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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: 3.99 · 16,946,695 ratings · 1,331,206 reviews · 67 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1) 4.28 avg rating — 3,271,322 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2) 4.17 avg rating — 1,618,284 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	Never Lie 4.08 avg rating — 1,444,940 ratings — published 2022 — 70 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 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,025,851 ratings — published 2022 — 43 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 3.89 avg rating — 965,897 ratings — published 2024 — 57 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 Boyfriend 4.03 avg rating — 923,226 ratings — published 2024 — 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
	The Housemaid is Watching (The Housemaid, #3) 3.86 avg rating — 945,837 ratings — published 2024 — 66 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 3.98 avg rating — 623,676 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	Ward D 3.96 avg rating — 599,403 ratings — published 2023 — 19 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 Coworker 3.74 avg rating — 565,257 ratings — published 2023 — 39 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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“What do you like to read?”
“Books.”
“What kind of books?”
“The kind with words.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

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“I believe that any human being is capable of terrible things if you push them hard enough.”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie

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“He has no idea this is just the beginning.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

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November 2022 Poll

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Which Crime, Mystery or Thriller would you like to read in November?

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

33 votes, 22.1%

Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson

24 votes, 16.1%

The Roads Chosen by Ben Carlyle

21 votes, 14.1%

Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger

17 votes, 11.4%

The Chain by Adrian McKinty

15 votes, 10.1%

We Are All the Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin

15 votes, 10.1%