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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1981
  • Latest Book:
    March 2019
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About the Author

Patricia Macdonald's darkly hypnotic tales have captivated readers across America, as well as in France, where she is a #1 bestselling author. Her previous novels include Suspicious Origin, Stranger in the House, Not Guilty, and the Edgar Award-nominated The Unforgiven. She lives with her husband and daughter in New Jersey, where she is working on her next novel.

Book List in Order: 22 titles



  • She swore she was innocent. Maggie Fraser has tried to forget. The body of the man she loved. The blood seeping into the snow. The scandalous murder trial. The twelve agonizing years in prison for a crime she did not commit. But now Maggie is ...



  • National bestselling author Patricia MacDonald spins a tale of nerve-shattering suspense that leads readers down the dark, winding roads of a picture-perfect suburban town. WHAT DID HE SEE? WHAT DOES HE KNOW? Eleven years ago, Anna Lange's life was...



  • Two estranged sisters. One obsessive boyfriend. A dark secret that could destroy them all. Beth has the perfect life. She’s the one who escaped her bleak hometown and now she’s got a successful business, a devoted boyfriend, and her dream ho...



  • With chilling echoes of a notorious, real-life murder in Connecticut, nationally bestselling author Patricia MacDonald's gripping novel unwraps the layers of fear and guilt in a small town where nothing bad ever happens -- until a pretty teenager dis...



  • As a mysterious force drives mountain lions from the hills, someone is trying to steal Tamara Hunt's strange photographs from Phantom Valley--pictures that could be the key to a terrifying mystery. Original....



  • While Sam's alter-ego clone, Stinky Stanley, readies Sam for the big gross food-eating contest, Wendell Rice, Sam's arch-rival, comes too close for comfort in his search for the secret of Stanley's creation. Original....



  • Sweethearts since high school, Karen and Greg Newhall have lived in Bayland, Massachusetts, all their lives. They trust each other. They know their neighbors. Bayland has been the perfect place to raise their adopted daughter, Jenny. Then a young ...



  • Laura Reed has given up believing in hope. When her hometown-hero husband was killed during a supposed break-in, most in their small seaside community weren't shy about thinking Laura guilty -- or turning her and her young son's lives into a nightmar...



  • Maddy Blake has tried to get her family's life back to normal, but it's been a wrenching struggle. Her teacher husband, Doug, has been acquitted of an unthinkable charge, but his reputation and their finances are on shaky ground. And it only gets wor...






  • WAS IT AN ACCIDENT OR WAS IT MURDER? Years ago, Keely Bennett's world was shattered by her husband's suicide - witnessed by her young son, Dylan. Determined to go on, Keely has remarried, and now lives a comfortable life with a newborn baby girl....



  • When her estranged sister, Greta, is killed in a fire, Boston news producer Britt Andersen heads straight for her sister's Vermont town where, for the first time, she meets her handsome brother-in-law, Alec Lynch, and her eleven-year-old niece, Zoe -...



  • Patricia MacDonald has won a worldwide audience of readers with her page-turning novels of domestic suspense that twist and turn with surprises. Now she presents a riveting thriller about a young woman who finds her life threatened when she returns t...



  • World renowned for her page-turning suspense bestsellers, Patricia MacDonald draws from the headline-making murder of a young mother-to-be to probe a terrifying question: can a wife truly know the man she's vowed to love forever? A psychologist in...



  • Patricia MacDonald has won a worldwide audience of readers with her pageturning crime novels that expertly blend riveting suspense and powerful family drama. Now, she delivers the chilling story of a woman who discovers that her own eyewitness testim...



  • When Morgan Adair arrives at the small seaside town of West Briar on the Long Island shore, she is looking forward to attending the baptism of her new godson, Drew. Morgan and Drew's mother, Claire, have been friends since childhood, and Morgan was d...



  • WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW CAN HURT YOU... For Shelby Sloan, life will never be normal again. Her beloved daughter has vanished from a cruise ship, and even more heartbreaking, police discover that Chloe was a recovering alcoholic -- something even Shelb...



  • Her secrets are a weapon… All Caitlin Rogers ever wanted was to make things right. Her addict brother killed a woman in a hit-and-run accident, then overdosed instead of going to the police. Caitlin immediately sought out the victim's family to...



  • BLOOD TIES… After her parents' untimely death, it's all art curator Alex Woods can do to start packing away happy family memories and facing one lonely day at a time. Until she suddenly discovers a half sister her mother was forced to give up -...



  • How well do you know the people closest to you? Hannah, Adam and adorable young Sydney Wickes are living under assumed identities in West Philadelphia. Although she’s found it hard to adjust to life in the city, at least Hannah and her family a...






  • A daughter sets out to discover the truth about her mother’s death in this absorbing novel of psychological suspense. Eden Radley had a strained relationship with her mother ever since Tara deserted the family nine years before to run off with h...



  • A deathbed confession has chilling consequences in this gripping novel of psychological suspense. “I have to tell you something … I did something bad”. Ever since her best friend Molly was murdered fifteen years before, Blair Butler has r...



  • A heavily pregnant young woman returns to her small hometown to discover it’s not the safe haven she had first supposed… Following a whirlwind romance with an old acquaintance she bumped into at a high school reunion, heavily pregnant Dena Ru...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Patricia MacDonald has published 22 books.

Patricia MacDonald does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Safe Haven, was published in March 2019.

The first book by Patricia MacDonald, The Unforgiven, was published in August 1981.

No. Patricia MacDonald does not write books in series.