The Housemaid by Freida McFadden Series: The Housemaid #1
Published by Self-Published on April 26, 2022
Pages: 338
Genres: Mystery, Thriller
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“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own…
Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.
I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.
I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late.
But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am.
They don’t know what I’m capable of…
An unbelievably twisty read that will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves The Woman in the Window, The Wife Between Us and The Girl on the Train won’t be able to put this down!
What the heck did I just read? Each chapter of The Housemaid is more bonkers than the one before! I was quickly pulled in by the characters and became addicted to the insanity.
There is a whole lot to process in this story. You have a wealthy family that includes a long-suffering husband, his unstable socialite wife, and their spoiled little girl. You’ve also got a poor but savvy woman with a mysterious past, who is delighted at landing a job as their live-in maid. If that’s not intriguing enough, there’s a creepy attic bedroom and gaslighting galore.
The explanations towards the end are clumsy and leave some holes, but I was an eager passenger on this twisted roller coaster ride.
Recommended for fans of:
Thrillers
Mysteries
Page-turners
About Freida McFadden
#1 Amazon and USA TODAY 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 black 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.
You got my attention! I think I need to read this one!
I like a bonkers story every once in a while. Terrific review!