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Kate Alice Marshall is back at Book of the Month – other BOTMs include What Lies in the Woods.
This is an early release that's only available to our members—the rest of the world has to wait to read it.
Small-town secrets and family tensions are unleashed when a married couple moves into an old home with a bloody past.
Multiple viewpoints
Nonlinear timeline
Unreliable narrator
Marriage issues
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.
As the holidays approach, there are always plenty of people to see and a long list of tasks that need to be completed. During this hectic time of year, I often turn to thrillers for their quick pace and twists that make it impossible to stop reading—even when I have a million and one other things to do. No One Can Know immediately drew me in with its atmospheric writing and cast of suspicious characters, each with their own secrets.
Emma hasn’t been completely honest with her husband about her past. He knows that her parents have passed, but what he doesn’t know is that they were brutally murdered in Emma’s family home . . . and that Emma was a suspect. Although the police never found the person responsible, Emma has never been able to shake her small town’s suspicions. When financial hardship strikes, Emma and her husband are forced to move back into her parents’ old home, which brings her estranged sisters back home as well. As memories and secrets reveal themselves, Emma and her sisters start to question what happened the night her parents were murdered and who is responsible.
No One Can Know perfectly blends family drama, long-buried secrets, and surprising twists, leaving you guessing until the very end. A completely unforgettable read, Kate Alice Marshall’s latest is the perfect start to your December reading. Don’t forget to add it to your box—you’re in for an exciting journey.
Olivia G.
Brooklyn, NY
Oooo, full of twists! Definitely asks the question on whether or not you can even trust your own memory, and poses the lengths someone will go. Kept me guessing and very engrossing! 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Aryonna E.
North Hollywood, CA
This book…. Was frustrating. Not in a bad way more of a “just talk to each other!” Way lol you think you know what happens and you literally don’t until the last couple of pages. Finished it in hours
Marjorie N.
Black Creek, WI
This kept me guessing the entire read and kept my interest the entire time. There were a few “didn’t see that coming” moments but loved how my constant curiosity kept me in this book the entire read!
Mackenzie S.
Iowa City, IA
4/5⭐️ Couldn’t put this book down! Loved the alternating perspectives throughout and just had to know what was happening next. Kinda predictable ending (IMO) with a slight twist thrown in just before.
Tereasa J.
Union, MO
First time reading this author and I absolutely loved her writing style! This book, I could not put it down!!! The story was like none I have read before and the plot twist at the very end, ONG😳😳😳
