Freida McFadden Books In Order
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| The Housemaid | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Housemaid's Secret | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Housemaid Is Watching | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Housemaid's Wedding | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Chronological Order of The Housemaid Books
| The Housemaid | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Housemaid's Secret | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Housemaid's Wedding | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Housemaid Is Watching | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Dr. Jane McGill Books
| The Devil Wears Scrubs | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Devil You Know | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Psyching | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Gift | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
| The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Alibis Collection Books
| Death Row | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Small Things | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| False Note | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| The Ex-Wives Club | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| Good Neighbors | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
| The Skydivers | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Publication Order of Anthologies
Freida McFadden is a name readers of modern thrillers see often. She is a best-selling American author who also works as a physician. Her medical specialty is treating people with traumatic brain injuries. This unique background gives her a factual understanding of the human mind, which she uses to inform her fiction.
Her books are known for being entertaining and hard to put down. She has a talent for creating characters that readers can connect with quickly. The protagonists in her stories are often ordinary people placed in intense situations. This makes their choices and the resulting tension feel immediate and personal for the audience.
She crafts narratives that keep the pages turning with steady momentum. The plots are structured to deliver surprises without feeling overly complicated. One of her most successful books is called The Housemaid. It became a hit and was turned into a movie released in 2025, proving the wide appeal of her storytelling approach.
Early and Personal Life
Freida McFadden grew up in midtown Manhattan with one sibling. Both of her parents worked in medicine. She wanted to be a physician from an early age and attended a competitive New York City high school that helped build her work ethic.
She studied math at Harvard before attending medical school. While training to be a doctor, she kept writing fiction and submitting manuscripts to publishers. After medical training, she began self-publishing, and her 2013 debut drew on her experiences as a medical intern.
She now lives outside Boston with her family and practices medicine part time. Her medical background allows her to write accurate scenes. New York City often appears as a setting in her novels, as growing up there continues to influence her work.
Writing Career
McFadden began her writing career in 2013, self-publishing The Devil Wears Scrubs and building a catalog of series and standalone thrillers. Her 2022 novel The Housemaid became an international bestseller and was adapted into a 2025 film that grossed $300 million worldwide. She would quickly follow this success up with a further two sequels in that series.
She continues to publish several books each year, with other popular titles including The Inmate, Never Lie, and Ward D. Her work earned a 2023 International Thriller Writers Award for The Housemaid. That same year, The Housemaid’s Secret won a Goodreads Choice Award.
Dr. Jane McGill Series:
Dr. Jane McGill navigates the challenges of her medical career and personal life.
The Devil Wears Scrubs
New doctor Jane McGill faces drug addict patients, sleepless nights, a cruel senior resident, and a sadistic yet charming surgeon during her first medical internship month.
The Devil You Know
Dr. Jane McGill has a great job, a daughter, and a husband, but then her ex-boyfriend, the Sexy Surgeon, joins her hospital.
Prescription: Murder Series:
Medical students face suspicious deaths, and a woman must piece together memories after surviving a gunshot wound.
Suicide Med
For six years, a medical student has died annually at Suicide Med, with last year being a murder-suicide, and students wonder who is next.
Brain Damage
A woman loses everything after a bullet rips through her skull, then must piece together memories trapped in her damaged brain to find her attacker.
The Housemaid Series:
A woman takes housekeeping jobs and faces dangerous situations involving the families she works for.
The Housemaid
A housemaid cleans for a family, tries on the wife’s dress, and later discovers her attic bedroom door only locks from the outside.
The Housemaid’s Secret
A woman takes a housekeeping job, hears crying, sees blood on nightgowns, and vows to make the husband pay for his wrongs.
The Housemaid’s Wedding
A woman engaged to the man of her dreams discovers someone wants her dead before she can say her wedding vows.
The Housemaid is Watching
A woman moves her family to a new home but grows suspicious of her neighbors and a shadowy figure watching them.
Standalone Novels:
Baby City
An OB/GYN resident working in a busy New York City hospital knows that babies are unpredictable and reveal true friends during birth.
The Surrogate Mother
A woman desperate for a child accepts a generous offer from her assistant, who has dark secrets and will stop at nothing.
The Ex
Cassie believes she has found the perfect man, but his ex-girlfriend may not be as gone as she thinks.
The Perfect Son
Erika Cass’s perfect life is disrupted when detectives question her teenage son about a missing girl, and she suspects he may be involved.
