I was immediately sucked in by the tangled past and present of a family haunted by tragedy. With a double timeline and unreliable narrators, I found myself questioning everyone and everything. Marshall throws you off track with every turn. I gave up guessing and just myself enjoy the story.

Even without the mind-bending mystery, these characters would pull you in. They're messy, complex, and deeply human, struggling with grief, secrets, and the whole family drama package. I wanted to know everything about them, past and present, even if I never found out who murdered their parents.

The ending throws a lot at you at once. It's like narrative whiplash, but in a good way. It keeps you reeling, processing, and buzzing with the amount of things revealed at once.

"No One Can Know" is a masterclass in keeping you guessing until the very last page. Compelling characters and enough twists to make you dizzy – if you like your mysteries dark, layered, and riddled with lies, this is one you won't want to miss.

Thank you Netgalley and publisher for a free copy of this book in return for my honest opinion.

Emma’s parents are dead. She hasn’t told her husband about it but they were murdered and she’s the main suspect. She was just a teenager though. Her sisters were questioned as well but who would want to murder their own parents?

Emma doesn’t have a relationship with her sisters anymore but once she goes back to stay at her parents old house, things start happening around her and she’s forced to look into what really happened to them.

I totally loved the mystery of “who did it”. I recommend giving this book a read.

I loved what lies in the woods, so I was super excited about this book. I rated them both 4 stars but I loved what lies in the woods more. I’m excited for more books from this author.

After racing through her debut adult thriller WHAT LIES IN THE WOODS, I was eager to get my hands on Kate Alice Marshall's sophomore offering. Unfortunately, the pacing of the story was off, and the characters lacked depth, nuance, and their own voices.

This story follows three sisters whose parent's brutal murders have haunted for years. The police and their community was certain that the sisters had been involved with the deaths of their parents, but were never able to pin it on them. Now, they are all brought back to their hometown where they become the heart of yet another mysterious death.

No One Can Know was well-written and and developed. Told from each sister's perspective from childhood and currently, the story unfolds in multiple directions at once. I found some of the dialogue to be a bit over-the-top dramatic, but the book itself was very enjoyable. I rate this book 3.5 stars.

Thank you so much to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for a free copy of this e-book in exchange for my honest review.

I really loved this author’s last mystery thriller, but this one fell short.
Not only did I find it a tad predictable, but the sisters were all desperately unlikeable. Emma, I swear, drove me insane. You’re married and you don’t tell your husband anything? Her little personality quirks irritated me. I feel she was a bit cold with wanting to kiss Gabriel like ten seconds after finding her husband dead. I also found her being drawn to the dude she hadn’t seen in years just odd.
I liked the family drama but this one wasn’t a hit for me.

I enjoyed Marshall’s last thriller but felt that this one was pretty standard. Secrets from the past, sister relationships, marriage in trouble - but none of this felt very fresh. If you’ve read a lot in this genre I don’t think this will give you anything out of the ordinary.

However, I am a sucker for a dual timeline and think this was incorporated well in this story. Our main character was a bit bland, but there were some twists and turns at the end. I had a fine time reading this but don’t feel like I was ever completely hooked!

I love a thriller with multiple points of view and multiple timelines. This book mastered that perfectly and was full of twists until the very end.

Three sisters, Emma, Juliette and Daphne, were at the center of the investigation into the brutal murder of their parents fourteen years ago. The police and the town of Arden Hills suspected that Emma, the middle sister, was responsible for the death of the girls’ parents. The sisters have not been in touch since they were separated after the deaths and none have returned to their childhood home, but now Emma and her husband need somewhere to go after her husband loses his job and Emma learns she is pregnant. They return to the childhood home and immediately the past comes rushing back in. It is not long before Emma starts to question what really happened that night.

I really wanted to love this book, and there were a lot of things that I did love, but there were also a lot of things that I didn’t love. I loved how well done the multiple perspectives and timelines were put together. I loved the feeling that no one really had the full picture of what happened on the night of the murders.

I was not a huge fan of Emma’s current day character. As a teenager she was strong willed and defiant in the best possible way. As an adult she came across as weak and the complete opposite of who she was as a teenager. While I do understand that people change and trauma can have a big impact on who someone is, I felt that this took away a lot from the story and made her deeply unlikeable. As an adult, she came across as a doormat who allowed herself to be treated very poorly and I wanted more of the strong and vibrant person she was as a teenager.

Overall, I gave this book 3.5/5 stars (rounded to 4 for the 5 star rating system). It was an excellent thriller and a good mystery, but I could not get past my dislike of Emma as a character.

This book was good and had the elements of a good thriller, but it just didn’t quite click for me. I felt like since all the sisters were keeping so many secrets for a majority of the book that their characters were never fully fleshed out. So as a reader, I didn’t really feel like I knew these characters until close to the end of the book and felt a bit disconnected from them.

