No One Can Know

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The USA TODAY Bestseller! Three sisters, two murders, and too many secrets to count. “A propulsive and intricate psychological thriller. . . Meticulously plotted. . . Family connections prove both their damage and their worth in this community-focused thriller.” —Kirkus (starred review) Fourteen years ago, the Palmer sisters—Emma, Juliette, and Daphne—left their home in Arden Hills and never returned. But when Emma discovers she’s pregnant and her husband loses his job, she has no option but to return to the house that she and her estranged sisters still own . . . and where their parents were murdered. Emma has never told anyone what she saw the night her parents died, even when she became the prime suspect. But her presence in the house threatens to uncover secrets that have stayed hidden for years, and the sisters are drawn together once again. As they face their memories of the past, rivalries restart, connections are forged, and, for the first time, Emma starts to ask questions about what really happened that night. The more Emma learns, the more riddles emerge. And Emma begins to wonder just what her siblings will do to keep the past buried, and whether she did the right thing staying quiet about what was whispered that night: “No one can know.”

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No One Can Know by Kate Alice Marshall is a chilling psychological thriller that centers on Emma Peterson, a woman haunted by a dark family secret from her past. Years ago, on a night that changed everything, Emma’s parents were murdered in their home—a tragedy for which her sister, Cass, was accused and subsequently imprisoned. Forced to change her identity and flee the town that whispered her name, Emma has spent her adult life trying to outrun the trauma and the guilt of what she witnessed—or perhaps, what she failed to stop. When she receives word that Cass is being released from prison, Emma’s carefully constructed life begins to unravel. She returns to her childhood home in Blackwood Bay, drawn back by an inexplicable pull to uncover the truth about that night. As she reconnects with her estranged family and digs into the buried details of the investigation, she realizes that the official narrative of her parents' death may be a lie. The deeper she probes, the more she realizes that someone in her family is still hiding something—and that they are willing to kill again to keep the past buried. Marshall weaves a complex narrative that oscillates between the traumatic past and the tense, atmospheric present. The book explores themes of memory, the fallibility of truth, and the claustrophobic nature of family secrets. As Emma confronts long-held beliefs, she is forced to question her own recollections of the night her parents died. The tension escalates as the lines between victim and villain blur, leading to a shocking conclusion that challenges everything the reader assumed about the Peterson sisters. It is a masterclass in unreliable narration and suspense, keeping readers off-balance until the final pages as Emma fights to reclaim her history while narrowly escaping those who want to erase it permanently.

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