Tell No One by Barbara Taylor Sissel is the story of a family gone wrong mixed with suspense! 

I enjoyed this book, although it was fairly easy to figure out - I did like the alternating story lines and the way they all came together. Caro & Harris has my heart from the beginning! 

This book is a solid read - 3 stars ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️ me- if you are looking for an easy quick entertaining thriller read- Tell No One is for you ! 

Enjoy!

Secrets and twists are what defines this book.

At times slow burn, at times fast paced, "Tell No one" is definitely a read you can pick up during a weekend and get engrossed in.

I received a free e-copy of Tell No One by Barbara Taylor Sissel from NetGalley for my honest revew.

Caroline's dying Aunt last request for her was to find her (Caroline's) father. A father who abandoned her as a child, remarried another woman and had another child named Harris. Caroline loves her Aunt, who was like a mom to her and wants to do as her Aunt asked. Caroline decides to find her father but she uncovers things along the way that put her own life in danger.

I struggled getting into this book. The first half of the book was a bit slow and it did eventually pick up but then I even struggled with connecting with the characters.

This story is way beyond depressing! It is too....much for me! When adults cannot handle themselves and start taking drugs, cheating with the accounting in their business, risk everything, a beautiful wife, sons, daughter, I cannot deal with it! All of the main characters have to depressing problems; a high school coach, who is also the athletic director, buying drugs off of one his students?! A beautiful woman who made the wrong choice in high school, is now married to a crook, why did she make such poor decisions? Her parents divorced when she was little, and she never got over it! Heart pounding depression! No Thanks! Thank you Netgalley!
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This book has secrets. This book has more secrets! Secrets that are to Tell No One. But eventually secrets are hard to hide. 
Caroline Corbett has been estranged from her father, Hoff, for over 30 years. She hasn't had any desire to be in contact or to have anything do to with him. But she has Aunt Lanie who has one last wish before she dies and that's to see her brother to make peace with him. Caroline wants to honor her aunt's last wishes so she starts out on a mission to find her father and bring him back to Aunt Lanie.
Along this journey, Caroline is struggling with personal and emotional issues with her marriage and business. What secrets does she discover? What is she going to do? 
Then there's Harris. He's the step son of Hoff. Harris doted on his step father. He was his hero....until.....more secrets. 
I was pulled into this trove of secrets from the beginning of the book. I felt for Caroline. She wanted to do something for her aunt but it opened up a whole desperate search that revealed shocking events. Ms. Sissel developed characters that were each unique and I could get a feeling of who they were....good and bad. The issues they were living with were heart wrenching and each one had different things they were trying to overcome or failing at. They seemed like hopeless situations. 
I didn't get the connections to each other of the characters right away but that also contributed to the secrets in this book. I never expected where this book took me at the end. It was a shock to me! 
I love the switch in chapters between the two POVs of the main characters, Caroline and Harris. The way Ms. Sissel works this in the book to tie them together was perfect. 
This book is titled Tell No One...but I think it's a novel to TELL EVERYONE to open it up and read a very good book. 
Thank you Netgalley for the copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. I also thank Ms. Sissel for writing it and that I could enjoy it. It's a five star read for me.

This was a good fast paced thriller with enough twists and turns to keep you interested . The  characters were well fleshed out . Just an overall good book

Tell No One by Barbara Taylor Sissel is a full length, standalone novel.
I want to be honest, the story gave me whiplash at times. I started reading and I couldn't get a grip on the charaters and it took me some time to get in the story.
Tell No One is a slow burn and when everything is revealed in the end the different strings come together nicely. But til this point I was confused.
I give solid 3,5 Stars.

As the fast-paced story twists and turns, the secrets and deception do not stop. Two siblings must now must race the clock to find their missing father.  In this  shocking, take-no-prisoners tale of Action, and suspense, definitely not for the faint-of-heart

From the start, I was drawn into the story of Caroline Corbett’s search for her father, who’d been missing thirty years. The story has more than one story line, which eventually come together as one, the puzzle pieces all fitting together perfectly. This is the kind of book where the slow burn of suspense keeps building right up to the surprising twist at the end. I highly recommend this novel!

