David Bell

David Bell

3 Series

David Bell is a USA Today bestselling author of suspense novels, whose work has been translated into numerous languages. In 2013, he received the Prix Polar International de Cognac for best crime novel by an international author. He is also an associate professor of English and directs the MFA program in creative writing at Western Kentucky University.

In David Bell's standalone novel, "The Girl in the Woods," Diana Greene attempts to escape her troubled past—her sister's disappearance, her mother's illness, and haunting visions of a moonlit clearing with buried human bones. Her past resurfaces when a mysterious woman offers to reveal her sister's fate if Diana helps find the woman's missing daughter. As Diana delves into the town's secrets, another girl vanishes, and her visions intensify. Uncovering the town's buried truths, Diana edges closer to solving multiple missing persons cases. Her investigation leads her to the dark, violent foundation upon which the town was built.

Standalone Novels

The Condemned

(2008)

The Girl in the Woods

(2008)

Cemetery Girl

(2011)

The Hiding Place

(2012)

Never Come Back / Gone for Good

(2013)

The Forgotten Girl

(2014)

Somebody I Used to Know

(2015)

Since She Went Away

(2016)

Bring Her Home

(2017)

Somebody's Daughter

(2018)

Layover

(2019)

The Request

(2020)

Kill All Your Darlings

(2021)

The Finalists

(2022)

She's Gone

(2022)

Try Not to Breathe

(2023)

Storm Warning

(2024)

Bibliomysteries

The Book of Virtue

(2012)(By: Ken Bruen)

Pronghorns of the Third Reich

(2012)(By: C.J. Box)

The Book Thing

(2012)(By: Laura Lippman)

The Book Case

(2012)(By: Nelson DeMille)

An Acceptable Sacrifice

(2012)(By: Jeffery Deaver)

Death Leaves a Bookmark

(2012)(By: William Link)

The Final Testament

(2013)(By: Peter Blauner)

Rides a Stranger

(2013)

The Long Sonata of the Dead

(2013)(By: Andrew Taylor)

The Book of Ghosts

(2013)(By: Reed Farrel Coleman)

The Compendium of Srem

(2014)(By: F. Paul Wilson)

What's in a Name?

(2014)(By: Thomas H. Cook)

Remaindered

(2014)(By: Peter Lovesey)

The Sequel

(2014)(By: R.L. Stine)

The Gospel of Sheba

(2014)(By: Lyndsay Faye)

Book Club

(2014)(By: Loren D. Estleman)

The Nature of My Inheritance

(2014)(By: Bradford Morrow)

It's in the Book

(2014)(By: Max Allan Collins,Mickey Spillane)

The Scroll

(2014)(By: Anne Perry)

The Book of the Lion

(2015)(By: Thomas Perry)

The Little Men

(2015)(By: Megan Abbott)

Condor in the Stacks

(2015)(By: James Grady)

Mystery, Inc.

(2015)(By: Joyce Carol Oates)

Every Seven Years

(2015)(By: Denise Mina)

From the Queen

(2015)(By: Carolyn Hart)

From the Queen

(2015)(By: Carolyn Hart)

The Travelling Companion

(2016)(By: Ian Rankin)

Citadel

(2016)(By: Stephen Hunter)

Reconciliation Day

(2016)(By: Christopher Fowler)

Dead Dames Don't Sing

(2016)(By: John Harvey)

The Haze

(2016)(By: James W. Hall)

Hoodoo Harry

(2017)(By: Joe R. Lansdale)

The Pretty Little Box

(2018)(By: Charles Todd)

Seven Years

(2018)(By: Peter Robinson)

The Hemingway Valise

(2018)(By: Robert Olen Butler)

The Last Honest Horse Thief

(2018)(By: Michael Koryta)

The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository

(2018)(By: John Connolly)

The Girl Who Did Say No

(2020)(By: David Handler)

The Traitor

(2022)(By: Martin Edwards)

The Dark Door

(2022)(By: Lisa Unger)

The Honeymoon Trap

(2022)(By: Peter Swanson)

Anthologies

Commutability

(2010)

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