Aubrey Hamilton is now a widow or at least that is what she supposes her new status is. Her husband, Joshua Hamilton, disappeared five years ago and was never seen or heard from again. His mother, Daisy, has pushed for a legal declaration of death so that she can collect a sizable life insurance policy and now the state of Tennessee has declared Joshua Hamilton to be legally dead. The problem with the life insurance money is that Aubrey is the beneficiary but Daisy plans to contest that little detail, being the horrible woman that she is.

Aubrey has spent a hellish five years and has no idea how to move forward in her life. All she ever wanted was for Josh to return home to her and for her life to be as it once was. She knows that is not possible because Josh is dead. He would have to be, wouldn't he, to not return to her in five years? After all, they had been in love, right? Of course they had been. They had known each other since they were children and had simply followed the logical path of friendship to true romantic love.

It had been impossible for Aubrey to move forward in her life without Josh because she had no answers. They had gone to a hotel one night to help friends celebrate their upcoming wedding with separate bachelor and bachelorette parties. Josh had kissed her and she watched him head off to the bachelor party. That was the last time she had seen him.

A lot of blood had been found back at their house later and Aubrey had been arrested and charged with his murder. Thankfully, the prosecution did not have enough evidence to convict her so she had been trying to simply get on with her life since then. It was not really working out well.

Then one night she meets a stranger; a man who reminds her so much of Josh. She is ready to feel alive again and enters into an intensely passionate relationship with this man. His name is Chase but is he really who he says he is? Can she trust him?

To make things even more confusing, Aubrey has begun to receive clues that point to Josh being alive after all. But he couldn't be. If he had been alive all this time, surely he would have contacted her. This is a question that Aubrey simply must have an answer to and she starts to dig into the past even though she is unwittingly putting herself in danger. Will she find the answers that she needs and get out alive?

As a longtime fan of J. T. Ellison, I know exactly what to expect from her books and NO ONE KNOWS does not disappoint. With three dimensional characters that bring out strong emotions in her readers as well as a mind bending plot, this is one of the most compelling and captivating of all of her efforts to date. Told in different timelines as well as from different characters, NO ONE KNOWS will keep you on the edge of your seat. It is deliciously nerve jangling and kept me reading late into the night.

If you like mysteries that will make your hair stand on end and your heart pound, NO ONE KNOWS is the one for you. The twists and turns throughout the book will keep you guessing until the ending that you never see coming. You are guaranteed a roller coaster ride that will have you thinking about it long after you have climbed off of the tracks. It might even make you want to get back on and experience the ride once more.

If you are not familiar with J. T. Ellison's work, NO ONE KNOWS is a wonderful standalone book to help you make her acquaintance. You are going to love her!

Book Summary

In an obsessive mystery as thrilling as The Girl on the Train and The Husband’s Secret, New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison will make you question every twist in her page-turning novel—and wonder which of her vividly drawn characters you should trust.

The day Aubrey Hamilton’s husband is declared dead by the state of Tennessee should bring closure so she can move on with her life. But Aubrey doesn’t want to move on; she wants Josh back. It’s been five years since he disappeared, since their blissfully happy marriage—they were happy, weren’t they?—screeched to a halt and Aubrey became the prime suspect in his disappearance. Five years of emptiness, solitude, loneliness, questions. Why didn’t Josh show up at his friend’s bachelor party? Was he murdered? Did he run away? And now, all this time later, who is the mysterious yet strangely familiar figure suddenly haunting her new life?

In No One Knows, the New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Nicholas Drummond series expertly peels back the layers of a complex woman who is hiding dark secrets beneath her unassuming exterior. This masterful thriller for fans of Gillian Flynn, Liane Moriarty, and Paula Hawkins will pull readers into a you’ll-never-guess merry-go-round of danger and deception. Round and round and round it goes, where it stops…no one knows.

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