Alice Feeney Books in Order

If you want her most mind-bending psychological thriller: Sometimes I Lie.
If you love tense marriage dramas in remote settings: Rock Paper Scissors → Beautiful Ugly.
If you enjoy locked-room family mysteries: Daisy Darker.
If you like multi-generational women’s stories with big twists: Good Bad Girl.
If you want to start with her most talked-about titles: His & Hers → My Husband’s Wife.

Alice Feeney writes twisty psychological thrillers about memory, marriage, and the secrets people keep from themselves. A former BBC journalist, she has become a New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author whose books are published in dozens of languages.

She grew up in Essex in the late 1970s and 80s, in a house where books were always within reach.

As a child she scribbled tiny homemade stories on folded scraps of paper in the back of her parents’ shop, long before she realised that writing could be a career. In her early twenties she joined the BBC under her journalist name, Alison Feeney-Hart, and over roughly fifteen years she worked as a reporter, news editor, and producer, including on the One O’Clock News. The busy newsroom became a second home and gave her a close-up view of how stories are shaped, edited, and broadcast to millions.

That job was demanding and fast, but she quietly kept a different goal. Around the time she turned thirty she began drafting Sometimes I Lie on her commute and during lunch breaks, later polishing it while taking a Faber Academy writing course, until the book sold at auction and finally allowed her to step away from the BBC to write full-time.

Sometimes I Lie introduced many of the hallmarks of her work: an unreliable narrator, shifting timelines, and a claustrophobic mystery that plays out as much in the mind as on the page. Amber Reynolds, trapped in a coma yet aware of everything around her, narrates a story that keeps circling back on itself as childhood diaries and recent memories begin to clash. The novel became an international bestseller and was optioned for television, helping to put Feeney firmly on the psychological thriller map.

Her second novel, I Know Who You Are, follows actress Aimee Sinclair as her husband disappears and a stolen childhood resurfaces, blurring truth and performance. With His & Hers, Feeney returned to the world of television news, pairing a presenter and her detective ex-husband on opposite sides of a village murder case; that book later inspired a limited-series adaptation that brought Anna and Jack’s duelling perspectives to the screen.

Rock Paper Scissors and Daisy Darker pushed her interest in isolated settings and complicated families. In one, a troubled couple travels to a converted chapel in the Scottish Highlands for an ill-fated anniversary trip; in the other, relatives gather on a tidal island for an 80th birthday that turns into a locked-room countdown as the storm and the tide close in.

Later books such as Good Bad Girl, Beautiful Ugly, and My Husband’s Wife widen her canvas even further. She writes about elderly women plotting escapes from care homes, writers haunted by missing spouses on remote islands, and strangers bound together by mysterious houses and unsettling medical promises. Across these stories she is less interested in tidy whodunits than in why seemingly ordinary people cross dangerous lines.

Again and again her novels return to the slipperiness of memory, the stories families tell to protect themselves, and the gap between who we are in public and in private.

Feeney now lives with her family in the Devon countryside, often writing in a garden shed that doubles as her office. Despite the dark turns in her plots, she still describes herself first as a reader, chasing pace, empathy, and the simple pleasure of a story that keeps you turning pages late into the night.