The Wife Upstairs
Victoria Barnett has a perfect life until a terrible accident leaves her unable to speak or move, but her caregiver discovers she has a story to tell.
One By One
A woman’s hiking vacation with friends turns deadly as they become lost and are struck down one by one in the woods.
Want to Know a Secret?
A YouTube baker has secrets about her son, a soccer coach, and what is buried in her backyard that someone plans to expose.
The Locked Door
A surgeon whose father was a serial killer discovers one of her patients was murdered in the same unique way he killed.
Do Not Disturb
After committing an unthinkable crime, a fleeing woman takes refuge at a motel during a snowstorm, but the motel has a dark and disturbing past.
Do You Remember?
A woman wakes unable to remember the last decade, including her husband, but a text message warns her not to trust him.
The Inmate
A nurse practitioner working at a men’s prison hides her past connection to an inmate who was her high school sweetheart and is now serving a life sentence.
Never Lie
Newlyweds trapped in a remote manor during a storm discover audio transcripts that reveal the truth behind a vanished psychiatrist.
Ward D
A medical student spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward grows convinced something terrible is happening as people vanish.
The Co-Worker
When an awkward accountant fails to show up at the office, her coworker discovers she was being targeted by someone close enough to kill.
The Teacher
A math teacher knows there is more to a student-teacher affair scandal at her school than the rumors suggest.
The Boyfriend
A woman finally finds the perfect man, but she suspects he may be the one murdering young women he dates before killing them.
The Crash
Eight months pregnant and stranded during a blizzard, a woman is rescued by a couple but realizes their cabin is not a safe haven.
The Tenant
Fired from his job and unable to make mortgage payments, a man rents a room to a woman who seems perfect, but something is not right.
The Intruder
During a hurricane at her wilderness cabin, a woman finds a young girl covered in blood who has a dark secret she will kill to keep.
Dear Debbie
A woman who gave advice to other wives loses her job and discovers her husband’s secrets, so she decides it is time for payback.
The Divorce
After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, a woman fixates on his new girlfriend and uncovers dark secrets that put her life in danger.
The Witch
After losing her job and apartment, a woman returns to her family’s estate and uncovers dark secrets about a woman executed for witchcraft there.
Novellas:
The Gift
On Christmas Eve, a broke woman is offered an intriguing trade at a pawn shop so she can buy her husband the gift of his dreams.
The Widow’s Husband’s Secret Lie: A Satire
A woman attended her husband’s funeral and watched his casket lowered, but she still sees his face everywhere she goes.
Death Row
Condemned to death row for murdering her husband, a woman sees a man she is certain is him in the visiting area.
Edited Anthologies:
11 out of 10
A collection of humorous medical stories from practitioners with all profits donated to a children’s charity.
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I just started reading Freida McFadden when The Housemaid came out in the theaters. A coworker mentioned it and couldn’t wait to see the movie after reading the book. I was hooked! I can’t put her books down. I actually listen to them through my library’s digital library. If I forget my earbuds I just hold my phone close to me as I walk around the grocery store lol. I will be sad when I finish her books.
I have read all of your books, except “The Psyching” I cannot find it in print or online anywhere. How can I get to read it??
Your books are a good read! Terrific! Every page is quick moving!
Started reading Freida McFadden books since Feb 2025. 1st book was “Never Lie”,I’m starting my 15th book by Freida McFadden tonight (9/26/25). I must say I have not read these many books in 7 months plus I did read about 5 other books by authors. She is amazing.
Theresa, I am so addicted to her books too! I love that there is another medical thriller writer out there now. Freida is a very good writer, and her work engrosses me quickly.
I love Freida McFaddens books. The next ones I want to read are Suicide Med/Dead Med; Brain Damage; The Ex and Death Row. No one has these books. Not the public library or Barnes and Noble. Is there anyway that it could be opened up to being published so more people may be able to read more of her books?
Did you try Thrift Books, they often have what I am looking for, also Pango Books. Good luck
Also, try to see if your library can borrow it from nearby libraries. Doesn’t hurt to ask them. Ours borrowed a book from a library in Chicago before! I’m still shocked that happened
I just ordered Brain Damage and Dead Med on my app “Chirp”. I don’t love audio books but going on a beach vacay soon. These were also on the app for like under 4$
I’ve never been very interested with reading as a young person. I always fell asleep trying. Now as an adult, after my neighbor told me your books, I’m hooked!! Just finished The Inmate, The Boyfriend, The Teacher and Ward D.
