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Lisa Unger Biography & Facts
Lisa Unger (née Miscione; born April 26, 1970) is an American author of contemporary fiction, primarily psychological thrillers. Biography Miscione was born in New Haven, Connecticut but grew up in the Netherlands, England and New Jersey. She spent her teens in the Long Valley section of Washington Township, Morris County, New Jersey. Miscione moved to New York City after high school, where she graduated from the New School for Social Research and spent a decade working in publishing in New York. During a vacation in Florida, she met her future husband Jeff Unger, who was vacationing from Detroit. After marrying Unger, she resigned her job, moved to Florida and gave herself a year to sell her first novel. Fairly quickly, she found an agent and sold a deal to produce four crime novels. Her first four books were published in her maiden name of Lisa Miscione. In 2002, she published Angel Fire, the first book featuring Lydia Strong. The book received mixed reviews. Publishers Weekly described it as "gripping and terrifying right through the carnage of its final scene" and commended the novel's depictions of grisly scenes. Rex Klett, writing for Library Journal, praised the Unger's writing style and the book's suspense. However, Kirkus Reviews called it "predictable" and "flatly written", criticizing Lydia's characterization. In June 2006, Unger published Beautiful Lies, her first novel under her married name, through Crown Publishing Group. It became a New York Times Best Seller the week it was released. Awards Beautiful Lies was selected as a Doubleday Book Club International Book of the Month. It was also chosen in 21st place in the top 50 "Best Books of 2006" by the editors of Amazon.com, a BookSense pick and a finalist in the International Thriller Writers Organization "Best Novel" Award in 2007. In the Blood won the 2015 Silver Falchion Award for Best Novel (Crime Thriller) and was a Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Mystery & Thriller 2014. Novels Writing as Lisa Miscione. Re-released in 2011 by Crown Publishing Group: Angel Fire (2002) – Lydia Strong #1 The Darkness Gathers (2003) – Lydia Strong #2 Twice (2004) – Lydia Strong #3 Smoke (2005) – Lydia Strong #4 As Lisa Unger. Beautiful Lies (2006) – Ridley Jones #1 Sliver of Truth (2007) – Ridley Jones #2 Black Out (2008) – Standalone Die for You (2009) – Standalone Fragile (2010) – Jones Cooper #1 (The Hollows book 1) Darkness, My Old Friend (2011) – Jones Cooper #2 (The Hollows book 2) Heartbroken (2012) – Standalone In the Blood (2014) – Standalone (The Hollows book 3) Crazy Love You (February 2015) – Standalone (The Hollows book 4) Ink and Bone (June 2016) – Jones Cooper #3 (The Hollows book 5) The Red Hunter (April 2017) – Standalone Under My Skin (Oct. 2018) – Standalone The Stranger Inside (Sep 2019) - Standalone Confessions on the 7:45 (Sept. 2020) – Standalone All My Darkest Impulses (May 2021) – House of Crows #1 Fog Descending (May 2021) – House of Crows #2 Circling the Drain (May 2021) – House of Crows #3 Love the Way You Lie (May 2021) – House of Crows #4 Last Girl Ghosted (Oct. 2021) – Standalone Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six (Nov. 2022) - Standalone Novellas The Whispering Hollows (2016) (The Hollows series) References External links Lisa Unger's website Lisa Unger on a Comfort Junkie’s Resistance to Adventure Travel (The Wall Street Journal March 2015) Lisa Unger's Official Wattpad Profile Interview with Publishers Weekly Do Some Damage Interview Interview with ITW's The Big Thrill Interview with Booklist Interview with Suicide Girls. Discover the Lisa Unger popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Lisa Unger books.
Best Seller Lisa Unger Books of 2024
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Angel Fire
Lisa UngerThe childhood murder of Lydia Strong’s mother has turned her into a woman obsessed with bringing brutal killers to justice. The reclusive, bestselling truecrime writer and investig...
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Eye of the Beholder
Emma BamfordInspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller Vertigo, the author of the “subtle and ominous” (Lee Child) debut Deep Water returns with a wholly original and sinister novel about...
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Heartbroken
Lisa UngerA shattering thriller about three women, strangers, on a heartwrenching collision course none of them could have seen coming.Long after anyone expected Kate to do anything with her...
