Sarah Lotz Books in Order
Explore Sarah Lotz books in order, from solo thrillers to pseudonymous collaborations, with quick summaries, series links, and help choosing where to start.
Last updated: July 10, 2026
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Sarah Lotz books in publication order
22 books
Pompidou Posse
by Sarah Lotz
2008
Two British teens flee to Paris after an accident back home and end up sleeping rough on the streets. Funny, raw, and bruising, it follows their friendship through hunger, danger, and the city's grittier corners.
The Mall
by Sarah Lotz
2010
After the boy she's minding vanishes in a Johannesburg mall, Rhoda forces bored bookseller Dan to help her search. The back corridors lead somewhere far worse than lost property, a warped underworld built from fear and consumption.
Deadlands
by Sarah Lotz
2011
In zombie-ravaged Cape Town, teenager Lele de la Fontein is chosen in a sinister annual lottery. She runs into the Deadlands, joins the outlaw Mall Rats, and starts uncovering the truth behind the mysterious Guardians.
The Ward
by Sarah Lotz
2012
Lisa wants one more operation. Farrell wakes blind in a crumbling hospital called New Hope. Their escape attempt drops them into a grotesque lower world of body horror, bad bargains, and a nightmare that will not let them go.
A Girl Walks Into a Bar
by Sarah Lotz
2013
When a friend's cancellation leaves you alone at a glamorous bar, the night opens into a string of flirtatious choices. Rock stars, bartenders, bodyguards, and bad decisions all wait behind the next page.
A Girl Walks Into a Wedding
by Sarah Lotz
2013
As your best friend's bridesmaid, you step into a wedding weekend packed with awkward duties and tempting distractions. Every choice, from date night to dance floor detour, sends the story toward a different romantic misadventure.
Death of a Saint
by Sarah Lotz
2013
Hiding in the Deadlands, Lele and the Mall Rats face a brutal choice: return to the city or risk the road beyond it. Secrets about the zombies, the Guardians, and each other threaten to tear them apart.
The New Girl
by Sarah Lotz
2013
At an elite school, handyman Ryan becomes dangerously fixated on a strange new girl, while lonely doll-maker Tara accepts a commission that feels wrong from the start. Their separate lives are pulled into a deeply unsettling plan.
A Girl Walks into a Blind Date
by Sarah Lotz
2014
Internet dating turns into an interactive adventure when a blind date could send you to New York, Venice, or Amsterdam. The fun is in the choices, and in seeing how quickly romance can become chaos.
The Army Of The Lost
by Sarah Lotz
2014
Eleven years after the dead took South Africa, the surviving Mall Rats are pulled into Johannesburg's corrupt politics and rising rebellion. Old wounds, betrayal, and a fight for freedom push the group to its breaking point.
The Three
by Sarah Lotz
2014
Four planes crash on the same day, but only three children are found alive. As rumors spread of a fourth survivor, grief, conspiracy, and apocalyptic fear turn a global disaster into something even stranger.
Ash Remains
by Sarah Lotz
2015
Scarred and diminished, the surviving Mall Rats head back to Cape Town expecting answers and a hero's welcome. Instead they find a city in worse shape than ever, and a final reckoning closing in.
The Apartment
by Sarah Lotz
2015
Mark and Steph, still shaken by a violent home invasion, swap their Cape Town home for a Paris apartment that looks perfect online. What they find instead is decay, dread, and something sinister that may follow them home.
Under Ground
by Sarah Lotz
2015
When a deadly flu outbreak hits the United States, a group of wealthy survivors race to a luxury bunker in rural Maine. Once the door seals and a body turns up, the real threat may already be inside.
Day Four
by Sarah Lotz
2016
A bargain Caribbean cruise becomes a trap when the ship loses power and drifts cut off from the world. As illness spreads and panic takes hold, passengers and crew face murder, ghosts, and a growing sense that rescue may never come.
Skin Deep
by Sarah Lotz
2016
Malika and Robin buy Irongrove Lodge hoping for a fresh start, but the house gets into Robin's head as he renovates it. Told from many voices, this creepy novella builds toward a brutal crime and its aftermath.
