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Lisa Unger was born on 26 April 1970 in Connecticut. However, she has spent most of her time in England, New Jersey and Netherlands. As an American author of contemporary fiction, Lisa Unger has managed to sell millions of copies worldwide, and some of her works appeared on New York Times best sellers list.

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Order of The Hollows Series

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1 Fragile 2010 Description / Buy
2 Darkness, My Old Friend 2011 Description / Buy
3 In the Blood 2014 Description / Buy
4 Crazy Love You 2014 Description / Buy
5 Ink and Bone 2016 Description / Buy

Order of House of Crows Series

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1 All My Darkest Impulses (Short Story) 2021 Description / Buy
2 Fog Descending (Short Story) 2021 Description / Buy
3 Circling the Drain (Short Story) 2021 Description / Buy
4 Love the Way You Lie (Short Story) 2021 Description / Buy

Order of Lydia Strong Series as Lisa Miscione

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1 Angel Fire 2002 Description / Buy
2 The Darkness Gathers 2003 Description / Buy
3 Twice 2004 Description / Buy
4 Smoke 2005 Description / Buy

Order of Ridley Jones Series

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1 Beautiful Lies 2006 Description / Buy
2 Sliver of Truth 2007 Description / Buy

Order of The Whispers Series

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1 The Whispers 2014 Description / Buy
2 The Burning Girl 2014 Description / Buy
3 The Three Sisters 2015 Description / Buy
4 The Whispering Hollows 2016 Description / Buy

Order of Lisa Unger Standalone Novels

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1 Black Out 2008 Description / Buy
2 Die for You 2008 Description / Buy
3 Heartbroken 2012 Description / Buy
4 The Red Hunter 2017 Description / Buy
5 Under My Skin 2018 Description / Buy
6 The Stranger Inside 2019 Description / Buy
7 Confessions on the 7:45 2020 Description / Buy
8 Last Girl Ghosted 2021 Description / Buy
9 Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six 2022 Description / Buy
10 Christmas Presents 2023 Description / Buy
11 The New Couple in 5B 2024 Description / Buy
12 Close Your Eyes and Count to 10 2025 Description / Buy

Order of Lisa Unger Short Stories/Novellas

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1 The Doll's House: A Short Story (Short Story) 2024 Description / Buy

Order of Dark Corners Series

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1 Hannah-Beast (Short Story) ( By: Jennifer McMahon) 2018 Description / Buy
2 The Sleep Tight Motel (Short Story) 2018 Description / Buy
3 There's a Giant Trapdoor Spider Under Your Bed (Short Story) ( By: Edgar Cantero) 2018 Description / Buy
4 Miao Dao ( By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2018 Description / Buy
5 The Tangled Woods (Short Story) ( By: Emily Raboteau) 2018 Description / Buy
6 The Remedy (Short Story) ( By: Adam Haslett) 2018 Description / Buy
7 Oak Avenue (Short Story) ( By: Brandi Reeds) 2018 Description / Buy
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Order of Hush Collection Series

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1 Treasure ( By: Oyinkan Braithwaite) 2020 Description / Buy
2 Snowflakes (Short Story) ( By: Ruth Ware) 2020 Description / Buy
3 Buried (Short Story) ( By: Jeffery Deaver) 2020 Description / Buy
4 Let Her Be (Short Story) 2020 Description / Buy
5 The Gift (Short Story) ( By: Alison Gaylin) 2020 Description / Buy
6 Slow Burner (Short Story) ( By: Laura Lippman) 2020 Description / Buy
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Order of We Could Be Heroes Series

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1 Pigeon Tony's Last Stand (Short Story) ( By: Lisa Scottoline) 2023 Description / Buy
2 Unknown Caller (Short Story) 2023 Description / Buy
3 Trouble (Short Story) ( By: Janelle Brown) 2023 Description / Buy
4 These Cold Strangers (Short Story) ( By: J.T. Ellison) 2023 Description / Buy
5 Kill Night (Short Story) ( By: Victor Methos) 2023 Description / Buy
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Order of Bibliomysteries Series

