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#1 New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publisher's Weekly, and Amazon Charts bestselling author Freida McFadden is a practicing physician specializing in brain injury who has penned multiple Kindle bestselling psychological thrillers and medical humor novels. She lives with her family and possessed cat in a centuries-old three-story home overlooking the ocean, with staircases that creak and moan with each step, and nobody could hear you if you scream. Unless you scream really loudly, maybe.

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Average rating: 3.96 · 22,567,236 ratings · 1,762,628 reviews · 106 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1) 4.26 avg rating — 4,006,115 ratings — published 2022 — 11 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 Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2) 4.15 avg rating — 2,012,138 ratings — published 2023 — 102 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
	Never Lie 4.07 avg rating — 1,782,069 ratings — published 2022 — 88 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 Inmate 3.99 avg rating — 1,225,521 ratings — published 2022	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 Boyfriend 4.03 avg rating — 1,160,798 ratings — published 2024 — 68 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 Housemaid is Watching (The Housemaid, #3) 3.85 avg rating — 1,214,427 ratings — published 2024 — 79 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 Teacher 3.88 avg rating — 1,167,467 ratings — published 2024 — 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
	Ward D 3.96 avg rating — 769,876 ratings — published 2023 — 2 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 Locked Door 3.97 avg rating — 756,837 ratings — published 2021 — 60 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 Tenant 3.83 avg rating — 760,112 ratings — published 2025 — 4 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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New Christmas thriller release!

I'm so excited to announce that I wrote a new Christmas thriller novelette called The Gift!

What's a novelette, you ask? Great question, because literally nobody has heard of it. It's longer than a short story, but it's not quite as long as a novella. It's six chapters (plus a shocking epilogue) of total thrills and fun!

I'd be thrilled and honored if you'd check out my little novelette, which is a Read more of this blog post »

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Published on December 07, 2022 10:55 • Tags: christmas-thriller, holiday-thriller, psychological-thriller

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