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No Rest for the Dead
David BaldacciIn this New York Times bestseller, twentysix renowned thriller authors team up to create a firstrate serial novela collaboration that combines the skills of America’s greatest stor...
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Blutroter Schnee
Sharon Sala, Emma Luxx & Rainer NoldenCaitlin Doyle Bennett lebt im Luxus. Die Schriftstellerin ist schön, reich und wird von vielen bewundert. Doch ihr Leben ändert sich schlagartig, als sie plötzlich blutverschmierte...
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My Darling Girl
Jennifer McMahonFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Children on the Hill, a psychological thriller “that delivers both chilling scares and genuine emotion” (Chandler Baker, New York ...
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The House of Now and Then
Jo DixonYou should leave the past in the past ... or should you? A vividly told, jawdroppingly twisty and wholly engaging story about the consequences of discovering the truth. For readers...
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The Red Hunter
Lisa UngerWhat is the difference between justice and revenge? In this “heartstopping thriller” (Publishers Weekly) with “plenty of action” (Kirkus Reviews) by New York Times bestselling auth...
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Smoke Screen
Sandra BrownFrom the #1 New York Times bestsellng author of Seeing Red comes a "scorching...actionfilled" (Publishers Weekly) tale of corruption and betrayal, revenge, and reversal.When newswo...
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The Darkness Gathers
Lisa UngerFresh from a tour promoting her last case, reclusive true crime writer Lydia Strong receives an anonymous cry for help, begging her to find and protect Tatiana Quinn, "and all the ...
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Sliver of Truth
Lisa UngerThe highly anticipated followup to the New York Times bestseller Beautiful Lies. Charged with relentless intensity and kinetic action, and playing out with unnerving suspense on t...
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Crazy Love You
Lisa UngerIn the New York Times bestselling Jones Cooper series by Lisa Unger, falling in love should be a dream but sometimes it’s a living nightmare in this “haunting, compulsive tale that...
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Fragile
Lisa UngerA thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger about the hunt for a missing girl and one community’s intricate yet fragile bonds. “[A] nailbiting nuanced whodu...
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Gravity
Tess GerritsenIn this propulsive, “nonstop read” (USA TODAY) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Shape of Night, a NASA doctor is in a deadly race against time to destroy a lethal ...
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When a Stranger Comes to Town
Michael KorytaANTHONY AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST ANTHOLOGYIncluding NYT bestselling author Michael Connelly’s story “Avalon,” soon to be adapted for television by David E. Kelley. "The v...
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The Bullet
Mary Louise KellyFrom former NPR correspondent and acclaimed author of Anonymous Sources Mary Louise Kelly comes an “actionpacked pageturner” (Publishers Weekly) about fear, family secrets, and one...
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Woman, Missing
Sherryl ClarkGutsy new P.I. Lou Alcott takes charge in this brilliantly crafted thriller. Twisty, gritty and unputdownable, in this story the underdog is fighting back. Perfect for readers of S...
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Das siebte Opfer
Mary Burton & Karin WillEin Mörder auf der Jagd nach seinem letzten Opfer.Sieben Jahre ist es her, seit ein gefährlicher Serienmörder Seattle terrorisierte. Seine Opfer waren junge, hübsche Frauen. Ihre L...
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Smoke
Lisa UngerBook Four in the Lydia Strong SeriesIn the final installment of her Lydia Strong series, bestselling author Lisa Unger, writing as Lisa Miscione, brings us her most shocking a...
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Darkness, My Old Friend
Lisa UngerThe New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Lies and Fragile returns to The Hollows, delivering a thriller that explores matters of faith, memory, and sacrifice. After ...
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Dunkelziffer
Andrea Kane & Barbara RitterbachZwischen Gefahr und Ekstase ...Julia Talbot macht sich Sorgen um einen ihrer Schüler: Brian Stratford scheint unter großem Druck zu stehen. Die engagierte Lehrerin führt dies auf F...
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A Shadow at the Door
Jo DixonFrom the bestselling author of The House of Now and Then comes a vividly portrayed story that reveals the darkness of greed and desire where people will stop at nothing to get what...
