Book Review - "No One Can Know" by Kate Alice Marshall

No One Can Know | by Kate Alice Marshall 

Publisher- Flat Iron Books

Available- January 23, 2024

The author of What Lies in the Woods returns with a novel about three sisters, two murders, and too many secrets to count.

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.

My Thoughts

I originally requested "No One Can Know" because I read Kate Alice Marshall's previous book, "What Lies in the Woods," and I absolutely adored it. Thank you, Netgalley and publisher Flatiron Books, for the eARC for review consideration. All opinions expressed are mine alone.

Although this book is classified as a thriller, I respectfully disagree. It should be classified as a mystery because the murder that centers around the book has already occurred, and we are working backwards trying to figure it all out. With that being said, you will be working backwards, forwards, upside down, and all around because there is a lot going on in this book. There are a lot of secrets and a lot of untrustworthy characters.

  

Unfortunately, the pacing was too slow for me, and it made it more difficult to hold my attention until the end of the book when the action and suspense actually started. Speaking of the end of the book, I was left with so many questions. Just when you think you've got it all figured out, the author stuns you with another reveal from one of the sisters. I am still not exactly sure who the murderer really was. I guess it's up for interpretation.

Overall, it was an entertaining read, and I would recommend this book to any mystery lover who is up for a good, hard challenge. Just remember, it's slow-building.

You can pre-order your  copy of "No One Can Know" by Kate Alice Marshall right here on Amazon. 

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