The Highest-Rated Freida McFadden Books, According to Goodreads
Freida McFadden is a very accomplished #1 bestselling author on The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon chart lists. McFadden is also a practicing physician specializing in brain injury. She is an acclaimed author of popular psychological thrillers and humor novels, recipient of the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Paperback and is a winner of the Goodreads Choice Award. We’ve lined up the top ten highest-rated Freida McFadden mysteries that Goodreads reviews recommend.
Once hired on the spot by the affluent Winchester family as a housekeeper, Millie Calloway relocates to their mansion and takes up residence in the attic bedroom. For Millie, who has been homeless and has a criminal record, this job represents a chance for a new beginning in her life.
As time goes on, she learns that the Winchester’s are dealing with troubles and distress, she becomes entangled in their personal lives and her housekeeping job becomes a greater problem for her than she ever imagined.
Millie is employed by the exceedingly wealthy Mr. Douglas Garrick, a man known for his
demanding and arrogant nature, with a set of strict rules she must adhere to on the job.
One rule is to not bother his wife Wendy who is ailing and does not come out of her
bedroom. However, when Millie hears Wendy’s distressing cries one day, she opens the
door to find Wendy battered and bleeding. Determined to help Wendy escape from her
abusive husband, Millie vows to act; she is willing to risk her own safety.
A high school girl has vanished from their quiet neighborhood, and the police suspect the worst. Erika’s teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive.Erika has always sensed something… different in her seemingly perfect oldest child. He’s charming, smart, and popular, but mothers have the best instincts, and Erika knows there’s more to her son than meets the eye. She wants to believe he’s innocent, but as the evidence mounts, she can’t deny the truth—Liam may have done the unthinkable.
Tricia and Ethan are newlyweds embarking on the exciting journey of finding their dream home, their plans taking an unexpected turn when they find themselves snowed in by a winter storm while viewing a remote manor.
From the moment they step inside, it feels oddly unsettling. The living room features a large portrait of a woman with piercing green eyes that watches them from every angle.
A secret room is discovered, filled with transcripts belonging to the patients of Adrienne Hale, a psychologist who mysteriously vanished without a trace.
Is this her home? Did she die here? And are they truly alone in this eerie house?
The answers might be more disturbing than they ever imagined.
Brooke Sullivan, a nurse practitioner, takes a new job in a maximum-security prison after returning to her hometown a decade later. The twist is that her ex-boyfriend from her teenage years, Shane Nelson, is currently an inmate. To make matters worse, she played a part in his imprisonment by providing testimony on the heinous crimes he was
accused of.
She’s looking for the perfect man. He’s looking for the perfect victim. Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She’s seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can’t shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot.
Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect. He’s charming, handsome, and works as a doctor at a local hospital. Sydney is swept off her feet.
Then the brutal murder of a young woman–the latest in a string of deaths across the coast–confounds police. The primary suspect? A mystery man who dates his victims before he kills them.
Sydney should feel safe. After all, she is dating the guy of her dreams. But she can’t shake her own suspicions that the perfect man may not be as perfect as he seems. Because someone is watching her every move, and if she doesn’t get to the truth, she’ll be the killer’s next victim…
Ward D is the hospital’s mental health unit and as a medical student, Amy is required to gain experience on the floor. But little do her colleagues know it may force her to confront a past she’s fought hard to forget.
The night starts. The countdown begins.
As the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within the ward’s tightly secured walls. When patients and staff start to vanish without a trace, it becomes clear that everyone on the unit is in grave danger. Amy never wanted to spend the night on Ward D.
Now she might not make it out alive.
Blake Porter is riding high, until he’s not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone he shares with his fiancée, he’s desperate to make ends meet.
Enter Whitney. Beautiful, charming, down-to-earth, and looking for a room to rent. She’s exactly what Blake’s looking for. Or is she? Because something isn’t quite right. The neighbors start treating Blake differently. The smell of decay permeates his home, no matter how hard he scrubs. Strange noises jar him awake in the middle of the night. And soon Blake fears someone knows his darkest secrets…
Danger lives right at home, and by the time Blake realizes it, it’ll be far too late. The trap is already set.
Eve has a good life. She gets up each day, gets a kiss from her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except…
Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher affair, with one student, Addie, at its center. But Eve knows there is far more to these ugly rumors than meets the eye.
Addie can’t be trusted. She lies. She hurts people. She destroys lives. At least, that’s what everyone says.
But nobody knows the real Addie. Nobody knows the secrets that could destroy her. And Addie will do anything to keep it quiet.
“You must be our new neighbors!” Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my daughter’s hand and smile back: but the second Mrs. Lowell sees my husband a strange expression crosses her face. In that moment I make a promise. We finally have a family home. My past is far, far behind us. And I’ll do anything to keep it that way…
I used to clean other people’s houses–now, I can’t believe this home is actually mine. The charming kitchen, the quiet cul-de-sac, the huge yard where my kids can play. My husband and I saved for years to give our children the life they deserve.Even though I’m wary of our new neighbor Mrs. Lowell, when she invites us over for dinner it’s our chance to make friends. Her maid opens the door wearing a white apron, her hair in a tight bun. I know exactly what it’s like to be in her shoes. But her cold stare gives me chills…
The Lowells’ maid isn’t the only strange thing on our street. I’m sure I see a shadowy figure watching us. My husband leaves the house late at night. And when I meet a woman who lives across the way, her words chill me to the bone: Be careful of your neighbors.Did I make a terrible mistake moving my family here?
I thought I’d left my darkest secrets behind. But could this quiet suburban street be the most dangerous place of all?
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