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Greenwich Park
Katherine FaulknerThis “gloriously tangled game of cat and mouse” (Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author) explores the anxieties of impending motherhood, unreliable friendship, and the hig...
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In the Blood
Lisa UngerThe New York Times bestselling author and International Thriller Writers “Best Novel” finalist Lisa Unger returns to the dark psychological suspense that made Beautiful Lies a best...
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Remember Me This Way
Sabine DurrantA gripping psychological thriller of secrets and obsession that will keep readers flipping pages to the stunning conclusion from the author whose suspenseful work has been describe...
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Ricochet
Sandra BrownThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red presents a spinetingling story of murder and betrayal in high society Savannah, where a homicide detective finds his careeran...
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Hello, Darkness
Sandra BrownFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red comes Hello, Darkness, a brilliant, fastpaced tale about a woman haunted by her past and caught in a nightmare that thre...
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Chill Factor
Sandra BrownFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red comes a suspense novel about a woman trapped in a remote cabin with a man who may be a serial killer.Five women are miss...
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She Lies Close
Sharon DoeringA compulsive debut thriller about motherhood, obsession and how far we’d go to protect the ones we love. "Every curve, every twist takes you further down the rabbit hole. Shar...
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The Hidden Things
Jamie MasonInspired by the reallife unsolved theft of a 17thcentury painting, this is a “smart and hugely entertainingly thriller, with so many sharp twists and hairpin turns that you’ll need...
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Last Girl Ghosted
Lisa Unger"A fivealarm fire of a situation…the surprises keep coming." The New York Times Secrets, obsession and vengeance converge in this riveting thriller about an online dating mat...
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Twice
Lisa UngerBook Three in Lisa Unger's Lydia Strong series Acclaimed artist Julian Ross has just been found standing over her husband’s bloody corpse in their New York City apartment. Ju...
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Black Out
Lisa UngerWhen my mother named me Ophelia, she thought she was being literary. She didn’t realize she was being tragic.On the surface, Annie Powers’s life in a wealthy Floridian suburb is ha...
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Wie ein stummer Schrei
Sharon Sala, Emma Luxx & Ralph SanderErmittler Trey Bonney steht vor einem Rätsel: Ein Kinderskelett wurde entdeckt eingemauert in die Wand eines alten Hauses. Doch wer ist das Kind, das siebzehn Jahre lang keiner ve...
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Gefahrenzone
Andrea Kane & Barbara FörstEine junge Frau gerät in einen Strudel aus Ehrgeiz, Verlangen und gefährlichen Geheimnissen ... Der Parfümmagnat Carson Brooks wird von einem Unbekannten angeschossen. Die Verletz...
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Angsttage
Andrea Kane & Karin MeddekisDu sollst für meine Morde büßen. Und dann werde ich dein Leben nehmen ... Eigentlich hatte Sally Montgomery einen romantischen Wochenendtrip geplant. Doch die Reise verwandelt sic...
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White Hot
Sandra BrownFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author and “masterful storyteller” (USA TODAY) Sandra Browna sexy, sultry, familybased thriller set in a small southern town.When her younger bro...
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Smash Cut
Sandra BrownFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red comes this thrilling novel full of jarring, cinematic twists and breathless suspense that will have you on the edge of your ...
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Beautiful Lies
Lisa UngerIf Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the beautiful lie she used to call her life. She wou...
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Play Dirty
Sandra BrownThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red delivers a gripping story of obsession and its deadly consequenceswhere nobody’s playing by the rules.After five long years i...
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Those Empty Eyes
Charlie Donlea"Draws readers in from the first heartstopping pages and doesn't let go until the end." – Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author of Local Woman MissingThe bestselling autho...
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Die for You
Lisa UngerIsabel Raine thought she had everything–a successful career, a supportive family, and a happy marriage to the man she loved. Then one ordinary morning, her husband, Marcus, picks u...
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Tough Customer
Sandra BrownThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red “charges her characters and their relationships with electricity” (San Francisco Book Review) in this sizzling, sleepwiththel...
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Rainwater
Sandra BrownA romantic historical novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red about an independent woman who runs a boarding house in Dust Bowl Texas.Ella Baron runs her ...