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No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall
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No One Can Know

Repeat author
Kate Alice Marshall is back at Book of the Month – other BOTMs include What Lies in the Woods.
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by Kate Alice Marshall

Quick take

Small-town secrets and family tensions are unleashed when a married couple moves into an old home with a bloody past.

Good to know

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    Multiple viewpoints

  • Illustrated icon, Icon_NonLinear

    Nonlinear timeline

  • Illustrated icon, Icon_Unreliable

    Unreliable narrator

  • Illustrated icon, Icon_MarriageIssues

    Marriage issues

Why I love it

Rachael Burlette
BOTM Editorial Team

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.

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Synopsis

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.

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Preview

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