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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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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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Freida McFadden and 101 other people liked Carrie Shields's review of Dear Debbie: "𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐈 𝐝𝐨, 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠. Normal everyday housewives losing their ever lovin' sh*t (but quietly, because language, and efficiently, because dinner) is one of my abso" Read more of this review »
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“The kind with words.”
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