Tell No One by Barbara Taylor Sissel  was a bit of a slow burn for me. It did turn out to be an interesting premise to a story that i ended up enjoying. 
Tell No One is told from two points of view. Caroline a daughter to Hoff who is trying to figure out what happened to him before her aunt,  Hoffs sister dies of cancer. On her journey of trying to find her father she ends up learning things about her father she hadn't known by talking to people who knew her dad. Harris is Hoffs stepson who the only father figure he ever had was Hoff. Harris is now a father of two sons and is struggling with the loss of Hoff and football with a drug addiction. That has led his morals astray.
 The two stories although i knew they were step siblings were so different i wasn't sure how they were going to connect.  When they did it was definitely a shocker and i was glad that i continued reading.  

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Good mystery/thriller, although their was a lot of drama in this story too!

This book centers around two people. Caroline and Harris. Caroline is looking for her father Hoff whom she has not seen for 30 years. Meanwhile her marriage is in trouble and her aunt is dying of cancer. Harris is Caroline's step-brother, although they never met. When her father was married to Harris's mother, Caroline refused to go meet them. Now 30 years later, Harris is going through a really rough time and has some past troubles that won't leave him alone.

The story is told alternating between chapters about Caroline and her search and Harris and his mess of a life. There are parts that are exciting, making it a mystery/thriller, but overall with everything else going on it is just a whole lot of drama. It is not a bad story, but not one of the best or most exciting books, therefore I would give this book 3.5 stars if that was possible. Good enough to read and enjoy, but not so great I would go about recommending it to others.

Caroline's father disappeared from her life over thirty years ago. She had no hankering to look for him because what she knew and was told about him was disappointing. But his sister Lanie, the aunt who brought her up is at death's door and her wish is that she see her brother once more before she dies and Caroline is trying very hard to track down the illusive Hoff and bring him to Lanie's bedside.

Caroline does not realise that her quest for her father is going to make many people uneasy. From the people he worked with to those whom he had relationships/children with all are determined to block Caroline from her search. Caroline is determined however and despite a dangerous episode where someone runs her off the road, causing her to crash she still pursues the trail.


Disappointing though it is with the end result, the story of her search was a good one. It unearthed clues not only to her father's past but also to the histories of those who were linked to her father - and they were for the most very unsavoury. That is why people were not keen to allow her to unearth information about Hoff.


There were quite a few stories here apart from Hoff and Caroline and it detracted a bit from the main story.

A lover of all things football, I was pumped to realize this novel had a secondary football theme. 

Unfortunately, it focused not at all on the actual game, and entirely on the corruption many colleges still face today. But oddly, it doesn't even focus much on that. 

Why? 

Well, this book has a multitude of story-lines, which eventually come together as one...but the road getting to that intersection is long, slow, dreary, and a rather painful one. (That's my polite way of saying this book is boring.) 

Many people have commented about the amazing ending, but I found it to be anti-climatic. I wasn't surprised, I wasn't intrigued...frankly, it was entirely expected. I was impressed by the author's ability to tie many, many threads together, leaving no loose ends, but other than that...meh. 

2.5 stars

**Deep appreciation to NetGalley, Lake Union Publishing, and Barbara Taylor Sissel for the ARC. All opinions are my own.

Publication Date: May 14, 2019
Reviewed on Goodreads: May 13, 2019

Caroline is trying to locate her estranged father in order to reunite him with his dying sister. This takes her on a journey into her own past and leads her to confront truths she has been avoiding since childhood. 

I disconnected with this book about half way through when it really started dragging. I struggled on to the end although I no longer cared much whether Caroline found her dad or not. 

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for an advance copy of this title in exchange for an unbiased review.

From the absolutely beautiful cover to the very last word of this book you will be drawn into the story of Caroline Corbett’s and her hunt for her father. Caroline has not seen her dad for thirty years. Partly because she didn’t want to. She distanced herself when she was a teen and he had remarried. He had reached out to her several times but she would have nothing to do with him. Now she regrets not knowing where he is or what he is doing. Her aunt, his sister, is dying and wants nothing more than to see her brother before the end so Caroline starts her search for her missing father.

