ABOUT LISA

Lisa Unger Author Photo

The queen of thrillers you can also discuss with your book club.

Lisa Unger is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of twenty-three novels, including her upcoming release SERVED HIM RIGHT (March, 2026). With books published in thirty-three languages and millions of copies sold worldwide, she is regarded as a master of suspense.

Unger’s critically acclaimed novels have been featured on “Best Book” lists from the Today Show, Good Morning America, Entertainment Weekly, People, Amazon, Goodreads, L.A. Times, The Boston Globe, Sun Sentinel, Tampa Bay Times and many others. She has been nominated for, or won, numerous awards including the Strand Critics, Audie, Hammett, Macavity, ITW Thriller, and Goodreads Choice. In 2019, she received two Edgar Award nominations in the same year, an honor held by only a few authors including Agatha Christie. Her short fiction has been anthologized in The Best American Mystery and Suspense, and her non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Daily Telegraph, NPR, and Travel+Leisure. Lisa is the current co-President of the International Thriller Writers organization. She lives on the west coast of Florida with her family.

Features

Audible
In Lisa Unger's latest thriller, hide-and-seek is anything but child's play

New York Magazine
What Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar Can’t Live Without

The New School
100 New School Alumni. Celebrating 100 years of bold, change-making leaders in culture, commerce, and civic life

The Strand
Unique, inventive, and often experimental, Lisa Unger's writing is impossible to categorize. She combines her extensive knowledge of the human psyche with an understanding of trauma and fear to create novels that have earned her a reputation as one of the most skilled practitioners of the psychological thriller around today.


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Media Resources

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Interviews

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Articles and Essays

New York Times
The Baby and I, and Doodle Pads by Lisa Unger

Wall Street Journal
A Comfort Junkie's Resistance to Adventure Travel by Lisa Unger

NPR
Three Books by Lisa Unger

Daily Telegraph
There is something wrong with this place: Lisa Unger on the fear we can't get past by Lisa Unger

Travel+Leisure
In the Key of Life by Lisa Unger

Good Housekeeping
How Writing Thrillers Helps Me Deal With Darkness by Lisa Unger

Publishers Weekly
Lisa Unger Shares Her Writing Lessons by Lisa Unger

Writer's Digest
Productive Procrastination for Writers by Lisa Unger

The Week
Lisa Unger's 6 favorite books you won't want to put down by Lisa Unger

BookPage
Dig two graves: The five best vigilantes in fiction by Lisa Unger

Flamingo Magazine
Heart of Swampness by Lisa Unger

CrimeReads
Why Can't I Go on Vacation Like a Normal Person? by Lisa Unger