Shalini Boland Books in Order
Browse all Shalini Boland books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and easy suggestions on where to start reading her thrillers and fantasy.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
30 books
Hidden
by Shalini Boland
2011
Seventeen-year-old Madison Greene thinks inheriting Marchwood House is her lucky break, until she finds a vampire sleeping in the basement. Alexandre is beautiful, dangerous, and tied to secrets that could destroy the new life she hoped to build.
Outside
by Shalini Boland
2011
In a future split between safe Perimeters and a deadly outside world, Riley leaves everything behind to hunt her sister's killer. With Luc beside her and the old world collapsing in a parallel timeline, the journey grows far bigger than revenge.
A Shirtful of Frogs
by Shalini Boland
2012
When six-year-old evacuee Jimmy is sent from wartime London to the countryside, he is lonely, homesick, and badly treated. Then a strange boy from another time appears, and their friendship may change both lives.
Thicker Than Blood
by Shalini Boland
2012
Madison and Alexandre finally have a fragile peace at Marchwood House, until an old enemy tears it apart. Dragged into a hidden vampire world far from home, Maddie must survive long enough to uncover the truth behind Alexandre's past.
The Clearing
by Shalini Boland
2013
Back behind the Perimeter, Riley should be safe, but children are vanishing and an old enemy is closing in. To protect the people she loves, she must head into danger again and face truths she hoped to leave outside.
The Ghost of Nan Clarks Lane
by Shalini Boland
2013
In 1940, twins Jimmy and Patrick head into the North London countryside to catch frogs and trade ghost stories. Before the day is over, Jimmy starts to fear that the ghost of Nan Clarks Lane may be real.
The Perimeter
by Shalini Boland
2013
Riley's hard-won refuge is under threat as James Gray and his forces close in on the Perimeter. With her community on the line, she faces brutal choices about loyalty, survival, and the kind of future worth fighting for.
Hunted
by Shalini Boland
2016
Maddie and Alexandre want a quiet life at Marchwood, but the past is not finished with them. A mysterious woman, ancient secrets, and a deadly hunter force them back into the vampire world for one last dangerous fight.
The Best Friend
by Shalini Boland
2016
Louisa's glamorous new best friend seems to have everything, money, status, confidence, the lot. But the closer Louisa gets, the more she senses something rotten underneath, and friendship turns into a trap.
The Girl from the Sea
by Shalini Boland
2016
Mia is washed up on a Dorset beach with no memory, not even of her own name. When a man claims to be her boyfriend, her perfect life starts to look frighteningly false, and remembering may be the most dangerous part.
The Millionaire's Wife
by Shalini Boland
2017
Anna's comfortable marriage is shattered when news of a woman's death pulls her darkest secret back into view. To protect her husband and herself, she must confront an old love and a past built on lies.
The Secret Mother
by Shalini Boland
2017
Tessa comes home to find a little boy in her kitchen asking if she is his mummy. She has no children anymore, and as suspicion falls on her, buried grief and her husband's secrets begin to tear her life apart.
The Child Next Door
by Shalini Boland
2018
A terrified Kirstie hears a voice on the baby monitor planning to take a child, yet her own baby is still asleep upstairs. As no one believes her, the quiet road she trusted starts to feel full of danger.
The Perfect Family
by Shalini Boland
2018
Gemma's six-year-old daughter vanishes from home, then turns up safe, and that should be the end of the nightmare. Instead, the brief disappearance cracks open secrets that start pulling her family apart.
The Silent Sister
by Shalini Boland
2018
Lizzy receives a threatening letter that seems to come from the sister she has not spoken to in years. As the messages grow darker, she begins to doubt everyone around her, including the people she thought were safest.
The Marriage Betrayal
by Shalini Boland
2019
Faye's summer trip to her husband's seaside hometown becomes a nightmare when he and their little son vanish on a morning walk. As police questions mount, both Jake's past and Faye's own secrets come under pressure.
The Other Daughter
by Shalini Boland
2019
Nine years after her toddler Holly was taken, Rachel meets a teenage girl she is certain is her missing child. What begins as suspicion turns into obsession, and she will risk everything to prove she is right.
One of Us Is Lying
by Shalini Boland
2020
Tia's young daughter asks a chilling question, why did Mummy kill someone? Old rumors and buried secrets from a long friendship begin to surface, and Tia must work out who is lying before her life collapses.
The Wife
by Shalini Boland
2020
Zoe fainted on her wedding day and has never trusted the story she was told about it. Ten years later, an anniversary celebration stirs up lies, missing memories, and a truth that could wreck her marriage.
A Perfect Stranger
by Shalini Boland
2021
Emily and Dani think they know the men in their lives, until money trouble and hidden motives pull their families together. As secrets spread through both marriages, the line between victim, liar, and stranger keeps shifting.
My Little Girl
by Shalini Boland
2021
Claire's daughter disappears while supposedly safe with family, and every version of the day seems to clash. Her husband, his ex-wife, and Claire's mother-in-law all know more than they admit, and trust becomes impossible.
