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.
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.
Victoria Barnett has it all.
A great career as a nurse practitioner. A handsome and loving husband. A beautiful home in the suburbs and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect—or so it seems. Then she’s in a terrible accident… and her life is forever changed. Sylvia Robinson is hired as a caregiver for Victoria. Sylvia moves into a spare room, feeds Victoria, and takes her on long walks. The two women become friends. But as it turns out, this simple nursing job is more than what it seems. As Sylvia and Victoria’s friendship grows, Sylvia realizes that Victoria is desperately trying to tell her something. If only she could speak.
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…
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.
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.
But after years of failed infertility treatments and adoptions that have fallen through, it seems like motherhood is not in her future. That is, until her personal assistant Monica makes a generous offer that will make all of Abby’s dreams come true. Or all of her nightmares. Because it turns out Monica isn’t who she says she is. The woman now carrying Abby’s child has dark, twisted secrets. And she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Decades later, Nora’s father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way. Then Nora discovers one of her young female patients has been murdered. In the same unique and horrific manner that her father used to kill his victims. Somebody knows who Nora is. Somebody wants her to take the fall for this unthinkable crime. But she’s not a killer like her father. The police can’t pin anything on her. As long as they don’t look in her basement.
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.
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