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#1 New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publisher's Weekly, and Amazon Charts bestselling author Freida McFadden is a practicing physician specializing in brain injury who has penned multiple Kindle bestselling psychological thrillers and medical humor novels. She lives with her family and possessed cat in a centuries-old three-story home overlooking the ocean, with staircases that creak and moan with each step, and nobody could hear you if you scream. Unless you scream really loudly, maybe.

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	The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1) 4.26 avg rating — 4,034,264 ratings — published 2022 — 138 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Never Lie 4.07 avg rating — 1,802,826 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Locked Door 3.97 avg rating — 764,001 ratings — published 2021 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tenant 3.83 avg rating — 769,646 ratings — published 2025 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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New Christmas thriller release!

I'm so excited to announce that I wrote a new Christmas thriller novelette called The Gift!

What's a novelette, you ask? Great question, because literally nobody has heard of it. It's longer than a short story, but it's not quite as long as a novella. It's six chapters (plus a shocking epilogue) of total thrills and fun!

I'd be thrilled and honored if you'd check out my little novelette, which is a Read more of this blog post »

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Published on December 07, 2022 10:55 • Tags: christmas-thriller, holiday-thriller, psychological-thriller

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