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1 The Book of Virtue ( By: Ken Bruen) 2012 Description / Buy
2 Pronghorns of the Third Reich (Short Story) ( By: C.J. Box) 2012 Description / Buy
3 The Book Thing ( By: Laura Lippman) 2012 Description / Buy
4 The Book Case ( By: Nelson DeMille) 2012 Description / Buy
5 An Acceptable Sacrifice ( By: Jeffery Deaver) 2012 Description / Buy
6 Death Leaves a Bookmark (Short Story) ( By: William Link) 2012 Description / Buy
7 The Final Testament (Short Story) ( By: Peter Blauner) 2013 Description / Buy
8 Rides a Stranger (Short Story) ( By: David Bell) 2013 Description / Buy
9 The Long Sonata of the Dead (Short Story) ( By: Andrew Taylor) 2013 Description / Buy
10 The Book of Ghosts (Short Story) ( By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2013 Description / Buy
11 The Compendium of Srem (Short Story) ( By: F. Paul Wilson) 2014 Description / Buy
12 What's in a Name? (Short Story) ( By: Thomas H. Cook) 2014 Description / Buy
13 Remaindered (Short Story) ( By: Peter Lovesey) 2014 Description / Buy
14 The Sequel (Short Story) ( By: R.L. Stine) 2014 Description / Buy
15 The Gospel of Sheba (Short Story) ( By: Lyndsay Faye) 2014 Description / Buy
16 Book Club (Short Story) ( By: Loren D. Estleman) 2014 Description / Buy
17 The Nature of My Inheritance (Short Story) ( By: Bradford Morrow) 2014 Description / Buy
18 It's in the Book (Short Story) ( By: Max Allan Collins, Mickey Spillane) 2014 Description / Buy
19 The Scroll (Short Story) ( By: Anne Perry) 2014 Description / Buy
20 The Book of the Lion (Short Story) ( By: Thomas Perry) 2015 Description / Buy
21 The Little Men (Short Story) ( By: Megan Abbott) 2015 Description / Buy
22 Condor in the Stacks (Short Story) ( By: James Grady) 2015 Description / Buy
23 Mystery, Inc. (Short Story) ( By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2015 Description / Buy
24 Every Seven Years (Short Story) ( By: Denise Mina) 2015 Description / Buy
25 From the Queen (Short Story) ( By: Carolyn Hart) 2015 Description / Buy
26 From the Queen (Short Story) ( By: Carolyn Hart) 2015 Description / Buy
27 The Travelling Companion ( By: Ian Rankin) 2016 Description / Buy
28 Citadel (Short Story) ( By: Stephen Hunter) 2016 Description / Buy
29 Reconciliation Day (Short Story) ( By: Christopher Fowler) 2016 Description / Buy
30 Dead Dames Don't Sing (Short Story) ( By: John Harvey) 2016 Description / Buy
31 The Haze (Short Story) ( By: James W. Hall) 2016 Description / Buy
32 Hoodoo Harry (Short Story) ( By: Joe R. Lansdale) 2017 Description / Buy
33 The Pretty Little Box (Short Story) ( By: Charles Todd) 2018 Description / Buy
34 Seven Years (Short Story) ( By: Peter Robinson) 2018 Description / Buy
35 The Hemingway Valise ( By: Robert Olen Butler) 2018 Description / Buy
36 The Last Honest Horse Thief ( By: Michael Koryta) 2018 Description / Buy
37 The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository ( By: John Connolly) 2018 Description / Buy
38 The Girl Who Did Say No (Short Story) ( By: David Handler) 2020 Description / Buy
39 The Traitor (Short Story) ( By: Martin Edwards) 2022 Description / Buy
40 The Dark Door 2022 Description / Buy
41 The Honeymoon Trap (Short Story) ( By: Peter Swanson) 2022 Description / Buy

