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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Frieda,
Attended your virtual talk on June 13 2024.
Learned many interesting things about your writing. Your books
are impossible to put down once they are started.
Just finished your new one The Housemaid is Watching. I read it in 2
Days. If I didn’t have to sleep it would have been 1 day. I have read 4 of your books and pledge this will be the summer of Frieda McFadden where I
Get to read them all.Your books are fabulous and I hope you have already
Started the next one!
I’ve read the two housemaid books OMG amazing books. Pre ordered the third one in June release. Fantastic author. Narration brilliant.
Just read The Housemaid in two days-what a brilliant book ,love it,a real page turner cant wait to read The Housemaids Secret
I should have never picked up the first book, Housemaid. I skipped all my errands and chores to read this book from the start to the finish. Kept me on the edge of my seat. With most books you can sort of figure out the ending. Not with this one. So many twists and turns. What a great book. I am reading CoWorker now and have ordered 3 more books by this same author.
I love your books so much! I read Brain Dead! That was so great! I laughed so much! I realize some people may think I have a sick sense of humor (maybe I do)! I was so amazed about how spot on you are. I have had friends that have had Brain Damage from various accidents, some mild and some not so mild, but understanding and humor have got us through it!
I just finished Housemaid AND Housemaid’s Secret! Oh my goodness! Both are fantastic. So easy to read and you just cannot put them down once you start. Bought The Coworker and cannot wait to start reading it.
I read the Housemaid and it was one of the best thrillers I have read in a long time. I had to order the Housemaid’s Secret and am waiting on that one. In the meantime, Walmart had the CoWorker.
Not as happy with the Coworker. No twists and thrills. I had figured out the ending before I was halfway through the book.
It was a good read but nowhere near the thrill of
Housemaid.
I would give Housemaid an 8 (can’t give it a 10 as it is the first book by McFadden I have read). But Coworker would rate a 2-3.
My first book was Housemaid. I would rate it an 8 since it is my first book by McFadden. I just finished the Coworker today. I had figured out the ending before I was halfway through the book. It just didn’t have the same twists and thrills.
I would give it a 2-3
I don’t want to give away spoilers – but what I hated about The Coworker was the twist was telegraphed way ahead of time (person knowing the address) and I thought it was a red herring but hope – that was actually the twist.
In the past week I have read:
Never Lie
The Inmate
One by One
The Perfect Son
AMAZING ENDINGS!! I think The Inmate was my absolute favorite. I cannot wait to read more. Your books are just amazing, I cannot put them down.
Mind to even the housemaids were also good
I just read The Housemaid. First one of your books. OMG! Could not put it down! I immediately ordered the next one. I will definitely read ALL your books now! Love them!!
Same here. I loved the Housemaid and then read the second one. Will definitively be reading more.
I love love your books . Started them a few month ago and have read at least seven. Reading the Surrogate Mother now , what a fun read. I can’t put your books down. I am afraid I will run out of your books and won’t know what to do. Keep writing your books are the best. I have recommended them to all my friends and family. Thanks for the entertainment.
I “used to have” another favorite author UNTIL I read one of McFaddens books! I have read almost all of them & seriously don’t know what I am going to do now. No other author holds my attention like McFaddens. Although I would like her to write lengthier books o I don’t finish them in 1 day. Lol
I feel the same. What will I read once I read all freidas books?
I have a long list of great standalone thriller authors 🙂 I’d recommend B.A. Paris and Shari Lapena next
I have read now 12 of your books and I can never put them down. I love them all you are the best and now my absolute favorite author. I just finished the new book the Housemaid Secret so awesome and now I am reading the Ex.
Bought some of your books quite awhile ago but didn’t start reading them until a few weeks ago. LOVE THEM!! I have read The Perfect Son, The Locked Door, The Inmate, The Gift and every one of them kept me in suspense. I have never read so many books in such a short time period in my life. I love your style of writing!! Will be reading more books soon and can’t wait for the new ones to come out too. Keep up the great suspenseful writing. You are now one of my favorite authors next to David Baldacci and James Patterson!
Read Wife Upstairs fantastic book then to follow with Housemaid made be a BIG time fan of yours. Only have one left havent read please keep writing-fast hate to be without a book of yours to read!
