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Sarah A Denzil Books in Order

This page lists all Sarah A Denzil thrillers in order, with summaries, series notes, Silent Child and Isabel Fielding reading order, and simple tips on where to start.

Last updated: June 7, 2026

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Saving April

by Sarah A Denzil

2016

Anxious recluse Hannah Abbott rarely leaves her Yorkshire home, but when the perfect new family moves in across the street she starts to see disturbing signs that their teenage daughter April is in danger, forcing her to confront both her neighbours and her past.

The Broken Ones

by Sarah A Denzil

2016

Primary school teacher Sophie divides her life between the classroom and caring for her mother, whose early onset dementia makes every day difficult. When strange noises, footprints and a chilling voice suggest someone is watching them, Sophie must decide whether the threat is real or all in her head.

Silent Child

by Sarah A Denzil

2017

Ten years after her six year old son is swept away in a flood and presumed dead, Emma Price has built a new life and family. When Aiden returns silent and scarred, she must uncover who took him and what her small village is hiding.

One For Sorrow

by Sarah A Denzil

2018

At Crowmont Hospital, nurse Leah Smith is assigned to Isabel Fielding, once convicted of killing a child. Isabel's gentle behaviour clashes with the gruesome case file, pulling Leah into a dangerous search for the truth about the Fielding family.

Two For Joy

by Sarah A Denzil

2018

Trying to outrun her past, Leah starts over under a new name in the coastal town of Clifton on Sea, only to face a fresh murder investigation and a decades old missing child case that echo everything she thought she left behind.

Only Daughter

by Sarah A Denzil

2019

When Kat Cavanaugh's teenage daughter Grace is found dead, the police call it suicide, but Kat cannot accept that verdict. As she combs through Grace's room and friendships, she uncovers secrets that suggest someone wanted her only child silenced.

Poison Orchids

by Sarah A Denzil

2019

Young backpackers Gemma and Hayley think they have found paradise working at a remote Australian fruit farm, until strange memory gaps and their charming boss's obsession with them hint at something far more sinister. Later, detectives must untangle their conflicting stories.

The Liar's Sister

by Sarah A Denzil

2019

Years after their childhood friend Samuel vanished from their village, sisters Rosie and Heather return home to care for their ailing mother. Heather has always suspected Rosie knows more about that stormy night, and new threats force buried memories to the surface.

Three For A Girl

by Sarah A Denzil

2020

When a film production decides to dramatise Isabel Fielding's life, Leah fears the renewed attention will end in bloodshed. After the actress playing her is murdered and Isabel disappears, Leah must question her own family as much as her former patients.

You Are Invited

by Sarah A Denzil

2020

Writer Cath is thrilled to join a handful of influencers at The Event, a luxury retreat in a renovated Transylvanian monastery streamed live to millions. Cut off in the mountains, they begin to suspect a sixth presence is moving through the shadows on camera.

Harborside Hatred

by Sarah A Denzil

2021

Fleeing years of anonymous phone harassment, Oakland O'Neill relocates from London to Liars Island and opens a cosy harbour bookshop, finally feeling safe. Then the old calls and threatening notes start again, and she realises her worst enemy may be living just streets away.

Little One

by Sarah A Denzil

2021

Fran discovers seven year old Esther alone in a playground at night, a devout, oddly old fashioned child who keeps running away from home. When Esther and her family suddenly vanish, Fran becomes convinced the girl is in danger and starts digging into a community that wants her to back off.

Stolen Girl

by Sarah A Denzil

2021

After the events of Silent Child, Emma, Aiden and young Gina are trying to rebuild a normal life when a television appearance turns into a nightmare and Gina is abducted from the studio. To bring her home, the family must confront the darkest corners of Aiden's missing years.

The Housemaid

by Sarah A Denzil

2021

Determined to understand why her mother never came back from a job at Highwood Hall, a young woman lies her way into the same housemaid position with the Howard family. As she explores secret passages and receives chilling gifts, she realises someone will do anything to keep the estate's history buried.

A Quiet Wife

by Sarah A Denzil

2022

Lonely Jack has built his days around watching his neighbour Audrey through a telescope, memorising her routines and dreams from afar. When her husband leaves, Jack steps into her life, hiding the disturbing room he has already prepared for the woman he believes is meant to be his.

Find Her

by Sarah A Denzil

2022

On Christmas Day three weddings are due to take place at isolated Wilder House when a brutal storm cuts the venue off from the world. As bodies and missing brides begin to mount, guests realise there is at least one killer snowed in among them.

My Perfect Daughter

by Sarah A Denzil

2022

Zoe once escaped a serial killer with the help of his five year old daughter, Maddie, and later adopted the traumatised girl. Years on, Maddie shows worrying traits, and when a bully is found dead and another classmate goes missing, Zoe must decide how far she is willing to trust her own child.

