dead.

This seems to touch on ideas of women tearing down other women, our own competitiveness at the cost of others, that the rich get ahead (put enough money into certain schools, clubs, socialite groups and who cares what grades your kid has- They can go Ivy League and Old Money lives on!)

The ending actually wrapped things up nicely. Maybe it was a little too neat of a solution at the end, but I appreciate how the author didn’t leave things unanswered. This was a solid, enjoyable thriller.