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Thursday, April 18, 2024

Review: No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall

Author: Kate Alice Marshall
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Publication Date: January 2024

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. 

No One Can Know finds Emma returning to her childhood home with her husband.  She hasn't been back since high school when her parents were murdered.  The entire town think she is responsible but no one could prove it.  Now that she is back, she decided she wants to figure out what really happened that night and how her sisters are involved.  Finally, I have a thriller this year that Ii can say I really enjoyed.

The story was really good.  I was kept guessing and didn't call what really happened.  I kept changing my mind and, in the end, was completely wrong.  I thought the use of "then" and "now" was really effective in laying out what happened that night.  I also liked that we get a perspective from all three sisters.  Surprisingly, I wasn't annoyed by any of them.  The one person I didn't care for is murdered and I wasn't upset about it. I do recommend this one and suggest going into it with out knowing to much about it. 



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