Chronological Order of Bibliomysteries Series

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1 The Book of Virtue ( By: Ken Bruen) 2012 Description / Buy
2 The Scroll (Short Story) ( By: Anne Perry) 2014 Description / Buy
3 Pronghorns of the Third Reich (Short Story) ( By: C.J. Box) 2012 Description / Buy
4 An Acceptable Sacrifice ( By: Jeffery Deaver) 2012 Description / Buy
5 Death Leaves a Bookmark (Short Story) ( By: William Link) 2012 Description / Buy
6 Seven Years (Short Story) ( By: Peter Robinson) 2018 Description / Buy
7 The Book Thing ( By: Laura Lippman) 2012 Description / Buy
8 The Book of Ghosts (Short Story) ( By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2013 Description / Buy
9 Book Club (Short Story) ( By: Loren D. Estleman) 2014 Description / Buy
10 The Long Sonata of the Dead (Short Story) ( By: Andrew Taylor) 2013 Description / Buy
11 The Final Testament (Short Story) ( By: Peter Blauner) 2013 Description / Buy
12 Rides a Stranger (Short Story) ( By: David Bell) 2013 Description / Buy
13 What's in a Name? (Short Story) ( By: Thomas H. Cook) 2014 Description / Buy
14 It's in the Book (Short Story) ( By: Max Allan Collins, Mickey Spillane) 2014 Description / Buy
15 The Nature of My Inheritance (Short Story) ( By: Bradford Morrow) 2014 Description / Buy
16 Remaindered (Short Story) ( By: Peter Lovesey) 2014 Description / Buy
17 The Compendium of Srem (Short Story) ( By: F. Paul Wilson) 2014 Description / Buy
18 The Gospel of Sheba (Short Story) ( By: Lyndsay Faye) 2014 Description / Buy
19 The Sequel (Short Story) ( By: R.L. Stine) 2014 Description / Buy
20 The Book of the Lion (Short Story) ( By: Thomas Perry) 2015 Description / Buy
21 The Little Men (Short Story) ( By: Megan Abbott) 2015 Description / Buy
22 From the Queen (Short Story) ( By: Carolyn Hart) 2015 Description / Buy
23 Every Seven Years (Short Story) ( By: Denise Mina) 2015 Description / Buy
24 Citadel (Short Story) ( By: Stephen Hunter) 2016 Description / Buy
25 Condor in the Stacks (Short Story) ( By: James Grady) 2015 Description / Buy
26 Mystery, Inc. (Short Story) ( By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2015 Description / Buy
27 The Travelling Companion ( By: Ian Rankin) 2016 Description / Buy
28 The Haze (Short Story) ( By: James W. Hall) 2016 Description / Buy
29 Dead Dames Don't Sing (Short Story) ( By: John Harvey) 2016 Description / Buy
30 Reconciliation Day (Short Story) ( By: Christopher Fowler) 2016 Description / Buy
31 Hoodoo Harry (Short Story) ( By: Joe R. Lansdale) 2017 Description / Buy
32 The Pretty Little Box (Short Story) ( By: Charles Todd) 2018 Description / Buy
33 The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository ( By: John Connolly) 2018 Description / Buy
34 The Hemingway Valise ( By: Robert Olen Butler) 2018 Description / Buy
35 The Last Honest Horse Thief ( By: Michael Koryta) 2018 Description / Buy
36 The Book Case ( By: Nelson DeMille) 2012 Description / Buy
37 From the Queen (Short Story) ( By: Carolyn Hart) 2015 Description / Buy
38 The Girl Who Did Say No (Short Story) ( By: David Handler) 2020 Description / Buy
39 The Traitor (Short Story) ( By: Martin Edwards) 2022 Description / Buy
40 The Dark Door 2022 Description / Buy
41 The Honeymoon Trap (Short Story) ( By: Peter Swanson) 2022 Description / Buy
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Lisa Unger Anthologies

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1 Florida Heat Wave 2010 Description / Buy
2 Inherit the Dead 2013 Description / Buy
3 Tampa Bay Noir 2020 Description / Buy
4 When a Stranger Comes to Town 2021 Description / Buy
5 The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 2023 Description / Buy
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Immediately after completing her high school education, Lisa moved to New York City where she received her honors from the New School of Research. Unger currently lives with her daughter and husband in Florida. Apart from penning down novels, Lisa Unger has also managed to create several essays, which have been featured in the Wall-Street Journal, New York Times, Travel and Leisure Magazine and the NRP.

When it comes to Lisa’s writing style, it is exceedingly hard to compare it to any of her contemporaries. It is not only innovative but also unique and experimental at times. She amalgamates her extensive understanding of the human psyche with her understanding of fear and trauma to develop novels which have ensured that she has earned her reputation as the best practitioners of a psychological thriller. Unlike a majority of the bestselling authors who tend to stick to a given formula, Lisa Unger’s status loyal fan base and bestseller status have pushed her to experiment widely with her style of writing.

Lisa Unger Awards

In the year 2005, In the Blood was selected for an Indie Next, Best Book of the Month by Amazon and Best Novel by the Silver Falchion Award. Furthermore, it was also selected as a Goodread’s Best Mystery and Thriller. Crazy Love, another masterpiece from the author, was also named by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, as one of 2015’s Best Books.