Caroline experiences many ups and downs on this journey. Some are life threatening and others are heartbreaking. But she won’t give up. She loves her Aunt like a mother and wishes to fulfill her dying wish.

This book has wonderful characters who you will either love or dislike greatly. It’s a family drama but also a family who love each other. This book has so many aspects to it. You’ll see attempted murder, drug addiction, PTSD, clinical depression, love(lots of love), abuse, brushes with the law. There are lots of emotions in this wonderful book. I loved that the ending was not rushed and all of my questions were answered. No strings were left dangling. It was just a perfectly told story. One that will certainly bring you to tears in parts and have you on the edge of your seat in others. There are so many ups and downs you will want to find out what happens next. I had a very hard time putting this book down once you start it. I spent my whole Saturday reading this book. It was truly so well done.

I highly recommend this book to everyone. It’s so good. You will not regret it at all.

It’s a big 5 stars from me and more if I could.

Thank you to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishers for an ARC of this book in exchange for my complete and honest review. I LOVED IT!!

Interesting read and not at all predictable!

I generally lump books I love into two categories:  books with amazing-I-want-them-to-be-my-best-friend or hate-them-but-it-feels-so-good-characters OR amazing plots where I may not attach to the characters but who cares because wow. 

Tell No One - while well written and easy to read - didn’t fall into either category. I found all of the characters in this book likeable enough despite their flaws, but I felt like there was too much going on to really invest in any of them.

From the beginning the reader follows two main characters. Caroline is searching for her dad, Hoff, who she hasn’t heard from in years. Harris is struggling with some serious demons and addiction issues, and we find out pretty quickly that Harris is Hoff’s stepson - but he also hasn’t seen Hoff in many years. It’s pretty clear that their stories will collide at some point, but for 90 percent of the book they’re separate. 

I think each character’s story could have been developed into its own book. Each character has side issues that I wanted to know more about, but they got swept away with minimal detail or resolution.  Yet, the book was still enjoyable to read and I didn’t see the end coming!!  Definitely worth the read.

Interesting and easy to read. Kept you on the edge of your seat wondering which way this was going to play out.

Barbara Taylor Sissel, Author of “Tell No One”, has written a captivating, intense, riveting, and unpredictable novel. The Genres for this Novel are Fiction, Mystery, and Suspense. The timeline for this novel in the present and goes to the past when it pertains to the events or characters in the story. The Author describes her characters as complex and complicated.

Caroline Corbett has many problems with her husband and their business and also has a daughter. Much of Caroline’s bitterness at life stems from the abandonment issues of her father leaving when she was a young girl. Her father left to marry another woman and become a father figure to her son. Then Hoff, her father just disappeared. Caroline’s dying Aunt, who is like a second mother to her, requests that Caroline find her brother Hoff.

With a heavy heart and ambivalent and angry feelings, Caroline begins her search by questioning certain people.  Caroline finds herself threatened and in danger. The more she searches for answers, the bigger the danger. There are twists and turns, and I really never expected the way the story ended. What a surprise!!!

I appreciate that the author discusses the problems of drugs in today’s world, and the effects on the person, and loved ones in their lives. The dark secrets in this story also when revealed changed many things. I would highly recommend this novel for readers who enjoy a suspenseful mystery.

I've enjoyed this story. This was a good family drama and the first read of Barbara Taylor Sissel though it won't be my last. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 from me! Thank you Lake Union Publisher and Netgalley for this book in exchange for my honest review.

What was at its foundation a really good story was distorted by a lot of extra stuff. Every character seemed to have multiple issues in addition to the main story, which was supposedly finding Hoff, Caroline's father. Up until about 70% of the way through the book there are two completely distinct story lines. We know they have to meet up at some point. We even know their connection. But in addition to this set up, Caroline is having serious issues in her marriage and her step-brother, Harris, is going through his own problems. How much theses other story lines impact the main story line is less than how much they distract from it. Even when the story is done and the reader reaches the epilogue, it is dragged out and under by excessive details. An epilogue should be a concise, focused wrap up of any lose story threads there might be. That is it. And there is my main problem with the story. Individually I like the characters, I just wish things had been paired back or maybe save one of the extra story lines for another book?