The Nice Guy

by Sarah A Denzil

2023

Laura thinks she has stumbled on a rare kind man in New York when Ethan rescues her from a crush of tourists and spends a night with her. Pregnancy turns their brief encounter into a bond he refuses to release, and his protective gestures twist into stalking and control.

The Stranger in Our House

by Sarah A Denzil

2023

After moving their family from London to a village edged by dense woods, Aaron and Meera lose their teenage son Noah for three days in the forest. He returns changed, with no memory and strange wounds, leaving Meera convinced that whatever came back is not really her boy.

The Woman in Coach D

by Sarah A Denzil

2024

Sixteen years after her best friend Susie supposedly died in a tragic dare gone wrong, anxious Jenny lives with gaps in her memory and the public's suspicion. Spotting Susie alive on a train drags her back into a game of dares, diary pages and buried guilt that might finally reveal the truth.

Behind a Locked Door

by Sarah A Denzil

2025

Visiting an old friend, Lucy Foster hears a baby crying behind a locked cellar door and discovers a terrified teenager hiding with her newborn. Exposing the secret catapults Lucy into unwanted attention and threats from someone determined that the girl in the cellar will never truly be heard.

Secret Sister

by Sarah A Denzil

2025

Faye Mathis is a famous crime writer on the Yorkshire moors, battling early onset dementia and racing to write her memoir before her memories fade. When a photo of a filthy, staggering woman goes viral and everyone insists it is her, Faye begins to suspect a hidden twin and a very dangerous family history.

We Play Games

by Sarah A Denzil

2025

Effie and Ben May look like the perfect couple when they move into the gated community of Ivy Oaks, but behind closed doors they treat neighbours as pawns in elaborate cons. As their latest scheme unravels, the game turns inward and the price of losing becomes deadly.

Where should I start?

If you want a starting point with her most famous book: Silent ChildStolen Girl
If you love twisty domestic suspense standalones: Saving AprilThe Broken OnesFind Her
If you prefer a crime series with recurring characters: One For SorrowTwo For JoyThree For A Girl
If you enjoy a hint of the supernatural and horror: You Are InvitedLittle OneThe Stranger in Our House
If you like gothic, atmospheric settings: The HousemaidA Quiet WifeHarborside Hatred

Author bio

Sarah A Denzil is a British suspense writer from Derbyshire who has built a loyal following for her dark, character driven thrillers. Under the name Sarah Dalton she also writes speculative fiction for teenagers, so she is used to living in two imaginative worlds at once.

She grew up in the countryside, far from big cities, which meant long stretches of time to read and daydream. As a teenager she devoured horror, crime and fantasy, and slowly began to see the stories in her head as something she could put on the page.

Before she ever wrote domestic thrillers, she made her name with young adult books as Sarah Dalton. Series like The Blemished, Mary Hades and White Hart mix dystopian futures, ghosts and magic with coming of age struggles, letting her experiment with tension and atmosphere.

Those early books taught her how to build whole worlds and how to sit with a character through years of their life. When she turned to adult psychological suspense, starting with Saving April and The Broken Ones in 2016, she carried that same focus into smaller, more claustrophobic settings: suburban streets, crumbling houses, families under pressure.

Her real breakthrough came with Silent Child, a novel about a mother whose six year old son vanishes during a flood and returns ten years later, traumatised and unable to explain where he has been. The book reached readers far beyond the usual thriller audience, topping digital charts in several countries and winning a thriller of the year honour for its audio edition.

That success gave her the freedom to keep digging into the kind of stories she cares about, the ones where ordinary people discover just how far they will go when everything they love is threatened.

Since then she has written a steady stream of standalones and series. The Isabel Fielding books follow a psychiatric nurse who is drawn to a former child killer and cannot tell if she is caring for a monster or uncovering a miscarriage of justice. The Silent Child series stays with Emma and Aiden after their reunion, asking what healing really looks like when the past refuses to stay buried.

Other novels push into gothic or supernatural territory. You Are Invited strands a group of influencers in a remote Transylvanian monastery where the cameras never stop running and something seems to move just out of shot. The Housemaid sends a young woman back to the grand estate where her mother once worked, only to find hidden rooms, watching eyes and a history that does not want to be uncovered.

Across these books certain threads repeat. Parents haunted by guilt. Children carrying secrets adults do not want to hear. Tight knit communities that turn on outsiders. A streak of the uncanny that may or may not be explained away by the end. Her stories can be unsettling, but they are always anchored in recognisable, messy human feelings.

These days Sarah lives in Yorkshire with her husband and cats, writing from a home surrounded by fields and changeable weather. She walks, listens, notices the small tensions between people in shops and on buses, and quietly files them away. If you like suspense that feels close to home, with twists that grow out of character, her books offer plenty to explore.

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