Sara Foster

SARA FOSTER writes page-turning psychological suspense with strong female leads. Her latest novel, When She Was Gone (2025), begins when an au pair and two small children vanish from a remote Australian beach. It's a race-against-time thriller, exploring themes around misogyny, wealth, power and control.

Sara is also the author of the acclaimed dystopian thriller The Hush, which she wrote as part of her PhD, studying maternal representations in dystopian fiction. She has seven more psychological suspense stories: The Deceit (novella), You Don’t Know Me, The Hidden Hours, All That is Lost Between Us, Shallow Breath, Beneath the Shadows and Come Back to Me. Two of her novels have been optioned for television, and You Don’t Know Me was adapted into a chart-topping drama podcast series by Listnr.

Sara lives in Perth, Western Australia, with her husband and daughters, as well as two cats, a cavoodle and a bearded dragon.