Best Shari Lapena Books

The best books by Shari Lapena — 6 titles spanning Thriller, Mystery, averaging 4.03 BLT stars.

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Shari Lapena built her reputation on a single, devastatingly effective premise: the people closest to you are hiding something. The Couple Next Door made her name with its whiplash twists and suffocating suburban dread, and she's refined that formula across a string of compulsive, quick-burn thrillers. Her prose is clean and propulsive — she strips away atmosphere to keep pages turning, trusting that paranoia and momentum will do the heavy lifting. Everyone Here Is Lying shows her at her sharpest, layering unreliable perspectives until the ground shifts beneath you. Lapena is unabashedly commercial in the best sense: she knows exactly what she's delivering and delivers it without fuss. If you want tightly plotted domestic suspense where the twists are genuinely surprising and the reading experience is almost uncomfortably fast, Lapena is a reliable hit.

Shari Lapena's highest-rated book in our collection is She Didn't See It Coming (4.25 BLT stars). Browse the full list below.

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    She Didn't See It Coming

    by Shari Lapena

    ★ 4.25 BLT Score (107.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.89 Goodreads (107.3K)
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    The Couple Next Door

    by Shari Lapena

    ★ 4.18 BLT Score (720.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.8 Goodreads (720.1K)
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    Everyone Here Is Lying

    by Shari Lapena

    ★ 4.11 BLT Score (223.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (223.8K)
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    What Have You Done?

    by Shari Lapena

    ★ 3.98 BLT Score (102.9K ratings)
    ★ 3.76 Goodreads (102.9K)
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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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    Getting Away with Murder

    by Shari Lapena

    ★ 3.72 BLT Score (134 ratings)
    ★ 3.72 Goodreads (134)
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