Y'all, this was just a solid domestic thriller! Told primarily through the perspective of three women (each with something to hide), this is a thriller where you know something's going to go down, but you're just not sure what and when. Each of these women is navigating deceit, betrayal, and harm in her own life (and within her marriage and family, too), and there are also intersections of this within the lives of the other women. The additional layer is the anonymous app UrbanMyth where community members share their darkest secrets and questions. Throughout this tale, no one can trust anyone, and that's what made this one such a pageturner. As a reader, you're not sure who's done what, who know what, and what they'll do to keep the truth hidden, but you're so drawn in that you just HAVE to find out. Thanks to NetGalley for the early look at this May 2023 release!

This isn't an incredibly memorable read and the story line was pretty predictable BUT I could not put this book down. Read in under 24 hours. I would likely read another book by this author.

This book is about a group of well off women who live on the Upper East Side and have alot of secrets. They reveal these secrets on an app which ends up leading to murder, The site is used to confess all sorts of bad deeds. But when it leads to target a 13 year old student thats where the real problems happen. The narrative shifts between three women. Heather - a parent who will do anything for her daughters success. Poppy- A leader of the pack who is hiding a big secret and Norah- an exec who has her nose to the grind a bit too much with work. There is alot of info shared that is threatened to come out and it plays out in normal fashion with everyones life exploding. I enjoyed the book but wish there was a more satisfying ending.

Rattled, Revenge, Resolve.
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Time to pop some popcorn and watch a small prominent community unravel. Anonymous and internet are two words that should never be put together in any circumstance. But when they do, you have a story that is very entertaining from the beginning to the end! A special thank you for my first digital ARC from NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group/Ballantine in exchange for my honest review. This book is being published Tuesday, May 9th!

Big Little Lies meets Gossip Girl? Sold. The quick chapters centering around three Upper East Side moms whose common thread is their kids all attend the same private school, alternating points of view between Heather the social climber from New Jersey, Poppy the old money socialite, and Norah the bland "career woman." Their secrets and life as they know it threatened by the "anonymous" chat board UrbanMyth being hacked, and identities revealed for anyone to see. An entertaining, page-turning palette-cleanser, though requires a fair amount of suspension of disbelief, tolerance of very dislikable characters, and willingness not too look too deeply into unanswered questions. Won't stick with me as a particularly memorable read, but absolutely the right book at the right time.

3.25 stars, rounded down. Thank you to NetGalley the publisher and author for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

No One Needs to Know was such a fun read! It focuses on wealthy couples and all the drama going on in the Upper East Side. The community uses a social media site to share dirt on everyone and things get juicy! Definitely recommend this book!

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Publishing for providing this digital ARC in exchange for my honest review.

The story gives super Gossip Girl vibes with a darker twist. It was a quick attention grabber from the jump but slowly became too hard to believe and a bit too junior/teen read for me. Good suspense and story telling but I could not get past the junior drama, 3⭐️

A huge thank you to the publisher for providing me with an advanced reader’s copy of this title via NetGalley.

Another winner from Lindsay Cameron! Part thriller, part drama, this is a smart and well written book that gives you a sneak peek into the highly competitive and cut-throat world of the Upper East Side and what parents will do to ensure their children stay ahead.
Thank you to Netgalley for the advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

I was hesitant to start this one and when I finally did, unfortunately, I wasn't too impressed. This was an extremely slow burn that didn't really hold much mystery until the last quarter of the book. This was mostly just a drama with a bunch of rich, spoiled women complaining about every and anything possible. Maybe being on the poor side made me dislike this more than I should but reading about that kind of lifestyle usually intrigues me. The story that was there was just okay to me. I wasn't sucked into this, reading late into the night needing to know what happens next. However, there is potential and I do look forward to seeing this author's progress. Three Stars.

Thank you Netgalley and Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine for this ARC.

Life is tough on the Upper East Side!! All that matters is appearances, getting your children on a path to the right schools, and lots and lots of gossip. Add in a website (UrbanMyth) that promises anonymity, where people post their most dangerous inner thoughts and concerns, and you have a recipe for deliciously decadent drama. Follow the (mis)adventures of Poppy (grand poobah), Norah (vice poobah) and Heather (poobah mostly in name only) and things get very complicated and interesting. This is very much a story where all the characters are hard to like, yet there is no looking away as you watch the trains collide. When UrbanMyth gets hacked, secrets are exposed and lives implode. The old advice of "never do (or in this case post) anything you wouldn't want your grandmother to know) has never been truer.

“No One Needs to Know” is the latest thriller by Lindsay Cameron.

Poppy, Heather and Norah are East Side mothers with kids in a high-brow private school. But even the elite school kids don’t have a guaranteed pathway to the Ivy League and the secondary schools that can get them there. These women reveal their secrets on an app called UrbanMyth, which, naturally, is hacked. A resulting murder leads the women to becoming possible suspects.

If you enjoy a face-paced thriller, you will like this book. The problem was that I did not care for the main characters. I thought the idea of the app was novel, and Cameron’s writing was animated. Hence, I would give this story three out of five stars.

