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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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“What do you like to read?”
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“The kind with words.”
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“I believe that any human being is capable of terrible things if you push them hard enough.”
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The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club #2) by Richard Osman

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The Boy from the Woods (Wilde #1) by Harlan Coben

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The Perfect Son by Freida McFadden

29 votes, 22.3%

The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries #1) by Sophie Hannah

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A Gilded Death by Cecelia Tichi

8 votes, 6.2%

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