No One Needs to Know
A Novel
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3.7 • 33 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
When an anonymous neighborhood forum gets hacked, the darkest secrets of New York’s wealthiest residents come to light—including some worth killing for—in this gripping suspense novel from the author of Just One Look.
“Big Little Lies meets Gossip Girl in this unputdownable read as smart and witty as it is delectable . . . I raced through it!”—Liv Constantine, author of The Last Mrs. Parrish
A HARPER’S BAZAAR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
It was all confidential. Right up to the moment when it wasn’t.
UrbanMyth: It was lauded as an alternative to the performative, show-your-best-self platforms—an anonymous discussion board grouped by zip code. The residents of Manhattan’s exclusive Upper East Side disclosed it all, things they would never share with their friends or their spouses: secret bank accounts, steamy affairs, tidbits of juicy gossip. The same people who, as parents, go to astonishing lengths to ensure that their children gain admission to the most prestigious boarding schools and universities. So when a “hacktivist” group breaks into the forum and exposes the real identity of each poster, the repercussions echo down Park Avenue with a force that none could have anticipated.
And someone ends up dead.
Is the murderer Heather, the outsider who would do anything to get her daughter into the elite’s good graces and into their even better schools? Norah, the high-powered executive failing to balance work with the emotional responsibilities of motherhood? Or Poppy, whose perfect-on-the-outside façade conceals more than her share of secrets?
Each of them has something to hide.
Each of them will do anything to keep secrets hidden.
And each of them just might kill to protect their own.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this clever if at times implausible page-turner from Cameron (Just One Look), Heather Quinn, a Wall Street wheeler-dealer turned stay-at-home mom, is cautiously optimistic that all the years of strategizing, volunteering, and sucking up to the right people will vault her academically gifted if socially anxious 13-year-old daughter, Violet, a Manhattan private school student, into an Ivy-feeding boarding school. Then the unthinkable happens. Following a dance at an ultra-exclusive East Side club, a photo of Violet apparently vaping there surfaces on Instagram, along with vicious, viral posts on the anonymous UrbanMyth message board accusing the girl of dealing drugs to her schoolmates. With Violet subsequently threatened with expulsion, Heather turns detective to try to determine who set Violet up, an effort that puts her on a collision course with two rival momzillas—a driven hedge fund managing director and a snobby blue-blood socialite—especially once her digging starts to unearth secrets including adultery and blackmail. Fast-paced intrigue spiked with social satire ensues, until the disappointing deus ex machina denouement. Nevertheless, those inclined toward a fizzy cocktail of suspense and schadenfreude should enjoy.