Another novel, Heart Broken was selected by the Suspense Magazine, Publishers Weekly Editors and the New York Daily News as the Best New Book in 2012. Fragile was selected Good Morning America as one of the best summer reads while Beautiful Lies was selected as the International Book of the Month by Doubleday book club.

Lisa Unger Books Into TV/Movies

While a ton of Lisa Unger’s books have been optioned by studios in the past, most of those options simply expired without anything coming down the pipeline. This happens with book adaptations all the time. The closest that we got was probably Blackout which had director Tim Chick attached, but alas that one never quite made it over the hump.

However, Black Out was recently optioned by a TV studio and the people behind it have some serious resumes filled with success. Gary Felder (Kiss The Girls), Adam Targum (The Dead Zone), and Chris Silber (NCIS: New Orleans) are behind the project so this is one that they are going to try their best to get out there. Lisa Unger said that Gary has had the option for a number of years and continued to renew it, so there is definitely interest. This book would fit perfectly in today’s era of prestige television with more networks than ever looking to fill content hours.

Lisa Unger Best Books

Beautiful Lies is one of the best performing books by Lisa Unger. Unlike a majority of the inhabitants of NYC, Ridley Jones cannot simply think of anything else that she can do with her life. She appears to be completely content. She was raised in a home with both parents, lovers her exceedingly small apartment and she does what she loves, writing freelance articles for different magazines such as the Vanity Fair. However, her life is not perfect. Ridley has a brother who is struggling with drugs and many of the times; she cannot find him easily. However, irrespective of everything, Ridley Jones is extremely happy.

On one fine morning, everything begins to change as she goes on to meet one of her former boyfriends. Ridley sees a toddler walking towards the incoming traffic. Without hesitating, she dives and saves the little boy’s life. As luck would have it, a proffesional photographer was nearby hence caught the whole incidence of the camera. On the following day, Ridley’s photo was all over the newspaper throughout the country. Later on, she receives a note asking, ‘Are you My Child?’, together with the picture of a woman and man who look exactly like Ridley.

A headline is also included explaining that the woman in the photo was found dead while the little girl in the picture was missing. Upon receiving the note, Ridley begins to wonder why would her family keep such a big secret from her. As she begins to find answers, Ridley becomes afraid of what she may find. Furthermore, also someone seems to be stopping her from finding the truth. With that said, this is an exceedingly suspenseful tale, which will keep you guessing to the very end.

Fragile is also another great read by the author that has also performed extremely well. This is an exceedingly slow, well-developed and character driven tale that to some extent feels like a psychological analysis of a small town dynamics and family relationship with a plot that is thrown in for good measure. The storyline is exceedingly intriguing, complex in nature and multi-layered.

This book tells the story of a missing girl who is separated from her family for many years. This book is filled with a dizzying array of characters. Charlene leaves her home, and everyone in the city believes that she is a runaway. All in all, the characters in this book have been well developed; the plot is extremely brilliant with more than enough twists which will keep you turning the pages.

The Red Hunter: Like many of Unger’s books, this is a dark thriller filled with twists and turns. The subject matter is very adult and not for someone look for a light read. Two women on very different paths, one a victim of a horrifying assault and the other a survivor of murdered parents, end up on very similar paths in their quest to confront the monsters from their past. Unger asks the question, what is the difference between justice and revenge? and this book will have you questioning the answer for a long time afterwards.

When Does The Next Lisa Unger book come out?

The next book by Lisa Unger is Close Your Eyes and Count to 10 and will be released on February, 25th 2025.

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2 thoughts on “Lisa Unger”

  1. I have bee reading anything Lisa Unger.I just can’t get enough.I.enjoy it so much.Read every day .Just can’t stop.

  2. I first heard of Lisa Unger from the Hollows series and was surprised to see just how many books she has written. The best word I can use to describe the Hollows series is “unsettling”. This is not a kind world and the suspense is thick at times. After finish the three that are out there, I decided to check in on some other Lisa Unger books.

    I’ve started with the Lydia Strong series and I am quite impressed. This woman knows how to write thrillers and you really get a sense that there is a lot more going on beyond what you read. I like what I’ve seen so far and I’ll continue to work through her catalog.

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