I just finished NEVER LIE. This is one of the very best books I’ve read. But then again, so was THE HOUSE MAID. I was cocky & thought I had both figured out, but NO! You are a fantastic writer
Freida, I have now read everything you have written. I call you “the lunatic author”, that has made me addicted to reading your books. You are awesome.
I just finished “The Housemaid.” I loved it! I started reading it on Tuesday and finished it on Wednesday – that’s amid cooking, shopping, sleeping, etc. I couldn’t wait to get back to it. I’ve never read anything of Freida McFadden, but in a few minutes I’ll order her other books.
Jyst read. House maid. Omgggggg best story ever read. I love u style and writing best. When is new one coming. Going out today agent all u books u best ever. Thanks uuuuu. What a great story. Read in 2 nights. Up all nite. Bestttttttttttt
Every book I’ve read recently, I’ve had to plow through. I finished them just to have something to read. Then, I started The Housemaid and I am totally smitten with it. Your style of writing is exactly what I LOVE! Can’t wait to read everything you have written. Thank you so very much!!!!!!!
Stumbled on your books, they are fabulous!! Can.t wait to read all of them. Great work.
I loved The Housemaid. This was my first book by Freida McFadden, and I couldn’t put it down until I’ve read it all. I can’t wait to purchase all of her books. I am Freida Readah officially.
Somehow came across a clip of ur book The Wife in the Attic ordered thru my library but had hard time getting! After reading called library told them u were #1 Amazon writer and they need get ur books! In meantime ordering thru Amazon— love ur books cant put them down and alwzys like have a next one ready read! Keep writing!!!
I have every book you’ve written. Love them all. Can’t wait for a new one.
I have read all the books except the 2 short stories. For some reason I have never liked short stories. All the rest, I just devoured continuously til they were all read.
Absolute entertainment every one of them.
Cant wait for the next story. Hopefully?
Just read Housemaid. Now I am reading all of them in order! Keep writing. You are insanely talented!
I loved “The Housemaid”. I couldn’t put it down now a huge fan trying to find all your books in order. Thanks so much can’t wait to to read them all. Would suggest reading them in order?
I love your books but I do do get tired of how the men are so sexy and the sex is so great and all that. I just want to read a good mystery and don’t need all that “oh her husband is drop dead gorgeous, I hope he holds on to his towel” passages. Keep writing and it’s ok to have men who aren’t chiseled and women who aren’t longing for sex. haha
Then definitely do NOT read any of Hoober’s books! I read just one, and the story line was superb BUT the unnecessary cussing & sex is is beyond disgusting! That’s was it for me & Hoover! Thank God I discovered F. McFadden, her writing is like no one I’ve ever read & “normally” she doesn’t have the filth others tend to think we NEED to read for it to be a good book! News flash…we read to escape from the world we live in! We DON’T want to read cussing & sex!
I have read 3 books so far and could not put them down. The Perfect Son was the first book, then Do You Remember, then Do Not Disturb. I am currently reading Brain Damage. Excellent writing, please don’t stop. I have passed your name on to other friends and family who I know will enjoy your books as much as I do. Keep em coimng!
Read 2 of your thriller books — Great reads! Currently submitting requests to my public libraries to purchase all your ebooks to be included in their collection.
Just found you! I’m a retired Educator of 30 yrs., and published Author of “Fast Escape”… my 1st novel.
My husband and I lived near Raleigh, NC 40 yrs., & recently retired in a quaint town full of mysteries & many wonderful people sprinkled with some rather odd ones too! I’m sure they will pop up in one of my books in the near future!
We have 2 Yorkies, Cooper & Ruby-Kate.
I enjoy gardening, writing & reading by all means! & playing with our Yorkies.
Absolutely tickled pink to have found your books! Love your writing!
Dr. Bonnie Vause, Ed.D.
I could not put this book down !! I read until it was done. Fabulous !!
I have just been recommended your books by my daughter. Just read the Housemaid. In one day. Couldn’t put it down. Now have listed all your books. Looking forward to reading them all.
just recently read your book Locked Door. I cannot wait to read every one you wrote. Please keep writing.
I absolutely love your books. I read one for the first time about six weeks ago and now I have read everyone except Baby City. You are my favorite author!!! I can’t wait until your next book comes out. Soon I hope!
Jyst read. House maid. Omgggggg best story ever read. I love u style and writing best. When is new one coming. Going out today agent all u books u best ever. Thanks uuuuu. What a great story. Read in 2 nights. Up all nite. Bestttttttttttt