Andrea Mara Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Andrea Mara is an Irish published author.

She is married and resides in Dublin, Ireland with her spouse and three children.

Andrea’s first book was The Other Side of the Wall. It was a number one bestseller in Irish Crime on Amazon and made the shortlist for the Kate O’Brien Award in 2018. She followed that up with her book One Click which was shortlisted for the Irish Crime Novel of the Year and was number one in Amazon in the category of Irish crime and Northern Irish Crime.

She has since published several more novels since her debut, including The Sleeper Lies, All Her Fault, Hide and Seek, No One Saw a Thing, Someone in the Attic, and It Should Have Been You. No One Saw a Thing was a best seller in Ireland and on Kindle, while Hide and Seek was a bestseller for five weeks in the Irish Times and made the shortlist for the Irish Crime Novel of the Year. Meanwhile, All Her Fault also was a top ten bestseller on the Sunday Times and Irish Times, was named the Sunday Times Crime Novel of the Month, and was a top five bestseller on Kindle, as well as being shortlisted to make the Irish Crime Novel of the Year.

All Her Fault has also been given a straight to series order from Peacock for an adaptation of Mara’s novel. The series order was announced as part of the Television Critics Association winter press tour. Megan Gallagher will adapt the story to the screen as well as serve as executive producer along with others from Carnival Films, which will also produce.

Andrea worked in the Funds Industry as an employee for a decade, and then seven more years as a working mother, until 2015. She began a blog while back at work following a third maternity leave while thinking over how to manage a life of full-time work as well as her children and started writing on the blog to let off steam as well as to connect with women who were also out there and in similar situations.

Andrea named the blog Office Mum but then had a surprise when her office closed down in April of 2015. She was offered redeployment or redundancy, and decided that she would turn the blogging side project into a career for herself. She moved away from the office and started doing freelance writing for newspapers and magazines. She had plans to try it out for six months, but it worked so well that she did it for four more years until a huge change came along.

This would be taking on the world of fiction, with Andrea penning crime fiction in particular. The result would be The Other Side of the Wall, released in 2017.

The author describes herself as someone who takes notes, makes lists, keeps diaries, and takes photographs. Her blog she says became a personal record, a hobby, a soapbox, an extension of all of her cataloging. While the posts are not up as much as they were back when she was still attempting to actively navigate three young children, her job, sleepless nights, and more, she enjoys that it remains as a digital scrapbook of her life with her kids.

Andrea resides in Dun Laoghaire, a place that she loves, especially walking on the pier. It was while on the pier one morning walking that she decided that it would be a good time to start the blog. She could order her thoughts and push away the cobwebs. It was then that she pressed send on an outline that would eventually lead to her securing the book deal and getting her first novel published.

The Other Side of the Wall is the debut fiction novel to come out from Andrea Mara. If you love a good contemporary story that will keep you turning the pages until you get to the end, check out this book!

Sylvia is the main character in this story. One night she decides to look out the window and sees that a child is in the pond next door, floating with their face down. She goes quickly and looks into her neighbor’s garden, but there is no body to be found there. She tries to knock on the door but no one answers.

She has a child and wonders if the lack of sleep and the nighttime feeding is starting to affect her. She goes back to her home and thinks that her mind must be generating this image as some sort of trick. However, she does know that a local child in the area has gone missing. Could that be playing into it?

One week later, she hears through her wall a man crying. There’s a man next door who moved in recently named Sam. He meets his wife and children on weekends, but they’re away for the summer. He’s nice enough and helpful, but Sylvia also gets an off feeling about him.

Then there are little disturbances going on in the house. Her husband says that she’s imagining it, but Sylvia knows that it’s not her. There’s something on the other side of the wall that is wrong. But what is it? And can she stand to find out? Read this book to find out what happens!

One Click is the second book from Andrea Mara. If you like reading a good story, then check this book out and catch all of the twists and turns for yourself!

Lauren snaps a photo of a stranger at a beach and randomly posts it online. But she has no concept of what could happen with just one click.

Her daughters think that it’s strange that she put up a photo without consent, but then she starts getting messages about the woman in the picture. She deletes the photo, but it’s not quick enough. The messages begin picking up, making Lauren think that she should confess something to the woman.

This woman has her own story, and it could explain all the messages, but Lauren isn’t sure. Her ex starts telling her that she did this to herself by oversharing online. She also has other problems, like a tough work client popping up in strange places, her younger daughter acting strangely, and cracks showing up in her home in South Dublin.

As the messages online pick up, Lauren wonders whether she should confront her stalker. Can she keep everything from falling apart and get back to her life as normal? Read this thriller from Andrea Mara to find out!