No One Knew by Kendra Elliot
#2 Noelle Marshall
Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Montlake
Published: 1.6.26
Pages: 314
Rating: 5 stars
Format: eARC
Source: Amazon
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GoodReads Synopsis:
For a detective and an FBI agent, two seemingly disparate murder investigations collide with a twist in an explosive novel of suspense by a Wall Street Journal bestselling author.
In the crisp mountain air of central Oregon, a teenage girl’s search for discarded cans leads to a horrifying a body, brutally murdered and abandoned in the woods. The case falls to Deschutes County Detective Noelle Marshall, who finds herself navigating a community steeped in secrets, suspicion, and distrust of outsiders—especially law enforcement.
Miles away, FBI Special Agent Max Rhodes investigates a different kind of darkness—chatter about a violent uprising from a shadowy militia group preparing for war. The two cases seem worlds apart. But as Noelle digs into the murdered man’s past and Max closes in on the source of the terror plot, their paths begin to converge in a terrifying way. This was no random killing. It was a message. A merciless killer and a hidden army are operating in the same shadows, and finding the link between them is the only thing standing between a single murder and a full-blown massacre.
Sophia Rose's Review
Noelle Marshall leaped to the eye as soon as she was introduced in the Columbia River series and the first book in her series blew me away. To say I was anticipating No One Knew is an understatement. Kendra Elliot captivates me from the first page every single time.
No One Knew is the second Noelle Marshall book, but I would recommend starting with the first one for sure. However, if one wants to get a better picture of all the principal characters around her, catching the Mercy Kilpatrick and Columbia River books first would do the thing.
Noelle Marshall and Max Rhodes have been dating and taking things slow since the events of the previous book, Her First Mistake. He has a big secret he’s keeping back until he feels it’s the right time in the relationship as is she. Their private time gets put on hold when his Bend FBI office catches the wisps of a growing home-grown terrorist threat and her county sheriff’s office gets called in on a dead body.
Their cases escalate when further developments occur. Max is working the FBI angle on terrorism with Mercy, even Mercy’s police chief husband, Truman gets in on the act while Noelle and her detective partner, Evan are following the trail of a couple local murders. Then, there is the person stalking Max’s sister, Kiera, to get to him and that lonesome, neglected girl, Emma, scared and not sure whom she can trust who is tentatively looking to Noelle to keep her safe.
No One Knew is a fabulous crossroads of multiple narration work, thrilling suspense, and carefully building relationship and personal growth. I was so glad that the secrets did eventually come out and was excited for how their cases developed and the big breath-taking finale.
All in all, this was cover to cover fabulous-ness. I was glad to see that there are more Noelle Marshall books planned. Those who love romantic suspense or thriller romances must try these.
Author Bio:
As a kid, I read and read and read. Laura Ingalls, Nancy Drew, and Trixie Belden were my close companions, and I was never without a book in hand. Today mysteries and suspense are my primary reading genres. I enjoy Lee Child, Karen Rose, Robert Crais, Lisa Gardner, Michael Connelly, and Tami Hoag. But I also love to escape with a historical romance or an engrossing fantasy set in another world. Authors are always huge readers.
In 2006 I’d recently finished one of Diana Gabaldon’s novels for the umpteenth time, and I loved how satisfied and content I felt at the end. A true sign of great storytelling. Could I provide that experience for a reader? I sat down and spent six months writing a contemporary romance. Strangely I kept tripping over dead bodies in each chapter. I got the hint and my stories evolved into suspense. I never felt the need to “tell the stories cluttering my head” or “share my work with the world” like some authors. My goal was to simply see if I could entertain a reader.
HIDDEN was the third manuscript I finished, but my first book purchased by a publisher. It came out in the summer of 2012 and since then has sold over a million copies. I won the Daphne du Maurier award three times and have hit the Wall Street Journal’s best seller list more than a dozen times. I’ve been an International Thriller Writers’s finalist and a finalist for Romantic Times Magazine’s best Romantic Suspense. As I update this in 2025, I’ve sold 14 million books, and I’m working on my twenty-fifth novel. I’ve also written eleven novellas and sold the TV rights for my Mercy Kilpatrick series, but the option was not renewed after two years, so the series is not in production.
I wouldn’t trade this career for anything, and I count my blessings every day, thankful that readers have embraced my books.
Sophia’s Bio:
Sophia is a quiet though curious gal who dabbles in cooking, book reviewing, piano-playing, and gardening. Road trips and campouts, museums and monuments, restaurants and theaters are her jam. Encouraged and supported by an incredible man and loving family. A Northern Californian transplant to the Great Lakes Region of the US. Lover of Jane Austen, Baseball, Cats, Scooby Doo, and Chocolate.
As a lifelong reader, it was inevitable that Sophia would discover book blogs and the joy of blog reviewing. Sophia is a prolific reader and audiobook listener which allows her to experience so many wonderful books, authors, and narrators. Few genres are outside her reading tastes, but her true love is fiction particularly history, mystery, sci-fi, and romance. Though, sorry, no horror or she will run like Shaggy and Scooby.
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