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Paula Hawkins

(b.1972)

aka Amy Silver

PAULA HAWKINS worked as a journalist for fifteen years before turning her hand to fiction. She is the author of The Girl on the Train and Into the Water. An international #1 bestseller, The Girl On the Train was published in 50 countries and over 40 languages. It has sold over 18 million copies worldwide and has been adapted into a major motion picture. Hawkins was born in Zimbabwe and now lives in London.

Genres: Mystery

Novels

   The Girl On the Train (2015)
   Into the Water (2017)
   A Slow Fire Burning (2019)

Omnibus editions

The Girl on the Train / Into the Water / A Slow Fire Burning (2023)

Series contributed to

Quick Reads 2022
Blind Spot (2022)

Awards

Barry Awards Best First Novel nominee (2016) : The Girl On the Train

Paula Hawkins recommends

The Other Tenant (2024)
Lesley Kara
"Kara keeps you guessing until the final page."

Where You End (2024)
Abbott Kahler
"A perfectly paced, addictive thriller with a vicious twist."

Cold Summer (2023)
(DCI Castle, book 3)
James Ellson
"Intelligent and pacy thriller."

The Secret Hours (2023)
Mick Herron
"I doubt I'll read a more enjoyable novel all year. The Secret Hours has it all: thrilling action scenes, crackling dialogue, characters to infuriate and beguile, and a neatly intricate plot. And through it all cuts Herron's acerbic wit, its effect heightened by the glimpses he allows us, from time to time, from his world to ours."

Those We Thought We Knew (2023)
David Joy
"In every line of this outstanding novel, you feel David Joy's deep connection to the mountains he comes from and the people who live there. With his faultless ear for dialogue and exceptional sense of place, he has crafted a beautiful literary crime thriller about belonging and betrayal in rural America."

The List (2023)
Yomi Adegoke
"Intelligent, funny, topical, and impossible to put down."

My Murder (2023)
Katie Williams
"Startling and original, My Murder is a gripping speculative twist on the crime novel."

Really Good, Actually (2023)
Monica Heisey
"Hilarious, heart-warming, wise."

Amazing Grace Adams (2023)
Fran Littlewood
"Hugely enjoyable. Compelling, funny and poignant. I devoured it."

Wahala (2022)
Nikki May
"This has bestseller written all over it. Fast-paced, funny, shocking...I loved it."

Notes on an Execution (2022)
Danya Kukafka
"Provocative, intelligent, thrilling, moving."

Everyone is Still Alive (2021)
Cathy Rentzenbrink
"Sharply observed and utterly compelling, Everyone Is Still Alive had me cackling on one page and crying the next; Cathy Rentzenbrink's warmth and wisdom are evident in every line."

The Mad Women's Ball (2021)
Victoria Mas
"In this darkly delightful Gothic treasure, Mas explores grief, trauma, and sisterhood behind the walls of Paris's infamous Salpêtrière hospital."

Hostage (2021)
Clare Mackintosh
"No one writes a twist like Clare Mackintosh."

The First Day of Spring (2021)
Nancy Tucker
"Tense, addictive and powered by an unforgettable narrative voice."

Tall Bones (2021)
Anna Bailey
"Anna Bailey's debut is irresistible, a compelling and nuanced psychological thriller suffused with small town prejudice and dark family secrets."

Lean Fall Stand (2021)
Jon McGregor
"Utterly original. Jaw-dropping. Lean Fall Stand is the sort of book you’ll think about for ages."

The End of Men (2021)
Christina Sweeney-Baird
"A fiercely intelligent page-turner… at once thoughtful and highly emotive."

Girl A (2021)
Abigail Dean
"Fantastic, I loved it."

The Weekend (2020)
Charlotte Wood
"Friendship, ambition, love, sexual politics and death: it's all here in one sharp, funny, heartbreaking and gorgeously-written package. I loved it."

Long Bright River (2020)
Liz Moore
"Outstanding."

Searching for Sylvie Lee (2019)
Jean Kwok
"A twisting tale of love, loss, and dark family secrets."

We Know You Know (2019)
Erin Kelly
"The incomparable Erin Kelly has written another captivating, cleverly constructed contemporary novel."

The Doll Factory (2019)
Elizabeth Macneal
"A gorgeously evocative tale of love, art and obsession."

Cape May (2019)
Chip Cheek
"What a treat. Glamorous and nostalgic and very sexy, Cape May is a novel about marriage, lust, shabby seaside towns and lots of gin. Brilliantly unsettling - one of those books that stays with you."

The Guilty Party (2019)
Mel McGrath
"Dark, clever, terrifying."

The One That Got Away (2018)
Joe Clifford
"An Intelligent and astutely observed piece of American small-town noir."

Give Me Your Hand (2018)
Megan Abbott
"Megan Abbott at her very best. Cool, crisp, chilling."

A Double Life (2018)
Flynn Berry
"A Double Life is a thrilling page-turner, but it is also a compassionate and angry book: with forensic precision, Berry picks apart lives derailed by violence and the ways in which class privilege protects the guilty."

The Water Cure (2018)
Sophie Mackintosh
"Eerily beautiful, this strange, unsettling novel creeps up and grabs hold of you."

Little Fires Everywhere (2017)
Celeste Ng
"Witty, wise and tender. It's a marvel."

Safe (2017)
Ryan Gattis
"A thrilling heist novel with a big beating heart."

See What I Have Done (2017)
Sarah Schmidt
"Eerie and compelling, Sarah Schmidt breathes such life into the terrible, twisted tale of Lizzie Borden and her family, she makes it impossible to look away."

The Witchfinder's Sister (2017)
Beth Underdown
"VIVID AND TERRIFYING."

Dangerous Crossing (2017)
Rachel Rhys
"Thrilling, seductive, utterly absorbing."

Little Black Lies (2015)
Sharon Bolton
"A dark and haunting thriller. It creeps under your skin and doesn't let you go."

The Life I Left Behind (2014)
Colette McBeth
"A rare thing; gripping but compassionate."

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