Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If You Knew Her | 2017 | Emily Elgar | Buy |
| 2 | Grace Is Gone | 2020 | Emily Elgar | Buy |
Emily Elgar writes psychological thrillers built around unreliable narrators and carefully hidden secrets. Her novels take ordinary settings and reveal the darkness lurking beneath surfaces that seem perfectly normal.
If You Knew Her (2017) unfolds largely through the perspective of a paralyzed man who shares a hospital ward with a comatose woman and begins to piece together what happened to her. The structure creates tension as readers know things the other characters cannot.
Grace Is Gone (2020) examines a community turned upside down by a child’s disappearance. Elgar explores how tragedy exposes fractures in relationships and brings secrets to light that people worked hard to keep buried. Both novels reward readers who pay attention to details.