Gemma Rogers Books in Order

If you want the grittiest revenge story: Stalker
If you like buried secrets from the past: Payback → The Mistake / Bad Girls → The Feud
If you want obsession and blurred boundaries: Reckless / The Teacher → The Babysitter
If you prefer domestic suspense close to home: The Neighbour → The Roommate / The Flat Mate → The Good Wife
If you want her newest high-pressure thrillers: The Honeymoon → The Night Shift → The Stranger at No. 6 → The Girlfriend

Gemma Rogers writes dark, fast-moving thrillers about women under pressure, bad choices, and the secrets people keep behind ordinary front doors. She lives in West Sussex with her husband and two daughters, and that close-to-home feeling matters in her fiction. Her stories tend to unfold in recognisable places, streets, schools, workplaces, and family houses, which makes the danger feel as if it could slide into everyday life without much warning.

She started writing young. As a child she and her brother made up stories together and illustrated them, and as a teenager she tore through Point Horror, Christopher Pike, Richard Laymon and Judy Blume. That mix of scares, pace and emotional messiness still shows in the books she writes now. Even when the plots turn wild, the feelings underneath them tend to stay grounded in shame, fear, anger and the need to survive.

But publishing did not happen overnight.

In 2016, at the age of thirty-seven, Rogers finished a full novel for the first time after years of starting stories and not quite getting to the end. She kept writing through agent rejections and kept building new ideas. When a new publisher opened for submissions in 2019, she sent in the manuscript that became Stalker, and that debut was published in September of the same year.

Stalker came from somewhere deeply personal. Rogers has spoken about a traumatic attack she experienced in her early twenties, and the book grew out of the fear, anger and unfinished feelings that stayed with her afterwards. That gave her debut a raw edge, but it also set the pattern for what followed, thrillers where women are cornered, disbelieved, watched, or pushed too far, then forced to act when the usual systems do not protect them.

Since then she has written a steady run of standalones, including Payback, Reckless / The Teacher, The Neighbour, The Good Wife, The Honeymoon and The Girlfriend. Readers who click with Rogers usually come for the pace, the short chapters, the constant sense that something is off, and the fact that her main characters rarely feel polished or perfect. They worry, lie, lash out, second-guess themselves, and keep going anyway, which gives the books some bite beneath the twists.

Ordinary settings are part of her trick.

A hostile neighbour, a controlling husband, a flatmate who feels wrong, a bride who discovers betrayal on her wedding day, a woman stuck on a deadly night shift. Rogers likes a clean, nasty setup, then keeps tightening it. Her books often circle around obsession, revenge, stalking, controlling relationships, missing people, and secrets that refuse to stay buried. Trouble in these novels does not arrive from a far-off criminal underworld. It turns up in the kitchen, at work, in the spare room, or on the school run.

Off the page, she has said she loves horror and thriller films, country walks, swimming, and anything involving cake. She has also talked about long baths and dog walks helping her untangle plot problems, which feels fitting for a writer who builds stories from one bad moment and follows the fallout all the way through. By 2026 she had published thirteen thrillers and sold more than 600,000 books, a reminder that this was not an overnight career at all. It grew book by book, from a writer who kept going until she finally reached the end of the story, and then started the next one.