10 books for fans of The Housemaid's Secret
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The Wife Upstairs
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After a terrible accident leaves Victoria paralyzed and unable to speak, she's confined to her home's top floor with round-the-clock care. McFadden explores the horror of being trapped in your own body while dark secrets about the accident emerge.
★ 4.03 Goodreads (293.9K ratings) - 2
The Inmate
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Taking a job at a men's maximum-security prison, nurse Brooke Sullivan must hide her intimate past connection to inmate Shane Nelson while following strict professional boundaries.
★ 4.00 Goodreads (1.1M ratings) - 3
The Perfect Son
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Erika's perfect suburban life crumbles when police suspect her son Liam in a classmate's disappearance. McFadden explores how well parents really know their children.
★ 3.99 Goodreads (527.0K ratings) - 4
The Intruder
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Isolated in her wilderness cabin during a hurricane, Casey finds a blood-covered girl lurking outside her window who refuses to explain where she came from. McFadden traps both characters in claustrophobic uncertainty about who's the real threat.
★ 3.89 Goodreads (366.4K ratings) - 5
The Ex
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When Cassie starts dating Joel, his perfect ex-girlfriend Francesca seems determined to destroy their relationship—or is Cassie losing her mind? McFadden's psychological thriller plays with perception and obsession to the bitter end.
★ 3.85 Goodreads (184.4K ratings) - 6
The Tenant
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McFadden's latest thriller finds Blake, freshly unemployed and desperate, welcoming the perfect tenant Whitney into his home without realizing the threat she represents.
★ 3.83 Goodreads (631.5K ratings) - 7
The Coworker
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When the strange accountant who never misses work doesn't show up, her office mate gets pulled into a web of lies that makes everyone a suspect. McFadden weaponizes office politics into pure psychological terror.
★ 3.73 Goodreads (596.1K ratings) - 8
Brain Damage
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Charly McKenna's bullet wound steals her career and marriage, but her damaged brain might be showing her truths she never saw before.
★ 3.97 Goodreads (159.8K ratings) - 9
Never Lie
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McFadden weaves a claustrophobic thriller where house-hunting newlyweds become snowed-in detectives, uncovering their missing host's dark therapeutic practices through hidden recordings.
★ 4.08 Goodreads (1.5M ratings) - 10
Dear Debbie
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McFadden's signature blend of domestic suspense and unreliable narration returns in Dear Debbie, with multiple narrators intensifying the psychological tension as conflicting perspectives unravel a sinister mystery. The shorter runtime makes for an equally gripping but more propulsive listen that maintains the same unsettling atmosphere.
★ 4.02 Goodreads (244.1K ratings)