Body in the Woods
by Sarah Lotz
2017
Claire is home alone in the countryside when an old friend shows up asking for the one favor she once promised. What follows is a tense, intimate story of guilt, loyalty, and a body that refuses to stay buried.
The White Road
by Sarah Lotz
2017
A thrill-seeking climber chases internet fame from a near-disaster in a Welsh cave to an Everest expedition. The higher he goes, the more the mountain feels crowded with ghosts, guilt, and things that should have stayed buried.
Missing Person
by Sarah Lotz
2019
When Shaun posts an old family photo online, amateur sleuths identify his missing uncle as a murdered boy from decades earlier. Their hunt for the truth pulls a group of internet strangers into a dangerous, deeply personal case.
Reborn
by Sarah Lotz
2020
Bonnie Black dies an old woman and wakes in a fierce afterlife where the dead return young. To find the husband she lost, she must cross a war-torn world of monsters, armies, and unfinished business.
The Impossible Us
by Sarah Lotz
2022
A misdirected email throws Nick and Bee into a witty, intimate connection that feels too good to be ordinary. Just as they move toward meeting in real life, a strange twist threatens to keep them apart.
How to Kill a Crime Writer
by Sarah Lotz
2026
After her bestselling crime-writer mother dies, Niamh retreats to the family cottage to manage the estate. Then her mother's fictional detective appears in the kitchen, and together they begin probing a death that may not have been an accident.
Where to start with Sarah Lotz
If you want big, high-concept horror: The Three → Day Four → The White Road
If you prefer a modern mystery: Missing Person
If you want the unexpected love story: The Impossible Us
If you want collaborative urban horror: The Mall → The Ward → The New Girl
If you want zombies and YA energy: Deadlands → Death of a Saint → The Army Of The Lost → Ash Remains
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Author bio
Sarah Lotz was born in Wolverhampton, England, and grew up in the UK before her life took a few hard left turns. As a teenager she left home, spent time in Paris and Israel, and eventually made South Africa home for many years. That restless start shows up all through her fiction, which is full of people pushed out of safe routines and into strange, dangerous places.
She did not come to writing by way of a tidy plan.
Lotz studied English at the University of Cape Town and worked across different kinds of storytelling, including screenwriting, before her novels found a wide international audience. She has written on her own and under several pen names, which feels fitting for a writer who plainly enjoys changing the rules of the game.
Under her own name, she moves easily between horror, thriller, crime, and the occasional love story with a weird twist. The Three starts with four plane crashes and three child survivors, then spirals into fear, rumor, and apocalypse talk. Day Four traps passengers on a disabled cruise ship and lets panic, sickness, and the supernatural close in. The White Road takes a thrill-seeker from a cave disaster toward Everest, while Missing Person turns an online search for a missing man into a dark, modern mystery.
Even when the setup sounds huge, her stories stay close to the messy humans inside it.
That is a big part of her appeal. Lotz likes high-concept hooks, but she also likes friction: family strain, grief, class tension, bad choices, and the small lies people tell themselves when they are scared. Her books often use emails, transcripts, message boards, and other found material, which gives them an immediate, half-gossipy energy, like you are piecing the nightmare together alongside everyone else.
She also writes with collaborators. With Louis Greenberg she is S.L. Grey, the name behind unsettling urban horror novels such as The Mall, The Ward, and The New Girl. With her daughter Savannah Lotz she wrote the zombie-filled Deadlands books as Lily Herne. And with Helen Moffett and Paige Nick she was part of Helena S. Paige, the team behind the interactive A Girl Walks Into... novels. Few writers move this comfortably between solo work, collaboration, horror, satire, and playful genre experiments.
Then there is The Impossible Us, which shows another side of her altogether. It begins with a misdirected email and turns into a funny, tender love story with a speculative bend. That range, from gruesome to romantic, makes her bibliography more fun to explore than it first appears. The macabre is usually nearby, but so is humor.
These days Lotz lives in Wales with her family and other animals. Whether she is writing about zombies, haunted spaces, internet mysteries, or impossible connections, she keeps returning to the same question: what happens when ordinary life slips, just a little, and never quite finds its way back?
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