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Alex North

Born 1976
Alex North was born in Leeds, England, where he continues to live with his wife and son. He is an award-winning and best-selling crime fiction author, known for works such as The Whisper Man.
On LuvemBooks, we've reviewed The Whisper Man.
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The Whisper Man

4.3/5

reader rating · 28,375 ratings

Alex North's debut novel, The Whisper Man, is a New York Times bestseller published by Celadon Books that intertwines a cold-case serial killer investigation with a story of grief, fatherhood, and a child's unnerving connection to something he cannot explain — earning starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist and an Editor's Pick designation from The New York Times.

Reviewed Apr 28, 2026

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Elle Gray

Mystery
Thriller
Fiction
Elle Gray’s The Chosen Girl shares North’s focus on grieving investigators, unsettling small-town dread, and serial predators whose past crimes echo into present-day cases.
6 books reviewed
The Forgotten Girls
A Perfect Wife
I See You
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Alex Michaelides

Mystery
Fiction
Thriller
Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient offers cerebral psychological suspense focused on buried trauma, mirroring the dark, character-driven themes of Alex North's crime fiction.
1 book reviewed
The Silent Patient
Karin Slaughter

Karin Slaughter

Mystery
Fiction
Thriller
Karin Slaughter's Pretty Girls matches Alex North's dark, unsettling tone with an old child-abduction case resurfacing in a small town alongside deep family trauma.
2 books reviewed
We Are All Guilty Here
Pretty Girls
Lisa Jewell

Lisa Jewell

Mystery
Fiction
Thriller
Lisa Jewell's Then She Was Gone shares a British setting, a missing child investigation, and dark family secrets intertwined with grief and obsession.
2 books reviewed
Then She Was Gone
None of This Is True
R

Riley Sager

Mystery
Thriller
Riley Sager's Home Before Dark echoes North's gothic dread, featuring a house with a violent history and a central parent-child relationship shaped by family grief.
2 books reviewed
The Only One Left
Home Before Dark
Gillian Flynn

Gillian Flynn

Mystery
Thriller
Fiction
Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl shares the same sustained psychological menace and unease of not knowing who to trust, driven by unreliable narrators and shocking twists.
1 book reviewed
Gone Girl