Sarah Pekkanen Books in Order (Updated 2026-02-06)

Sarah Pekkanen’s fiction divides into two main reading experiences: her solo contemporary novels (earlier career) and her psychological suspense (later, including her co-written books with Greer Hendricks). There’s no long-running series continuity, so you won’t get “lost” if you jump around, but reading in order helps you follow how her focus and pacing shift over time.

Below is a clean, complete list, with every title getting its own original one-line guide.

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If you just want a smart starting point

• Try her suspense voice (solo): Gone Tonight
• Try her suspense voice (co-written): The Wife Between Us
• Try her contemporary voice (solo): The Opposite of Me
• Want the newest available right now: The Locked Ward

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Solo novels in publication order

1. The Opposite of Me (2010): A woman who’s always been “the responsible one” hits a personal tipping point and starts rewriting the rules of her life.
2. Skipping a Beat (2011): A marriage is shaken awake by crisis, forcing two people to decide what they truly mean to each other.
3. These Girls (2012): A teenage friendship triangle tightens into something dangerous when loyalty becomes a weapon.
4. The Best of Us (2013): A friendship between women is tested by envy, secrets, and the quiet competition people pretend isn’t there.
5. Catching Air (2014): A couple’s glossy “perfect life” starts to buckle when one choice exposes what they’ve been hiding from each other.
6. Things You Won’t Say (2015): A long-buried family story resurfaces, and the cost of silence becomes impossible to ignore.
7. The Perfect Neighbors (2016): Two families living side by side discover how quickly small resentments can turn into real harm.
8. The Ever After (2018): A woman steps into a marriage’s aftermath and realizes the truth about love can arrive very late.

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Co-written suspense novels with Greer Hendricks (read in order)

These are standalones, but reading in release order keeps the “twist language” fresh and avoids tonal whiplash.

1. The Wife Between Us (2018): A seemingly familiar love triangle turns inside out as obsession and misdirection sharpen into something darker.
2. An Anonymous Girl (2019): A young woman enters a psychologist’s study and finds herself trapped in a game she doesn’t understand.
3. You Are Not Alone (2020): A lonely woman is welcomed into a glamorous friend group, then learns belonging can be a kind of bait.
4. The Golden Couple (2022): A therapist takes on a high-profile couple and discovers the most dangerous part of a marriage is what both people agree to hide.

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Recent solo suspense novels (newer era, read in order)

1. Gone Tonight (2023): A daughter searches for her missing mother and uncovers a past built on careful reinvention.
2. House of Glass (2024): A child at the center of a messy situation forces an investigation where every adult’s story sounds “almost” true.
3. The Locked Ward (2025): A tightly controlled environment becomes a pressure cooker, and the lines between patient, caretaker, and threat start to blur.

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Upcoming novel

• The Women in White (announced for 2026): A new suspense story positioned as her next major release, built around secrets that present as safety, until they don’t.

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Audio originals and short e-stories

Some lists include additional digital-only pieces (such as short e-stories) and at least one audio-first title. These are optional extras, not required for understanding any novel. If you want them, tell me whether you’d like every short work included or novels only, and I’ll format it cleanly either way.

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A simple, spoiler-safe way to read her

Option 1: Follow her career shift

1. Start at The Opposite of Me and read forward through The Ever After
2. Then move into suspense: Gone Tonight → House of Glass → The Locked Ward

Option 2: Start with suspense and circle back

1. The Wife Between Us → An Anonymous Girl → You Are Not Alone → The Golden Couple
2. Then pick up her solo suspense run afterward

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Bottom line

If you want “books in order,” the cleanest approach is: solo novels in publication order, then the Hendricks co-written books in publication order, then her recent solo suspense. If you only want one starting book, choose based on mood: contemporary (The Opposite of Me) or suspense (Gone Tonight / The Wife Between Us).