How to Read Freida McFadden Books in Order in 2025?

Freida McFadden has quickly become a standout name in psychological thrillers, known for her gripping plots and unexpected twists. As a practicing physician specializing in brain injury, she brings a unique perspective to her writing, blending medical insight with suspenseful storytelling.

Almost all of Freida McFadden’s books are bestsellers, and fans love her novels and eagerly await the release of her new ones!

Her novels, including The Housemaid series, are filled with fast-paced narratives and jaw-dropping endings. Whether writing standalone novels or series, McFadden explores the darker sides of human nature, keeping readers guessing until the very last page.

While many of her books can be read independently, following them in order—especially her series—enhances the experience. This guide will help you navigate her works chronologically, ensuring you don’t miss a single twist.

Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid Series in Order:

1. The Housemaid (2022)

Every day, I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house from top to bottom, collect their daughter from school, and 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 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 tried on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once to see what it was like. But she soon finds out… and it’s far too late by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside.

But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am. They don’t know what I’m capable of!

2. The Housemaid’s Secret (2023)

Finding an employer who doesn’t ask too many questions about my past is hard. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously gave me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen.

I can work here for a while and stay quiet until I get what I want. It’s almost perfect. But I still haven’t met Mrs. Garrick or seen inside the guest bedroom.

I’m sure I hear her crying. I notice spots of blood around the neck of her white nightgowns when I’m doing laundry. And one day, I can’t help but knock on the door. When it gently swings open, what I see inside changes everything.

That’s when I make a promise. After all, I’ve done this before. I can protect Mrs. Garrick while keeping my secrets locked up. Douglas Garrick has done wrong. He is going to pay. It’s simply a question of how far I’m willing to go!

2.5. The Housemaid’s Wedding (2024) – A Novella

Today is supposed to be the happiest day of my life.

I’m engaged to the man of my dreams, and in a few short hours, I’ll stand before a judge who will declare us husband and wife. Despite some bumps in the road, this day is everything I dreamed it would be.

There’s only one problem:

Someone doesn’t want me to live long enough to say my vows. And if I’m not careful, they may very well get their wish.

3. The Housemaid is Watching (2024)

I used to clean other people’s houses—now, I can’t believe this home is actually mine. I love the charming kitchen, the quiet cul-de-sac, and the huge yard where my kids can play. My husband and I saved for years to give our children the life they deserve.

Even though I’m wary of our new neighbor, Mrs. Lowell, when she invites us over for dinner, it’s our chance to make friends. Her maid opens the door wearing a white apron, her hair in a tight bun. I know exactly what it’s like to be in her shoes.

But her cold stare gives me chills…

The Lowells’ maid isn’t the only strange thing on our street. I’m sure I see a shadowy figure watching us. My husband leaves the house late at night. And when I meet a woman who lives across the way, her words chill me to the bone: Be careful of your neighbors!

Freida McFadden’s Dr. Jane McGill Series in Order:

1. The Devil Wears Scrubs (2013)

Newly minted doctor Jane McGill is in hell.

Not literally, of course. But between her drug addict patients, sleepless nights on call, and battling wits with the sadistic yet charming Sexy Surgeon, Jane can’t imagine an afterlife much worse than her first month of medical internship at County Hospital.

And then there’s the devil herself: Jane’s senior resident, Dr. Alyssa Morgan. When Alyssa becomes hell-bent on making her new interns pay tenfold for the deadly sin of incompetence, Jane starts to worry that she may not make it through the year with her soul or her sanity still intact.

2. The Devil You Know (2017)

Dr. Jane McGill is in heaven.

She’s got a great job at a VA Hospital, an adorable daughter, and a loving husband. Granted, it would be wonderful if her preschooler didn’t wake her up at three in the morning, and it would be a miracle if her husband changed the toilet paper roll once every millennium. Still, in most ways, she has the ideal life she’d always imagined.

Then Jane discovers that Dr. Ryan Reilly is the VA’s newest vascular surgeon. Dr. Ryan Reilly, a.k.a. Sexy Surgeon, a.k.a. the biggest jerk she ever loved.

A decade ago, Jane broke up with the Sexy Surgeon to marry the Nice Software Engineer, but as cracks and crevices appear in her marriage, she can’t help but wonder what life would have been like if she’d made a different choice. Or if it isn’t too late to change her mind!

