Shari Lapena

Shari Lapena

SHARI LAPENA is the #1 internationally bestselling author of seven suspense novels including The Couple Next Door, A Stranger in the House, An Unwanted Guest, Someone We Know, The End of Her, Not a Happy Family, and Everyone Here is Lying. 

A former lawyer and English teacher, Shari now writes full time from a farm in Ontario, where she lives with her husband.

Her first thriller, The Couple Next Door, was a runaway global bestseller, selling  4 million copies worldwide. It was WHSmith’s “Book of the Year” in 2016 and the #1 Adult Fiction Title in the UK for 2017. All of Shari’s novels have been New York Times, UK Sunday Times, and Globe and Mail bestsellers. Three of her books have been Richard & Judy Book Club Picks. Her books have sold into forty territories around the world and have been optioned for film and TV.

She doesn’t want you to be able to put her books down.


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Books by Shari Lapena
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Fictions and Others

2026 | thriller, psychological thriller, suspense thriller, mystery | Release date July 28, 2026
2025 | thriller, crime fiction, suspense thriller, mystery
2024 | thriller, crime fiction, suspense thriller, mystery
2023 | thriller, crime fiction, suspense thriller, mystery
2021 | thriller, mystery, cozy mystery
2020 | thriller, crime fiction, psychological thriller, suspense thriller, mystery
2019 | thriller, crime fiction, psychological thriller, suspense thriller, mystery
2018 | thriller, crime fiction, suspense thriller, mystery
2017 | thriller, crime fiction, psychological thriller, suspense thriller, mystery
2016 | thriller, crime fiction, suspense thriller, mystery
2011 | romance
2009 | thriller

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