Karen Dionne

#1 Internationally Bestselling Thriller Author

Karen’s psychological suspense set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula wilderness has won awards and landed on bestseller lists around the world.

Watch for the movie based on her novel, The Marsh King’s Daughter, starring Daisy Ridley and Ben Mendelsohn coming in 2023!

"Dionne is proving to be one of the finest suspense writers working today.”

Karin Slaughter New York Times and internationally bestselling thriller author

News

Keynote speaker!

January 14, 2023

The Michigan Notable Books program sponsored by the Library of Michigan to honor books with a Michigan connection

More Behind-the-Scenes Movie Pics!

August 6, 2022

Daisy Ridley recently posted an assortment of behind the scenes pictures from The Marsh King’s Daughter movie to

The Wicked Sister is a Michigan Notable Book!

May 1, 2022

Each year, the Michigan Notable Book list sponsored by the Library of Michigan features 20 books published during

Inspiration

In a rave review, the New York Times Book Review wrote of The Marsh King’s Daughter: “When Dionne describes the swamp maples that make a cabin invisible from the air, or the way one digs chicory taproots, then washes, dries and grinds them to make a coffee substitute, it seems effortless, plain that her fluency has a deeper source than Wikipedia.”

Click through to find out how Karen came to know so much about homesteading in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula wilderness!

March Events

March 5, 7 PM ET – The Back Room: Bestselling Suspense with Lyn Liao Butler, Eli Cranor, Adele Parks, and Shelby Van Pelt

March 19, 7 PM ET – The Back Room: Family Matters with Johnny Compton, Julie Carrick Dalton, Zoje Stage, and Stacy Willingham