Books by Sara Shepard and Complete Book Reviews
Sara Shepard, Author . Free Press $24 (323p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9736-0
In her tightly constructed and captivating first adult novel, bestselling YA author Shepard (the Pretty Little Liars
series) explores a family’s biological and emotional interconnectedness—for better or for worse. When 15-year-old...
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Sara Shepard. Freeform, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4847-4227-3
Shepard (the Pretty Little Liars series) dishes up another exciting whodunit, this time focusing on a group of teens who are tied together by the killing of high school student Helena Kelly and a website for amateur sleuths. Seneca, 19, became...
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Sara Shepard. HarperTeen, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-207469-0\t
After several dissimilar girls discover they have suffered at the hands of rich, popular bully Nolan, they drug him at his own party and scrawl mean messages on his face, which they share online. When Nolan is discovered dead the next day, the girls
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Sara Shepard. Harper, $14.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-208006-6
YA author Shepard (Pretty Little Liars) aims for adult readers with this expertly rendered novel of family dysfunction set in moneyed Main Line Philadelphia. Recently widowed Sylvie Bates-McAllister runs the board of directors at Swithin School, a...
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Sara Shepard, Author HarperCollins Publishers $16.99 (286p) ISBN 978-0-06-088730-8
After the queen bee of their clique mysteriously disappears during a slumber party on the last day of seventh grade, the remaining four girls drift apart. Now, three years later, the Rosewood, Pa., former pals are practically strangers, but still...
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Sara Shepard, HarperTeen, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-186970-9
Those who get past the improbable premise of Shepard's (the Pretty Little Liars books) series debut will find a fun and fast-moving mystery. Foster kid Emma never knew she had an identical twin until she sees an online video of a girl named Sutton...
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Sara Shepard, Author . HarperTempest $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-088732-2
After the queen bee of their clique mysteriously disappears during a slumber party on the last day of seventh grade, the remaining four girls drift apart. Now, three years later, the Rosewood, Pa., former pals are practically strangers, but still...
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Sara Shepard and Lilia Buckingham. Delacorte, $17.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-12153-5
An up-and-coming social media influencer from Minneapolis is quickly tangled in a complicated L.A. love triangle in this glamorous thriller by Shepard (Pretty Little Liars) and actor Buckingham. Delilah Rollins, 16, is known online as “Puppy Girl,”...
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Jennifer L. Armentrout et al. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-328-75987-0
“This might be a love story, so I want to tell it the right way,” begins Nina LaCour’s entry in an anthology celebrating serendipitous run-ins that feel bigger than coincidence, in this case a customer-service-related flirtation between two teenage...
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Sara Shepard. Atria, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-1-5011-6277-0
At the start of this provocative, if at times predictable, psychological thriller from bestseller Shepard (Everything We Ever Wanted), Burbank, Calif., native Eliza Fontaine wakes up in the hospital. Days before, she was fished from the bottom of a...
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Sara Shepard. Dutton, $16 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4290-4
The murder of cardiac surgeon Greg Strasser in the home he shared with his fund-raiser wife, Kit Manning-Strasser, and his two stepdaughters propels this exceptional suspense novel from Shepard (The Elizas). Days earlier, a massive hack of the email
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Sara Shepard. Dutton, $17 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4678-0
In this propulsively plotted if ultimately muddled page-turner from bestseller Shepard (Reputation), three wildly different women, all newcomers to upscale Raisin Beach, Calif., become unlikely sisters in sleuthing after their children’s swanky...
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Sara Shepard. Union Square, $18.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4549-4577-2
Casey Rhodes’s life seems to be going well: despite only being 17, she’s already a sophomore student at NYU, gets along with her roommate Pippa, and recently started dating rich, charming Marcus. When Marcus sweeps her off her feet to a glitzy party
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Sara Shepard. Putnam, $14.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-61677-2
As outlined in an author’s note, Shepard (the Pretty Little Liars series) draws from her own childhood experience with anxiety for this diary-style illustrated novel. Rising fifth grader Penny is looking forward to her best friend Violet’s return...
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Sara Shepard. Dutton, $18 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-18696-1
An exhausted new mother joins a sinister commune in the disappointing latest from Shepard (the Pretty Little Liars series). Ever since she gave birth to her son, Jacob, Lenna has been struggling with her lack of friends and feeling unsupported...
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Miles Joris-Peyrafitte and Sara Shepard. Blackstone, $26.99 (340p) ISBN 979-8-212-18922-4
A former cult member confronts her past when an old acquaintance shows up on her doorstep in this patchy collaboration between filmmaker Joris-Peyrafitte and YA author Shepard (the Pretty Little Liars series). Rebecca Williams lives a quiet life in...
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