You wanted to see a day the life of Heather Quinn, but today really isn’t a good day for it. I was scheduled to be volunteering at the school library this morning, but instead I’m sitting here in the back of a nondescript café thirty blocks from my Upper East Side apartment waiting for someone who is already thirty minutes late. My husband thinks I’m running errands, so please don’t ask me who I’ve come here to meet. My lies have been multiplying like rabbits lately and I prefer not to add more to the colony.
Let’s just say, I’m taking matters into my own hands.
I’ll put your mind at ease and fill you in on the fact that I do have a plan. My husband says my plans should come with a mandatory waiting period, like purchasing a firearm. But what he doesn’t know can’t hurt him. Besides, he thinks people are well intentioned, whereas I see the world for what it is: carnivorous.
If I seem a little jittery, it has nothing to do with the caffeine in my lukewarm latte. Lately, my insides have felt like as pressurized as a shaken soda can. After the absurd rumors that are being spread about my daughter online, can you blame me? I’m certainly not going to let those responsible get away with it.
While I’ve been waiting here I’ve read a few posts on UrbanMyth and pecked out one of my own. You haven’t heard of UrbanMyth? It’s an anonymous neighborhood forum grouped by zip code. I can disclose anything on want on there – confessions, secrets, gossip – and it can’t be traced back to me. And I can read salacious posts from other people. It’s like digital Xanax.
I shudder to think what would happen if anyone ever knew who was behind my anonymous posts on UrbanMyth. I can’t even fathom what I’d do if all that dirty laundry was aired. Well, I know one thing for certain.
I’d kill to keep those secrets hidden.
No One Needs to Know
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Release: May 2023
Format: Print, Digital, Audio
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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.
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.
Meet the author
Lindsay Cameron worked as a corporate lawyer for many years in Vancouver and New York City before leaving the law behind to write books. Her first novel, Biglaw, was published in 2015. Just One Look, her suspense debut, was named one of the season’s best reads by Oprah Daily, Parade, Entertainment Weekly, and others. Her latest thriller, No One Needs to Know is now available. She lives in New York City where she is currently at work on her next book.
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