I liked the plot in and of itself, but I think since I didn’t really feel connected to the characters, that meant that I didn’t feel particularly invested in the plot either. I think the author did a good job weaving together of multiple POVs from two different timelines. There were a lot of details that needed to come together in order for this plot to make sense and the author was able to pull it all together. This also made the book feel like a quick read. However, as I mentioned earlier, since I didn’t feel particularly connected to the characters, the plot fell a bit flat for me. I did still like the book, but it wasn’t a home run.

4.5 ⭐️ rounded up to 5!

This was fantastic! This totally reminded me of Dark Places by Gillian Flynn, which is another fave of mine.

Three sisters are found at the scene of the crime where their parents were murdered. Everyone knew they weren’t telling the whole truth and were hiding something, but our main character Emma never knew what happened for sure. All she knew was that she had to protect her sisters fourteen years ago.

Now, Emma is returning to her childhood home where the murder occurred, and she certainly isn’t welcome in that town since they all believe she got away with the murders. Emma hasn’t even been in contact with her sisters since what happened, but she reluctantly returns to her home with her husband Nathan after he pushes her to do so.

This is told in the POVs of all three sisters and dual timelines (in present day and past chapters), which is my favorite way to read a thriller like this. I loved the format of this book and it was a very engaging read!

The twists were unpredictable and every time I thought I had it figured out I was wrong 😅 this was an intricate plot with a web of lies and secrets that kept me wanting more, I binged this in a little over a day because I HAD to know what happened. Kate Alice Marshall’s writing is compelling and suspenseful and I will continue to devour her thriller books!

🎧 Amazing audiobook alert! Karissa Vacker can do absolutely no wrong in my eyes and she is one of the best narrators in the game! I highly suggest this one on audio, and whenever you see her name just know it’ll be a good one! Her inflection, pacing, tone, and storytelling skills are top tier.

Thank you NetGalley and FlatIron books for this ARC and MacMillan audio for the ALC. This publishes on 1/23/24!

Huge huge fan of Kate Alice Marshall.
I am obsessed with KAMs paranormal books and now with these thrillers!

This was so twisty and had terrible characters. I loved it.
Emma and her husband Nathan find out they need a place to live and are now pregnant. So they return to Emma’s old house. The ones her parents were murdered in. She hasn’t been honest about what happened that night but things will have to come out and she revisits the past to figure out what really went down.

Ugh the characters were all terrible and I loved them for it. This kept me engaged the entire time and when it came to the last 25% it felt like a fire hydrant of plot twists and revelations.

Also Karissa Vacker is the narrator. Fantastic job as always.

Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan audio for an advanced listening copy.

I thought it was twisty, and the ending was wild but overall I don't think this book really added anything to my life. I didn't need this story and these messy liars lol I think I was more irritated with the secrets than enthralled by them. I found Emma pretty insufferable, her devotion to shitdick Nathan was really pissing me off yet I'm somehow sad her baby won't have a dad. The fact that Emma said she wanted to kiss Gabriel at the end of the book like girl no. Don't. I thought JJ was a classic fuck up and didn't have a ton of dimension to her character and Daphne was the most interesting I wish she had been the mc!!! I think most of my disgust was that their parents were awful and I didn't care that they were murdered. All that to say I'm giving it 4 stars. I did enjoy it. But I just really enjoy KAM's paranormal shit a lot more.

3.5⭐️

Thank you to NetGalley and Flatiron Books for the ARC copy of this one!

I absolutely devoured What Lies In The Woods, so I was expecting a huge push from this book also, but unfortunately it fell flat for me.

I will say that there is an underrated character that gave this a big plus for me, but I would’ve loved more of that persons story and background and role in everything.

I did really like how there were so many secrets in this story for sure! It kept me going back and forth on what I thought happened and who I thought the real villain was for sure.

I think had this one moved along a little quicker I would’ve really enjoyed it more. There just seemed to be a lull in the 3/4 mark of the book that slowed it down unfortunately.

I normally don’t like books where a crazy event happens and then some odd years later they all join together again to hash it all out. BUT this was done so well! The narration was good too on the audiobook version. The characters were easy to follow and it really kept my attention with everything happening. Kate Alice Marshall knows how to write a twisty thriller. I have enjoyed her other books as well.

Kept me engaged the entire time! Fun christmas thriller! Thank you @netgalley and to the publisher for allowing me to read this ebook!

4.5 stars!

Emma has just found out she’s pregnant, only to learn her husband lost his job and they’re losing the house they worked so hard for. The only solution she can think of is to temporarily move to her family’s abandoned house while figuring out a new plan. It was the place her parents were murdered when Emma and her sisters were teenagers, and their killer was never found - although everyone in town seems to think Emma did it. Moving home requires her to talk to her two estranged sisters, wrestle with memories of the past, and stay alive despite looming secrets and new threats.

This was my first book by Kate Alice Marshall and I loved it! It was just on the verge of having too many characters for me to keep track of, but in the end everyone did have their part. I loved all the twists and turns (there were MANY), and I loved that you really weren’t sure what happened to the parents until the very end. I thought everyone was guilty at some point!