Thank you to the author, the publisher and NetGalley for my advanced copy.

This was an intriguing book! It kept me wanting more and more! A fantastic read with great characters and storyline. Definitely recommend this book!

I received a free copy of, No One Needs to Know, by Lindsay Cameron, from the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Imagine if you are posting in an anonymous chatroom, telling your secrets and gossiping about neighbors and friends. When all of a sudden the chatroom is hijacked and no one is anonymous anymore. Someone or someones has outed everyone, and then someone ends up dead. What a great thriller, I could definitely imagine this happening in real life.

A dead body. Three wealthy women with secrets and cracks in their marriage. And all fiercely protective of their children. Have I read this before? Is this Big Little Lies 2023?

The premise of No One Needs to Know is interesting. UrbanMyth is an anonymous online forum for wealthy Upper East Side residents to post their secrets, their shameful moments, maybe advice on how to kill someone? You know, stuff beyond the typical Nextdoor inquiries.

The book follows Poppy, Heather, and Norah and they are kind of the worst. At least Heather and Poppy are, Norah is ok. Heather is desperate for her child to gain acceptance into a prominent boarding school even though her family's finances are meager compared to the rest of the parents at her daughter's school. Poppy is a trophy wife in a loveless marriage who gets seduced by a fellow parent. Norah is a super successful business woman recently married to a man who may not be as wonderful as he seems.

I have no problem with unlikeable main characters, and I feel like this book could have gone even further and had a little fun with their faults. I wanted more of the gossiping parents. I wanted more from the competitive students. I wanted more for the big reveal at the end. This one felt a little flat for me.

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine for the ARC for my honest review.

Such a good way to infiltrate the world of New York’s Uber rich! This is the best and the sneakiest story one craves. A great domestic thriller!

A drama-filled, scandalous slow burn thriller that kept me entertained the whole way through!

This is a story about the filthy rich, the 1% of the Upper East Side parents whose main goal in life is to make sure their kids get into a top-tier private school while keeping a few deadly secrets of their own, which they regularly upload to an anonymous website until a hacktivist group bursts their safely guarded world and exposes their secrets in broad daylight. And someone is found murdered in an ongoing investigation in the aftermath.

We meet Heather, a high-strung type A tiger mom (you know the type) who uses questionable unorthodox methods to ensure her child’s success; Nora, a relatively normal working mom who is unconcerned with social status and etiquette and refuses to raise her kid like a spoiled brat; Poppy, a highly redeemed socialite married to a husband abundant in wealth and completely lacking in love. Throwing them in a pressure cooker environment with rampant competitiveness, gossipy neighbors and tempting extramarital affairs, you can imagine the level of tension that is present throughout the book.

I loved how realistic yet unpredictable most of the storyline is and quite enjoyed the cat fight between the characters, although it did feel dramatic and over-the-top at times but hey that was expected. The ending however left something to be desired and felt hurried and unrealistic, almost a bit offensive to the caliber of the police intelligence. But overall, I enjoyed the story and found this to be an entertaining read.

Although it's not a bad book, it definitely wasn't the book for me. At no point throughout the story did I feel as if I was reading a thriller. The writing and characters failed to spark and hold my attention consistently. Nothing of real significance seemed to really happen until there was a quarter of the story left and the pacing finally picked up. Even then (especially with the ending), the plot and dialogue felt random, stiff and mundane. Lack of character development and unfinished plot lines left the story feeling pointless.


Thanks to NetGalley and Bantam for providing a copy for an honest review.

This gossipy story about Upper East Siders’ secrets and lies was so much fun to read! I didn’t want to put it down as the secrets slowly came to light.

The three main characters (Poppy, Heather, and Norah) know each other from sending their children to the same uber expensive private school in the city. All three also post on the Urban Myth website, which promises anonymity to its users. Under the guise of secrecy, people spill their secrets about shoplifting, helping their children cheat, and adultery. When the site is hacked and the secrets begin to be linked to their posters, some of these secrets link the women to a current investigation.

I’m definitely not a filthy rich UES wife, but man were they fun to read about! The tone is gossipy and tense at times, the pacing is spot on, the mystery is intriguing as we only get small details at a time, and the whole book was just one entertaining ride.

Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group- Ballantine, Bantam for the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

Poppy, Heather, and Norah all live on the Upper East Side and have secrets from their friends, family, and each other, including some that may have led to a man's death. No One Needs to Know is an exciting thriller that explores what would happen if these secrets are uncovered when an anonymous neighborhood forum is hacked. I enjoyed the book but did struggle with differentiating between the three characters and their stories in the beginning.

Totally enjoyed this juicy story about the upper class parents from an exclusive private school. An anonymous online forum that most of the school parents use gets hacked. Now all the anonymity is gone, each bit of gossip and lies are tied to the original poster which sends everyone into a panic. When a well known and respected person from the community, who has used the site is murdered, everyone is a suspect. Fast paced, and difficult to put down.