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Everyone Here Is Lying is a 2023 psychological thriller novel by Shari Lapena. Its central incident is the disappearance of a young girl from a suburban neighborhood after her father turns her away in anger, prompting suspicion and exposing conflicting accounts among the people who live nearby. The...
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Recent Lapena with strong commercial traction and better reader response, though still seen as formulaic domestic suspense.
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Not a Happy Family is a 2021 domestic thriller by Shari Lapena. Fred and Sheila Merton, a wealthy couple living in upstate New York, are murdered after a contentious Easter dinner with their three adult children. Dan, Catherine and Jenna each have a possible motive and stand to inherit from their pa...
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Accessible family-murder mystery with good pace, though consensus remains mid-range due to thin suspects and conventional twists.
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Shari Lapena's An Unwanted Guest is a 2018 psychological thriller set at an isolated inn in New York's Catskill Mountains. A group of visitors becomes cut off by a snowstorm, and the situation turns into a locked-room mystery when guests begin dying and the remaining characters must determine whom t...
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Readable locked-room setup with solid reader appeal, though critics often find characterization shallow and ending routine.
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Someone We Know is a 2019 suburban thriller novel by Shari Lapena. The story begins when a teenager secretly enters homes in a neighborhood and reads the private information he finds there, before the murder of a local woman turns those invasions into a wider mystery. The plot uses a restricted comm...
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Popular suburban suspense with fast pacing, but aggregate reception is modest and notes contrivance.
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A Stranger in the House is a 2017 psychological thriller by Canadian author Shari Lapena. Karen Krupp wakes in a hospital after a car crash with no memory of what happened, while police investigate a dead man found near her home. The story follows the suspicions surrounding Karen, her husband Tom, a...
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Commercially successful domestic thriller, but consensus is middling due to familiar amnesia plot and thin twists.
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The End of Her is a psychological thriller by Shari Lapena, published in 2021. Its plot begins when a woman’s remarriage is disrupted by a stranger who claims that her new husband was responsible for the death of his first wife. The novel focuses on suspicion, marriage, hidden history, and the uncer...
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Recognizable Lapena brand, but one of her more mixed entries, criticized for repetition and implausible plotting.
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