All Standalone Novels by Freida McFadden in Order:

1. Baby City (2015)

There are only three things in this world: death, taxes, and babies.

Nobody knows this truth better than Emily McCoy, a third-year resident working in Baby City, the affectionate nickname for the busy Labor and Delivery unit at a New York City hospital.

On a typical day in Baby City, Emily delivers more babies than the hours of sleep she manages to squeeze in that night. And definitely more than the dates she’s been on since she started her training in OB/GYN two years earlier.

As Emily works tirelessly to safely herald baby after baby after baby (after baby) into the world, she becomes well acquainted with the three hard facts of Baby: Babies never come when you want them to, they always come when you don’t want them to, you don’t know who your true friends are until your baby is sliding down the birth canal!

2. Brain Damage (2016)

After years of hard work, Dr. Charly McKenna finally has a prosperous career as a dermatologist, a spacious apartment overlooking Central Park, and a handsome lawyer husband.

Then, one night, a bullet rips through the right side of her skull, and she loses everything.

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her… before he finishes the job he started.

3. The Surrogate Mother (2018)

Abby wants a baby more than anything. 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.

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!

4. The Ex (2019)

Cassie thinks she has met the perfect man.

Joel is sweet, handsome, romantic, and, best of all, he’s crazy about Cassie. She thinks she’s found the guy she’ll spend the rest of her life with. Have children with. Grow old with.

Yes, she knows about his perfect ex-girlfriend, Francesca—the beautiful, brilliant chef beloved by all his friends. But she thinks Francesca is out of the picture. She thinks Francesca is gone for good, but that might not be true!

5. The Perfect Son (2019)

Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life until the evening when two detectives show up at her front door.

A high school girl has vanished from Erika’s quiet suburban neighborhood. The police suspect the worst—murder. And Erika’s teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive.

Erika has always sensed something dark and disturbed in her seemingly perfect older child. She wants to believe he’s innocent, but as the evidence mounts, she can’t deny the truth—Liam may have done the unthinkable.

Now, she must ask herself: How far will she go to protect her son?

6. The Wife Upstairs (2020)

Victoria Barnett has a great career, 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 everything falls apart.

Now, Victoria is unable to walk. She can’t feed or dress herself. She can’t even speak. She is confined to the top floor of her house with twenty-four-hour care.

Victoria’s husband hires Sylvia Robinson to help care for her. But it turns out Victoria isn’t as impaired as Sylvia was led to believe. There’s a story Victoria desperately wants to tell—if only she could get the words out.

Then Sylvia discovers Victoria’s diary hidden away in a drawer. And what’s inside is shocking!

7. One by One (2020)

A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation.

She thought this would be a break from the stresses of work and raising her young children—a chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot tubs with two other couple friends sounded like heaven.

Then Claire’s minivan breaks down on a lonely dirt road. With no cell reception, the group has no choice but to hike the rest of the way to their hotel. But the woods aren’t as easy to navigate as they thought.

Hours later, they are hopelessly lost. As they navigate deeper into the woods, the members of their party are struck down mysteriously one by one. Has a wild animal been hunting them? Or is the hunter one of them?

But as more time passes, one thing becomes clear: Only one of them will return home alive!

8. Want to Know a Secret? (2021)

YouTube baking sensation April Masterson knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies. Or how to make key lime squares that will melt in your mouth. But if you keep watching her offline, you may discover other secrets about April. Secrets she’d rather you didn’t know.

Like where did her son go when he snuck out of the house? What was she doing with the local soccer coach behind fogged windows? And what’s buried in her backyard?

Everyone has secrets. Some are worse than others. April’s secrets are enough to destroy her.

9. The Locked Door (2021)

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.

Until the day the police arrived at their front door.

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!

10. Do Not Disturb (2021)

Quinn Alexander has committed an unthinkable crime, and to avoid spending her life in prison, Quinn makes a run for it.

She leaves behind her home, her job, and her family. She grabs her passport and heads for the northern border before the police discover what she’s done. But when an unexpected snowstorm forces her off the road, Quinn must take refuge at the broken-down, isolated Baxter Motel.

The handsome and kindly owner, Nick Baxter, is only too happy to offer her a cheap room for the night. Unfortunately, the Baxter Motel isn’t the safe haven it seemed to be.

