No One Knew

Sometimes you just don't connect with a book series and I'm sad to say that  after reading the first two books in Kendra Elliot's Noelle Marshall series, I'm calling it quits. 

I loved her Mercy Kilpatrick series and that was the saving grace in this book because Mercy plays quite a big role in this book, often overshadowing Noelle! Noelle's character felt underdeveloped and with its slow moving plot and too much character internal dialogue, this was a miss for me. 

This series and I will part ways but I remain a fan of the Mercy series and strongly recommend it to suspense readers who like small-town settings and main characters with an interesting backstory. 

My Rating: 2.75 stars

Author: Kendra Elliot

Genre: Suspense

Series: Noelle Marshall 2

Type and Source: ebook from Prime

Publisher: Montlake

First Published: Jan 6, 2026

Read: Oct 20-27, 2026

Book Description from GoodReads: 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.