Elle Marr

The Missing Sister, Elle Marr's first novel, appeared in April 2020 and ranked among Amazon's best-selling ebooks that year. Shayna Darby flies to Paris after her estranged twin Angela is recovered from the Seine, then finds a coded note in Angela's flat: alive, trust no one. The Family Bones, from 2023, is built differently. Olivia Eriksen, a psychology doctoral candidate at UC Davis with an online following built on discussing her relatives' psychiatric history, attends a family reunion at a remote Oregon resort to gather material for a dissertation on psychopathy. A storm cuts the party off, a relative dies, and a parallel thread follows a podcaster, Birdie Tan, working a decade-old disappearance. Marr grew up in Sacramento, took her degree at UC San Diego and a master's at the Sorbonne in Paris, and now writes in Oregon. Her thrillers centre AAPI characters.