These Freida McFadden Books Will Turn You Into a Freida McFan

McFadden's newest thriller follows a former housemaid who's just moved with her husband and children to the ideal suburban neighborhood. Everything seems perfect until her new neighbor, Mrs. Lowell, seems to recognize her husband—and it's not a pleasant memory.

That's far from the only odd thing happening on their new street. And our narrator has her own secrets, too.

When Brooke Sullivan was hired as the new nurse practitioner at a men’s maximum-security prison, she was informed of three rules: treat everyone with respect, never reveal any personal information, and never EVER become too friendly with any of the inmates. But rules are made to be broken, and Brooke broke them before even setting foot on the grounds. 

Shane Nelson, one of the most dangerous and notorious inmates at the institution, was Brooke’s high school sweetheart. Now he's a star quarterback-turned-brutal-murderer who’s now serving a life sentence. And Brooke’s testimony is the reason he’s locked up.

Eve and Nate Bennett are a married couple who both teach at Caseham High. Every morning Eve wakes up to get a kiss from her husband before each heading off to work. She has a charming, handsome husband and she knows it—which is why she’s so paranoid about his late nights at work and all the young women at school who have crushes on him.

It doesn’t help that the school has a history of inappropriate student-teacher relationships. One student in particular, Addie, got a man fired last year for inappropriate behavior—or at least, that’s what the rumors say. But Eve knows there’s more going on than meets the eye. Addie is a liar who destroys lives with no remorse. 

But no one really knows Addie. And she’ll do whatever it takes to keep it that way.

Millie is a recent parolee who was living out of her car when she finally landed a job as a live-in housemaid for the Winchesters. Just excited to have a job and a bed, she’s excited to start anew, but quickly finds that the Winchesters’ past is more dangerous than her own…

Every day she cleans the house from top to bottom, picks their daughter up from the bus stop, and cooks a magnificent feast before returning to her room to eat alone. She tries to ignore how difficult Nina is to work for; how she makes messes just to watch Millie clean them up, how she spreads strange rumors about her own daughter, and how much more broken her handsome husband Andrew seems every day.

Just once, Millie wanted to know what it would feel like to own that huge house, living the perfect life and waking up to Andrew every morning. She only tried on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once…but once was all it took. That’s how Millie finds out her attic bedroom only locks from the outside, not the inside. But the Winchesters know less about Millie than she knows about them–and they have no clue what she’s capable of.

Eleven-year-old Nora Davis’ life was changed forever the day the police arrived at her door and arrested her father for murdering women in their basement. Decades later, her father is in jail and Nora is a successful surgeon with a much quieter life. Nobody knows about her past, and she intends to keep it that way. 

But then one of Nora’s young female patients is found murdered, and in quite a familiar fashion. Someone knows about her past. And that someone wants Nora to take the fall for the crime. But she’s not a murderer like her father, and the police have nothing on her…as long as they don’t look in her basement. Maybe the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree after all.

Quinn Alexander has committed an unbelievable crime. So naturally, she must flee to avoid spending a lifetime in prison. She grabs her passport and starts toward the border before anyone can figure out what she’s done. 

But an unexpected snowstorm ruins her plans and forces her off the road and into the isolated Baxter Motel for the night. A little perturbed, she’s grateful for the place to stay, especially at the cheap price the owner offered her. But the motel is not the safe haven it seemed to be from the outside. It harbors a dark and disturbing past, complete with the stalking of the owner’s ailing wife from the run-down house across the street, always watching. 

Quinn must leave in the morning to get back on track to freedom. But only if she can survive the night.

April Masterson, Youtube baking sensation, has tons of baking secrets, like the secret to baking the gooiest brownies or the secret to mouthwatering key lime pie squares. But April also has other secrets, as in, non-baking-related secrets. But she’s not so open to sharing those. 

These secrets are more in the vein of where her son went when he snuck out of the house, what she and the local soccer coach were doing behind closed doors, or what she has buried in her backyard. But no need to fret; the narrator of Want to Know a Secret? will reveal them to you.

Never Lie is a book about therapy that will probably make you need therapy, but also make you never want to go ever again…so read it if you dare. Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are on the house hunt, and visit the remote manor previously owned by renowned psychiatrist Dr. Adrienne Hale, who mysteriously vanished four years ago. But a large blizzard snows them in and they’re forced to stay the night. 

Tricia, while looking for a book to read until the storm subsides, accidentally discovers a secret room. It just so happens to contain audio recordings of every single patient Dr. Hale ever had. Much more interesting than a book, she stays up late into the night, listening to them all, putting the pieces to her bizarre disappearance together. But then she reaches the final cassette–the one with the horrifying truth.

Perfect families are never as they seem behind the curtains. But Erika Cass never considered that until two detectives showed up at her door. A high school girl from Erika’s neighborhood seems to have vanished—and Erika’s son Liam is the last person to have seen her alive. 

She wants to believe him innocent, but she’s always suspected something dark about her oldest son; and as the evidence mounts against him, it becomes harder and harder to think he has nothing to do with the murder. So the question remains: how far will she go to protect her son?

Victoria Barnett has the perfect life: great career, attentive and handsome husband, a beautiful suburban home with plans to fill it with children. But then she’s involved in a terrible accident, resulting in her being unable to walk, speak, or feed and dress herself. 

Her husband hires Sylvia Robinson to help keep her confined solely to the top floor of her house and under 24-hour care. But though Victoria is unable to speak, Sylvia discovers that there’s a story behind the accident…and it’s all written down in Victoria’s hidden diary. And the contents are disturbing. 

Foretelling exactly what the title states, Brain Damage is the story of Dr. Charly McKenna, who has finally gotten everything she’s ever wanted after years of tedious work. Her dermatology career is skyrocketing, her spacious New York apartment has a great view of Central Park, and her husband is a handsome lawyer. Check, check, checkity-check. 

But then she’s shot in the head one night, ripping through the right side of her skull, leaving her with a terrible brain injury. As she struggles to heal, and struggles even more to remember the details of that night, she realizes that all the memories are trapped on the side of her brain that have been blown to bits. But she must start to put the pieces together so she can identify the man who tried to kill her before he comes back to finish the job.