Lisa M. Matlin Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Lisa M. Matlin is a successful published author. Before she focused on writing stories, she was writing songs in a band as their guitarist.

She resides in Melbourne, Australia, where she hangs out with her golden retriever. If you’re looking for the author, she can probably be found re-watching The Walking Dead or else trying not to laugh at her own jokes.

Lisa is a passionate advocate for mental health as well as the number one fan of your dog. Her debut novel is titled The Stranger Upstairs and was selected as a Book of the Month. Her second novel to be released is titled The Only One Who Knows.

The Stranger Upstairs is a 2023 novel by Lisa M. Matlin. If you have been keeping your eyes open for an interesting new fiction work to read, be sure to give this book a try!

A social media influencer has a secret past and they end up purchasing what is known as a murder house to take it on and renovate it into something that they’ll love. But in the process of buying it and moving in, the online entrepreneur may end up taking on more than she ever bargained for and discovering that there is something else behind the peeling wallpaper in a gothic debut novel that is going to have readers flipping the pages excitedly to find out what happens next.

Main character Sarah Slade is doing her best to start over. She is the new owner of the Black Wood House, which is infamous for being the scene of a horrible murder-suicide crime. She has every intention of taking this fixer-upper and taking it over, doing her best to try and reach a new audience in the process on her lifestyle blog. If it distracts her from her marriage being in the gutter, so much the better.

As Sarah paints over the past of the house, she knows just as well as anyone would that just a new facade is not going to fix every secret and magically make it all go away. She starts getting suspicious when the builders start acting strangely and even going through weird accidents. Sarah understands that there is only a certain amount of time that she can keep sleeping in the bedroom with the bloodstains on the floor and deal with the strange footsteps that she hears above in the attic.

Then strange notes start showing up everywhere. Sarah starts to think that there is something or someone out there that wants to hurt her. It could be the neighbors, it could be her husband, and it could even be the house personally. But the more that she remodels and works on the house, known as Black Wood House, the more that the house seems to be angered by the intrusions.

As time goes on, her life only gets more out of control. On top of that, her own sense of reality seems to fluctuate as well. She has come up with lies to hide her personal secrets, but in the process of it all, she has to wonder whether it’s actually worth it. She has secret doubts that this house may lead to her unraveling. Will it be the thing that is her undoing, or can she come out on top? Read this fascinating first novel to find out!

The Only One Who Knows is a 2026 novel by Lisa M. Matlin. If you have a penchant for interesting fiction reads, be sure to check this story out and see what you think.

A television news reporter who has failed in her line of work and likes shark fishing decides to go back to her hometown. The timing is unfortunate because just as she is coming back more bodies start washing to the shore in a suspense novel that is going to have readers turning the pages avidly to find out what happens next.

Minnow Greenwood used to be known as the number one morning show host in Melbourne and was much loved by the viewers. Now she has returned to her hometown, the small town of Kangaroo Bay. After a horrible episode she doesn’t see coming, she doesn’t have any other option left to her but to join her brother in shark fishing, the family business.

Minnow is an insomniac, and for someone like her, the work has a thrill to it. There is something interesting and alluring about the dark water out there at night. Something that is exciting and fitting. She even doesn’t mind connecting with her brother some more, who is one of the few people in life who has ever been able to see her for herself. The last thing that she ever saw coming was a dead body washing up on the beach.

Kangaroo Bay has not been friendly towards the tourists that invade it, and in the process of being located where it is, it has been the home of a few shark attacks. There isn’t much sympathy that is shown to this swimmer.

But then the media shows that the victim was declared missing weeks before this and was even likely dead before they went into the water. Then a journalist inside of Minnow comes back to life and she finds out that for over four decades, there have been a regular number of people in the area who have gone missing. This includes her own father, who went missing a decade ago.

This could be her shot at getting back her journalistic career and also to find out what actually happened to her father. As Minnow looks into the case of the tourists that have gone missing as well as the mystery of what happened to her father, she gradually starts to understand that there is someone out there who really wants to keep all of these secrets hidden.

Just as she feels she’s getting more understanding, another body shows up. Can she get to the bottom of all this? Will Minnow be able to get her life back on track as well as get some much-needed closure over what happened to her father? Read this fascinating fictional work by Lisa M. Matlin to find out!