Tucson Festival of Books

Kaira Rouda (she/her)


Kaira Rouda is the USA Today and No. 1 Amazon bestselling author of "We Were Never Friends." Her novels have been selected by Library Reads, Amazon and Apple books editors as Best Books of the Month, Most Anticipated by Zibby Media, and Strand magazine’s and Suspense magazine’s Best Book of the Year. She lives in California.

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Awards: Silver Falchion for Best Suspense Novel of the Year 2022; Zibby Award for Best Beach Read 2023


Books:
We Were Never Friends
A Novel
Mystery / Thrillers
Sourcebooks, Incorporated
January 2026
ISBN 9781464244995
288 pages

Jill Is Not Happy
Mystery / Thrillers
Penzler Publishers
June 2025
ISBN 9781613166079
312 pages