Greer Hendricks Books in Order

Greer Hendricks grew up in San Francisco and started writing early, making songs, poems, and stories when she was still a kid. That interest never really left, but her first path into books ran through journalism and publishing rather than straight into fiction.

She studied psychology at Connecticut College, then worked at Allure before earning a master's degree in journalism at Columbia. Those interests, people, behavior, motivation, and the stories people tell about themselves, turned out to be a strong foundation for the kind of suspense she would later write.

For more than twenty years, Hendricks worked at Simon & Schuster, where she eventually became a senior editor. She spent those years helping other writers shape their books, and she edited authors including Jennifer Weiner, Lauren Weisberger, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and Stephen Chbosky.

She learned how stories work from the inside out.

After nearly two decades at the same company, she was ready for a change. By then she had already built a close friendship with novelist Sarah Pekkanen, whose early books Hendricks had edited, and Pekkanen suggested they try writing one together. That idea became The Wife Between Us, the twisty relationship thriller that introduced Hendricks to readers as a novelist and quickly became a bestseller.

The partnership stuck. Together they went on to write An Anonymous Girl, about a paid psychology study that turns invasive, You Are Not Alone, about loneliness and a glamorous friend group with sharp edges, and The Golden Couple, which opens with a marriage in trouble and a therapist who has no interest in playing by the usual rules. Readers often come for the reversals and cliffhangers, but they stay for the social tension and the way the books keep shifting what seems true.

Their method is unusually close. Instead of splitting chapters or characters, Hendricks and Pekkanen have said they write every line together in real time, talking through scenes as they go. That back-and-forth helps explain why the books feel so tightly built even when the plot is busy and slippery.

Her stories keep circling a few big questions. Who has power in a relationship? What do people ignore when love, envy, fear, grief, or status gets involved?

That helps explain the recurring Hendricks territory: complicated women, close relationships under strain, polished settings with cracks underneath, and psychological games that feel just believable enough to be unsettling. Even when the twists land hard, the emotional stakes usually come from familiar places, marriage, friendship, ambition, money, shame, and the simple wish to be seen clearly.

In more recent work, she has also published short fiction on her own, including A Show of Faith and The Sublet. Those stories keep the same interest in pressure, longing, and unease, just in a smaller frame. Hendricks lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children, and that mix of city life, human observation, and publishing know-how still runs through everything she writes.