The Couple Upstairs
by Shalini Boland
2021
Nina hopes a new seaside flat means a fresh start for her and Zac, but the friendly couple upstairs unsettle her from the start. Soon there are whispers, secrets, and the sickening sense that someone is watching.
The Daughter-in-Law
by Shalini Boland
2022
Caroline returns to England with her new husband and moves into his family home, where her mother-in-law makes her unwelcome from day one. Then she learns Seb had a first wife, and that woman's death still hangs over the house.
The Family Holiday
by Shalini Boland
2022
A dream house swap in Italy starts to unravel when Beth learns the woman in her Dorset home is snooping through her things. Then she finds a photograph linking her husband to the villa, and the holiday turns deadly.
The Silent Bride
by Shalini Boland
2023
On her wedding day, Alice walks to the altar and finds a stranger waiting for her. Everyone insists he is Seth, but Alice knows he is not, and proving the truth becomes a nightmare.
The Honeymoon
by Shalini Boland
2024
Stella arrives in Venice for a perfect honeymoon, then wakes to find her new husband gone without a trace. As she searches for Austin, every answer exposes another lie about the man she just married.
The School Reunion
by Shalini Boland
2024
Chloe goes to her school reunion hoping for a reset, and maybe another chance with the one boy she never forgot. Instead the night turns sharp and dangerous as old secrets surface in front of the people who know her past.
The Birthday Party
by Shalini Boland
2025
At her daughter's ice-rink party, Natalie counts six girls onto the ice and only five come back. Ten years later, as the family is forced to revisit that day, old grief and buried secrets refuse to stay buried.
The Ex
by Shalini Boland
2026
Willow moves to a quiet town hoping for a clean start, then finds herself caught between charming Gabe and friendly neighbor Priya. When she learns the two share a past, her fresh start begins to look carefully staged.
The Other Twin
by Shalini Boland
2026
Bella seems to have the life Jade was denied, money, love, and every lucky break. When the sisters discover they were separated at birth, Jade starts slipping into Bella's world with revenge on her mind.
Where should I start?
If you want twisty domestic suspense: The Secret Mother → The Silent Bride → The Honeymoon
If missing-child stories hook you: The Perfect Family → My Little Girl → The Birthday Party
If you like messy friendships and family secrets: The Best Friend → The Other Daughter → The Daughter-in-Law
If you want supernatural romance: Hidden → Thicker Than Blood → Hunted
If you want dystopian adventure: Outside → The Clearing → The Perimeter
Author bio
Shalini Boland lives by the sea in Dorset, England, with her family and their increasingly demanding dog, Queen Jess. Before novels took over, she was signed to Universal Music Publishing as a singer-songwriter. These days she is best known for twisty fiction, but the creative thread is the same. She likes building stories that start with ordinary people and then pull the rug from under them.
Music came first, and before she was known for thrillers she was working as a songwriter and performer.
After having her first child, she decided to step away from music because she missed being with family, and fiction became the way she stayed connected to her creative side. Finishing her first book gave her a real jolt of confidence. She has said that was the moment she realized she could do this, and wanted to do it again. It is easy to see that determination in the pace of everything that followed.
Boland often talks about plotting as the backbone of a good thriller. She likes strong outlines, tension, action, and twists that arrive at the right moment. Her books tend to move quickly, with short chapters and a steady feeling that something is off. Even when the setup gets wild, the emotion is familiar: a marriage under strain, a missing child, a wedding day gone wrong, a house full of secrets.
Her fiction is not limited to one shelf.
Before the domestic thrillers really took over, she wrote across science fiction, fantasy, and children's fiction. The Outside trilogy imagines a near-future Britain divided by Perimeters, where safety comes at a price. The Marchwood Vampires books, beginning with Hidden, mix romance, danger, and old supernatural grudges. She also wrote A Shirtful of Frogs, a World War II story with a time-slip twist, based on evacuee experiences close to her family.
A lot of readers meet her through the thrillers. The Girl from the Sea opens with a woman washed up on a beach, unable to remember even her own name. The Secret Mother turns a simple question from a lost child into something far more disturbing. The Best Friend digs into status, envy, and toxic friendship, while The Silent Bride starts with one of Boland's sharpest hooks: a woman reaches the altar and does not recognize the man waiting for her. She writes the kind of premises you can explain in one breath and then immediately want to test for yourself.
What keeps those books working is that they stay close to home. Boland writes about relationships under pressure, family loyalties, old mistakes, and the awful feeling that the person beside you may not be who you thought. Readers who enjoy her work often mention the pace, the clean setups, the mounting doubt, and the last-minute turns. Her books have sold more than three million copies, have been translated into thirteen languages, and The Silent Bride was selected as an Audible bestseller of 2023.
There is a nice everydayness to the way she talks about her life now. She writes from Dorset, loves the beach when the weather behaves, and likes curling up by the fire with tea when it does not. She has said that ideas often arrive when she is doing something other than writing, which is why she keeps notebooks close at hand. At home, conversations about plots, edits, murder, and betrayal are apparently normal enough that her family is used to them. That feels very on-brand. The life around the books sounds grounded, even when the books themselves are busy making everything fall apart.
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