Paula Hawkins

Born 1972

From Harare, Harare Province, Zimbabwe · Nationality: United Kingdom · Writes fiction and nonfiction

Paula Hawkins worked as a journalist for fifteen years before turning her hand to fiction. She lives in London. The Girl on the Train is her first thriller. It is being published all over the world and has been optioned by Dreamworks.

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Books by Paula Hawkins in order

Books by Paula Hawkins in the order they were published, from Money Goddess (2006) to Blind Spot (2022).

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Gillian FlynnHer thrillers, especially Gone Girl, are often compared to Hawkins's work for unreliable narrators and domestic secrets.
Ruth WareWrites psychological suspense with isolated settings and unreliable or frightened narrators.
Tana FrenchWrites character-driven crime fiction with layered narrators and close attention to psychology.
Shari LapenaWrites domestic thrillers in which ordinary households hide serious secrets.
Lucy FoleyWrites suspense novels with multiple perspectives and a group of people tied to a central crime.

None of This Is True
Lisa Jewell
about 6 hours to read
Its twisting structure, a podcaster whose life starts to mirror a mystery she's exploring, echoes the reader-deceiving pacing and domestic unease you enjoy in A Slow Fire Burning.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith
Book 1 in the Ripliad series · about 5 hours to read
For a older, sharper cousin of your favourites, this psychological thriller shares the close inside view of a flawed narrator whose self-justifications make you complicit in the tension.
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Guest List
Lucy Foley
about 6 hours to read
A wedding on a remote island, told through shifting perspectives, builds the claustrophobic tension and layered suspicion you'll recognise from Into the Water's small, closed community of secrets.
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In the Woods
Tana French
Book 1 in the Dublin Murder Squad series · about 10 hours to read
You'll appreciate the psychological depth and buried secrets here. Like Into the Water, it's a literary-leaning mystery that lets its troubled narrator's past seep into the present, with strong sense of place.
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