Shari Lapena

Shari Lapena is a Canadian novelist who worked as a lawyer and an English teacher before turning to fiction. Her first two novels, Things Go Flying (2008) and Happiness Economics (published as Economic Happiness in some markets), were comic literary fiction; the first was shortlisted for the Sunburst Award and the second for the Stephen Leacock Award.

In 2016 she published the domestic thriller The Couple Next Door, an international bestseller, and has since written a string of psychological suspense novels, including A Stranger in the House, An Unwanted Guest, Someone We Know and Everyone Here Is Lying. Her books have been sold in about forty territories. She lives in the Toronto area.