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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 black 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. ...more

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Average rating: 4.11 · 5,497,848 ratings · 432,256 reviews · 38 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1) 4.33 avg rating — 1,287,557 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) 4.25 avg rating — 633,151 ratings — published 2023 — 54 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 4.10 avg rating — 651,768 ratings — published 2022 — 24 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 4.07 avg rating — 473,575 ratings — published 2022 — 16 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 3.95 avg rating — 381,722 ratings — published 2024 — 12 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 4.06 avg rating — 299,299 ratings — published 2021 — 23 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 3.80 avg rating — 262,206 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
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	The Perfect Son 4.12 avg rating — 196,318 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	One by One 3.95 avg rating — 183,015 ratings — published 2020 — 12 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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Freida McFadden made a comment on Shell Bell’s review of Dead Med " It is the same book revised with a different title. I put a note saying so at the top and bottom of the Amazon blurb. "
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I loved this thriller! Completely unputdownable with tons of twists and turns!
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Freida McFadden answered Te'Lor Hawkins's question: If presented with the opportunity, would you ever consider turning one of your novels into a movie or a television series? The Housemaid has been optioned for film by Hidden Pictures/Lionsgate, and The Coworker has been optioned by Sony.
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Wow, I loved this book so much! Hands down one of my favorite reads of the year! It was so different from the typical thrillers out there, and yet it had all the juicy elements that I love and was so satisfying at the end! I was grabbing my kindle to ...more
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“He has no idea this is just the beginning.”
― 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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“How are you? The three most useless words in the universe of communication. Nobody who asks that question wants to know the answer. And nobody who answers ever tells the truth. “I’m fine, Paige.”
― Freida McFadden, Never Lie

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The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

33 votes, 22.0%

Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson

24 votes, 16.0%

The Roads Chosen by Ben Carlyle

21 votes, 14.0%

Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger

17 votes, 11.3%

The Chain by Adrian McKinty

15 votes, 10.0%

We Are All the Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin

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Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

11 votes, 7.3%

The Black Echo by Michael Connelly

8 votes, 5.3%

Paper Girls by Alex Smith

6 votes, 4.0%

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