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Carter Wilson

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Carter Wilson is the Publishers Weekly and USA Today bestselling author of ten award-winning psychological thrillers. His works have earned starred reviews from all major trade publications, have been optioned for television and film, and his 2025 release Tell Me What You Did was selected by Barnes & Noble as a national monthly pick. Carter is also the host of the Making It Up podcast and founder of the Unbound Writer company, which provides coaching services, writing retreats, and online classes. He lives in Erie, Colorado..

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Average rating: 3.69 · 20,953 ratings · 4,051 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	Tell Me What You Did 3.85 avg rating — 6,709 ratings — published 2025 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dead Girl in 2A 3.48 avg rating — 3,864 ratings — published 2019 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Neighbor 3.46 avg rating — 3,289 ratings — published 2022 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mister Tender's Girl 3.72 avg rating — 2,605 ratings — published 2018 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dead Husband 3.67 avg rating — 1,554 ratings — published 2021 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Comfort of Black 3.89 avg rating — 881 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Father She Went to Find 3.75 avg rating — 829 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boy in the Woods 3.71 avg rating — 623 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revelation 4.06 avg rating — 491 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Final Crossing 4.16 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Twenty-one years ago, it was my brand-new agent who told me I had written a thriller. Cool! I thought. Followed by, what’s a thriller?

I had no business writing a book. I had no training. No English degree. Knew nothing about books other than I enjoyed reading them. All I knew is I had a story to tell, and that story was apparently a thriller. Now, ten published books later, I have a better idea wh

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Carter Wilson wrote a new blog post QR Codes in TELL ME WHAT YOU DID There are four QR codes in my latest thriller Tell Me What You Did. Three of these codes contains video scenes from the book, and the final code is a Read more of this blog post »
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Carter Wilson and 2 other people liked Matt S Johnson's review of The Father She Went to Find: "This was a great book. I loved every paragraph, every sentence and every word of this masterpiece! I read it in 12 hours, which is a lot for me to do! It had everything and more laid out in the novel! I sure hope There is more to come from this autho" Read more of this review »
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Carter Wilson and 6 other people liked Gatorman's review of The Father She Went to Find: "Despite the dopey title, this is one of the best books of the year, a moving and thrilling journey of Penny, an acquired savant who leaves the comfort of the special school she's been in for many years to brave the real world and try to find her fath" Read more of this review »
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Carter Wilson and 4 other people liked Ian's review of The Father She Went to Find: "What can I say about The father she went to find? What I can say is that this book was simply wonderful and everything I would want in a book. Hope, despair, longing for happiness, loveable characters, and it takes place (in part) in my home state! I" Read more of this review »
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“We never really know how others view us, but the one certain thing is that it's rarely how we expect.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

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“See, that’s the thing about trauma. You never get to quit it. You never get to walk away from it and rediscover the innocence and joy you felt just before The Thing happened.”
― Carter Wilson, Tell Me What You Did

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“The concept of tomorrow is an illusion, a sweeping gesture of time. Marketing.”
― Carter Wilson, Mister Tender's Girl

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