There is some child abuse in the form of hitting when reliving past memories, so know that if it’s a trigger. Add this to your January TBR or BOTM box if you like a twisty sister thriller! It comes out Jan. 23.

Thank you to NetGalley and Flatiron Books for the digital ARC!

I was given an advanced reader copy through Netgalley for this book and was immediately interested in the premise. I saved it particularly for a plane ride because I knew it would be a page turner. Unfortunately, this one didn't pan out for me. (Technically, I have 5% left to read, but I can't bring myself to return to it).
Emma finds out that she's pregnant right when her husband informs her that he's been laid off from his job. They have no other choice but to move into the abandoned mansion that Emma and her sisters each own 1/3 of, the home where her parents were brutally murdered when she and her sisters were teenagers. She hasn't spoken to her sisters since, has avoided her hometown and the suspicion that has followed her like a cloud, but now, she is forced to face old demons.
The pacing of this one was weird from the start for me. It seemed that we rushed into the storyline really quickly before I had any connection to the characters. Come to find out this is because many of the characters, if not all, lacked nuance. A lot of times I felt as though I was reading from a character's perspective and all of a sudden the author would remember an attribute that the character was supposed to have. For example, they rarely play into her being pregnant during this book. I truly have no idea why they even made her pregnant for the story. At random times, they'd throw in 'and all of this, while pregnant!!".
The plot set up was obvious the whole way through, and I wasn't surprised by anything that happened. Each character felt like a caricature-- corny with little depth. The parents are set up to be these abusive assholes in the way that I think I thought abusive parents act when I was eight. They're evil with no depth, hate their kids, want control, and have no other aspects to their personality. But that doesn't feel human, and that's not how stories of abuse in 99% of situations go. Emma and her sisters hate their parents so much, and that's typically not how cases of abuse happen either. There are a lot of mixed feelings, desire to please parents, pain in not being loved enough-- none of that was really present in this book aside from a few one-off comments.
Another thing that drove me crazy was the dialogue. If you have estranged sisters, meeting again after a long time is going to feel awkward, tense, painful, hesitant: I feel like the author jumped into dialogue that was not fit for how that conversation would actually go with real people. It felt so ingenuine and phony.
And Nathan sucked. I get that the point was for Nathan to suck, but he hardly had any likeable characteristics that made me understand why we were there in the first place. There was no back story on how they met, how they fell in love, or her feelings about him. So by the time the big reveal happens in the book about him in particular, I truly didn't give a shit.
I felt like Kate Alice Marshall had a lot of potential for this book, but it wasn't well constructed in my opinion. It felt like she was making details up as she went along.

Kate Alice Marshall has done it again!

Three sisters and their parent’s murder. I was invested the entire time. Even though my suspicions from the beginning were correct, I loved the ride.

Marshall knows how to craft a story that is interesting and compelling with solid and flawed characters. It’s such a joy to read.

I do hope that she incorporates her more supernatural and spooky vibes into her adult fiction that I love so much from her Young Adult work, but that wasn’t what this book was trying to do, but a good note for other readers of Kate Alice Marshall to go into this expecting a story without the supernatural elements.

Overall, I loved this book and can’t wait for her next release.

Thank you Netgalley and Macmillan for gifting me an advanced E-copy in exchange for my honest review. I have now purchased a copy for my shelves and am so happy I got to read it pre-release.

I enjoyed Marshall’s previous book What Lies in the Woods and didn’t realize this book was by her at first. She does have a style – I liked the last book (it was my BOTM for one of the months this year) but I liked this one even better. I think this one had a more twisted plot and played on the relationship between estranged sisters very well.

This book takes place both past and present and jumps between the sister’s point of view. It’s hard to like any of the sisters, but I do find myself rooting for Emma to have a happy ending after everything she has been through and how she has forced herself to not be happy to make up for her past. As the book goes on, I dislike her husband more and more…

I did not want to put this book down once I got going. The book ends with the twists all tied up (sort of), and it’s a satisfying ending.

Would I recommend it? Yes! It’s definitely not a cozy mystery like I’ve been into reading lately. There are some graphic scenes explained but the twists and the building of the suspense throughout the book was great.

Kate Alice Marshall is a new autobuy author for me! I liked this one even more than her debut, What Lies in The Woods. The twists were twisting and I was a little shocked by the final reveal! This one was unique in that I really enjoyed the FMC and felt for her.

𝗡𝗼 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄 by Kate Alice Marshall
Release Date: January 23, 2024

𝗠𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆
I loved this book! From the very beginning I was hooked. Emma and her husband move back to her childhood home and also the place where they were murdered. Everyone in town thinks she was the one who did it. Was it her? One of her sisters? Or someone else entirely? Kate Alice Marshall does such a great job writing multiple POVs and different timelines. Each chapter leaves you with a little bit more, and when you think you've got it all figured out- you're wrong. I loved the twists and the ending. Highly recommend.

Thank you to NetGalley, Kate Alice Marshall and Flat Iron Books for an ARC!