Couldn’t put them down once I started reading them!! Four books read in four days!! Thank you for getting me to read!!
I started out with The Crash. I’ve been flying through them ever since. I Just love the twists and turns, always keeping you guessing on the ending. There were times in The Teacher that I wanted to go ahead and find the next chapter with Addie or Eve in it. I didn’t but it sure was tempting! Thank you so much for the entertainment.
I’ve Only recently started reading your books and can’t wait to read more. Just read The Teacher. Started it 2 nights ago and finished it yesterday. Could not put it down. The prologue grabbed me and I had to find out the answers. The twists and turns kept the pages turning. It’s a good thing I didn’t have to go anywhere for long and could keep coming back to it. Also enjoyed The Housemaid and now want to start from the beginning. Thank you!!!
I just started reading your book about a month ago & have read 7 so far just LOVE everyone of them!!!!!
never a predictable ending
my 2 daughters and I “wait” for your books to come out. We love your writing…keep it up
My first read The Housemaid was one I had to keep reading. Will look into more of your books. Easy read and visual.
My niece suggested I start reading these books from this writer. Read housemaids series and The Crash. Next is The Boyfriend, enjoy reading now more than ever!
The Boyfriend was really good. Louise will love it.Was my 1st read by her. I don’t know what to pick next.
When I was looking at your books in a book shops one day a lady who was also looking said to me she is a great writer and pointed to one of your books so I did and now read 7 loved them, you get into the book straight away unlike others where you don’t normally until quite a way in,now want to read all your books,brilliant.thank you so much.
I have read and loved everything you have ever written. Your imagination is phenomenal, and I am amazed at the wonderful variety in your plots and characters. I consider myself an accomplished reader, but I have yet to guess correctly how things are going to turn out in your novels.
That said, I was disappointed to find seven grammar or spelling errors in the Kindle version of Baby City, and I wonder if you have a website where I can report my findings so the errors can be corrected. (And if you’re in the market for a proof reader, let me know. 😉
Thanks for giving me many truly delightful reading hours.
Just wow , I’m hooked on your books . Really good read
At one of the very first book clubs I joined in our village , I was introduced to the housemaid series . I’ve been hooked from then on in . Love love love your books. Can’t put them done and cant stop buying them . Well done .
I got three of your books for Christmas now I buy any I can find I have loved every one that I have read so far.
I have read 17 of her books in less than 3 months. I am an avid reader, and ALWAYS searching for a great author, I hit the jackpot with Freida McFadden; she’s an AMAZING writer. Thank you for these page turning books I just can’t put down!!! I tell and share mt excitement with all my friends and family. She has me going from an avid reader,to a voracious reader; can’t get enough of her spellbinding books.
Hi, I just discovered Frieda’s books, started with the housemaid series, are any of her other books a series or are they independent from each other? I love her style of explaining the twists at the end, I hope the rest are written the same way!
The list above is correct 🙂 Housemaid series and her Dr. Jane McGill series are her only atual series at this time
Just read In Mate whilst in Cabo Verde was brilliant read now just finished The Surrogate Mother also read Housewives books all of them the best Author love your books x Ika x 😘 From the UK 🇬🇧
I have twenty six of your books. I enjoyed reading each one. You have made the endings with such a twist. It is hard to believe but good reading. Can’t wait to get the next two in 2025.
I have read 20 of your books. Never have I ever been so engrossed by an author until you. Your books are hard to put down. I have 3 more to get while I patiently wait for the newest book. I even have my DIL hooked on you, she is reading the second book in the housemaid series and can’t wait to start the third!! Thank you for writing such good books!!!
Just read The Housemaid!! LOVED it! Getting as many of your books as fast as I can!
My sister, niece and myself are ordering one book after another. We have loved all of the ones we’ve read and can’t wait to get the next ones.
I have read 12 of your books. I love them all so much, won’t read any other arthhors books unless I run out looking for another one of yours. From Paris, Tennessee
WOW!! I’m a superfan of your books. Am an avid reader and have read almost all of your books, just finished The Boyfriend – what a twist !!! Love the ease of your writing style ( and humor)
Sharing knowledge of you with friends and my book club. Favorite was The teacher, your surprises never disappoint. Looking forward to The Crash. Keep ’em coming