Best Sarah Pekkanen Books

The best books by Sarah Pekkanen — 5 titles spanning Thriller, averaging 4.10 BLT stars.

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Sarah Pekkanen built her reputation writing domestic thrillers that weaponize the mundane — marriages, friendships, apartments, routines — until the familiar turns genuinely sinister. The Wife Between Us, co-written with Greer Hendricks, is a masterclass in structural deception: you think you know what kind of story you're reading, and you're wrong. An Anonymous Girl uses a psychology study as its premise and pulls that thread until the whole sweater unravels. Pekkanen's prose is clean and propulsive, designed to keep you reading past the point when you should have put the book down. She's particularly skilled at constructing female relationships — friendships and rivalries that feel lived-in before they turn threatening. You Are Not Alone amplifies this to something close to paranoid. Readers who want psychological suspense grounded in the texture of real women's lives will find exactly that here.

Sarah Pekkanen's highest-rated book in our collection is The Wife Between Us (4.27 BLT stars). Browse the full list below.

Where to Start with Sarah Pekkanen

  1. 1
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    The Wife Between Us

    by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

    ★ 4.27 BLT Score (449.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.83 Goodreads (449.7K)
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    An Anonymous Girl

    by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

    ★ 4.19 BLT Score (182.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.79 Goodreads (182.5K)
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    You Are Not Alone

    by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

    ★ 4.12 BLT Score (92.9K ratings)
    ★ 3.75 Goodreads (92.9K)
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    The Locked Ward

    by Sarah Pekkanen

    ★ 3.97 BLT Score (22.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.67 Goodreads (22.7K)
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    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

    ★ 3.94 BLT Score (7.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.52 Goodreads (7.6K)
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