Four years ago, adventure-loving Auckland lawyer Rose Carlyle grabbed global attention with her number one internationally bestselling debut, The Girl in the Mirror. Now she’s back with another cracking thriller that shows no let-up or ‘difficult second novel’ wobbles.

Fans of Carlyle’s smash hit debut and new readers alike will find plenty to enjoy in No One Will Know, a twisting, propulsive tale centred on Eve Sylvester, a young woman scrabbling to survive after her life is upturned by fate and circumstance. After a car crash rips away the future Eve was hoping for on her return to Sydney from adventure sailing across the South Pacific, the former foster kid is left broke, desperate and pregnant.

No living relatives, no good friends, no one to help. Acutely aware of the impact of growing up in tough circumstances, Eve can’t resist a lucrative offer as a live-in nanny for a glamorous couple on their mansion estate in Paradise Bay on a remote island off the southern coast. But has Eve made a deal with the devil, out of love for her unborn child?

Carlyle shows great mastery of pace and narrative drive in No One Will Know, luring readers into Eve’s story and keeping pages whirring with harrowing events and danger. The story hurtles along like a record-breaking Sydney to Hobart maxi yacht. A cracking ‘beach read’ that also engages emotionally with character and underlying themes.

Reviewed by Craig Sisterson

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rose Carlyle is a lawyer and keen adventurer. She has crewed on scientific yachting expeditions to subantarctic islands and has sailed with her family from Thailand to South Africa.

She is the author of the #1 international bestseller The Girl in the Mirror and lives in Auckland with her three children.