Thank you Libro.fm / Macmillan Audio for the ALC and Flatiron Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of No One Can Know in exchange for my honest review.
Publisher: Flatiron Books / Macmillan Audio
Published: January 23, 2024
Summary:
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:
This is the third book I’ve read by Kate Alice Marshall and I have to say, I really like her writing style. It’s her second adult thriller and she’s definitely got staying power in this genre.
This is a twisty whodunit that explores the complicated relationships between sister which I always love, having two sisters myself. It kept me guessing all the way through and I had no idea where this was headed. A trauma caused a rift between the sisters and they have gone their separate ways. It isn’t until Emma returns to the family home that the secrets start unraveling and boy does that drama pick up!
I loved the way the author explored how we might assumptions about memories and or what happens if those memories are incomplete. Told using a dual timeline this story builds in suspense to finally solve the mystery of the cold case of what happened to the sisters’ parents all those years ago.
This was a bit of a slow-burn at times but the pay-off was definitely worth it. The twists lead to a shocking ending that totally took me by surprise!
Audio thoughts:
I was thrilled to see that Karissa Vacker was narrating this one. She’s one of my favorite narrators and she does an excellent job narrating this one. She’s able to give each character their own unique voice and personality and her pacing and intonation are spot on.
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