Where to Start with Shari Lapena
- Best entry point → She Didn't See It Coming
- Best standalone → The Couple Next Door
- What readers keep coming back to → Everyone Here Is Lying
- Highest rated by readers → What Have You Done?
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She Didn't See It Coming
by Shari Lapena
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Successful couple Bryden and Sam seem to have everything until he can't reach her one day and comes home to find blood everywhere but his wife gone.
★ 3.89 Goodreads (107.3K ratings) - 2
The Couple Next Door
by Shari Lapena
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Parents attend a dinner party next door with just a baby monitor for security, but their six-month-old daughter vanishes, revealing that everyone has secrets worth killing for.
★ 3.80 Goodreads (720.1K ratings) - 3
Everyone Here Is Lying
by Shari Lapena
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Nine-year-old Avery vanishes from her safe suburban neighborhood, and every adult around her is hiding something damaging.
★ 3.78 Goodreads (223.8K ratings) - 4
What Have You Done?
by Shari Lapena
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Lapena weaves small-town secrets around teenagers telling ghost stories, building her signature tension through one devastating question.
★ 3.76 Goodreads (102.9K ratings) - 5
Getting Away with Murder
by Shari Lapena
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Jill and Ted's magazine-perfect brownstone reflects their identity until financial collapse threatens everything. Lapena explores how home ownership and status become dangerous obsessions with fatal results.
★ 3.72 Goodreads (134 ratings) - 6
The Twisted Women's Book Club
by Karin Slaughter, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Sarah Pekkanen, Linwood Barclay, Naomi Hirahara, K.J. Howe, Robert Dugoni, Alison Gaylin, Heather Gudenkauf, Shari Lapena, Clare Mackintosh, Stacy Willingham, January LaVoy, Andi Arndt, Saskia Maarleveld, Kathleen Early, Lauren Ezzo, Stephanie Epstein, Jenn Lee, Brittany Pressley, Cindy Kay, Nancy Wu, Nicola F. Delgado, Emily Lawrence, Karen Murray, Adepero Oduye, Daniela Acitelli
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A wealthy self-help author's monthly book club seems perfect from the outside, but the literary discussions mask deadly intentions among the carefully selected members.
★ 3.52 Goodreads (7.6K ratings)