The motel has a dark and disturbing past. And in the dilapidated house across the way, the silhouette of Nick’s ailing wife is always at the window. Always watching.

In the morning, Quinn must leave the motel. She’ll pack up her belongings and get back on the road to freedom. But first, she must survive the night!

11. Do You Remember? (2022)

Tess Strebel can’t recognize her own face.

She can’t recognize her home. Her bedroom is unfamiliar. And she can’t remember the handsome stranger lying next to her in bed—a stranger who claims to be her husband.

Tess reads a letter in her own handwriting, composed during a rare lucid day, explaining her life as it now exists: She was in a terrible car accident one year ago. Every morning, she wakes up unable to remember most of the last decade, including her own wedding.

Tess has no choice but to accept her new life and hope her memory will return. After all, why should she doubt the letter she wrote to herself? Or the kind man from the wedding photos on her dresser who seems to genuinely care about her well-being?

And then Tess receives a text message on her phone. One that changes everything: “Don’t trust the man who calls himself your husband.”

12. The Inmate (2022)

As a new nurse practitioner at a men’s maximum security prison, Brooke Sullivan must follow three rules: treat all prisoners with respect, never reveal any personal information, and never become too friendly with the inmates.

However, none of the staff at the prison know Brooke has already broken the rules. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary’s most notorious and dangerous inmates.

And they certainly don’t know that Shane was Brooke’s high school sweetheart―the star quarterback who is now spending the rest of his life in prison for a series of grisly murders. Or that Brooke’s testimony was what put him there.

But Shane knows. And he will never forget!

13. Never Lie (2022)

Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams.

But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate… with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end.

In search of a book to keep her entertained until the snow abates, Tricia happens upon a secret room—one that contains audio transcripts from every patient Dr. Hale has ever interviewed. As Tricia listens to the cassette tapes, she learns about the terrifying chain of events leading up to Dr. Hale’s mysterious disappearance.

Tricia plays the tapes one by one, each revealing another shocking piece of the puzzle, and Dr. Adrienne Hale’s web of lies slowly unravels.

And then Tricia reaches the final cassette. The one that reveals the entire horrifying truth!

14. Ward D (2023)

Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night in a locked psychiatric ward.

Amy dreads her evening working in Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out.

As the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced that something terrible is happening within these 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’s worst nightmare was spending the night in Ward D. And now she might never escape!

15. The Coworker (2023)

Dawn Schiff is strange. At least, everyone thinks so at Vixed, the nutritional supplement company where Dawn works as an accountant. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m.

So when Dawn doesn’t show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrell—a beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running—is surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything…

It turns out Dawn wasn’t just an awkward outsider—she was being targeted by someone close. Now, Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn as she finds herself caught in a twisted game of cat and mouse, which leaves her wondering: Who’s the real victim?

16. The Teacher (2024)

Eve has a good life. She gets up each day, gets a kiss from her husband, Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be except for one thing!

Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher affair, with one student, Addie, at its center. But Eve knows there is far more to these ugly rumors than meets the eye.

Addie can’t be trusted. She lies, hurts people, and destroys lives—at least, that’s what everyone says.

But nobody knows the real Addie. Nobody knows the secrets that could destroy her. And Addie will do anything to keep it quiet.

17. Dead Med (2024)

When Heather McKinley dreamed of becoming a doctor, she imagined curing sick kids and sporting pink stethoscopes. She never anticipated the sleepless nights, grueling exams, and endless labs. And she certainly never knew that her medical school earned the nickname Dead Med, thanks to the tragic history of students overdosing on illegal drugs.

But Heather would never consider doing anything like that. That is, until her longtime boyfriend dumps her, she finds herself failing anatomy, and her world starts to crumble.

Then, on the night before the final exam in anatomy, a shot rings out through the hallways of Dead Med.

The school has claimed yet another casualty. One of Heather’s classmates has done the unthinkable, which will happen again before her desperate 911 call even connects!

18. The Boyfriend (2024)

Like every single woman in New York, Sydney Shaw has terrible dating luck. She’s seen men lie in their dating profiles, men 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 and 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? He is 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 suspicions that the perfect man may not be as perfect as he seems.

19. The Crash (2025)

Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move.

But she doesn’t realize she’s heading straight into a blizzard, and she never arrives at her destination.

Stranded in rural Maine with a dead car and broken ankle, Tegan worries she’s made a terrible mistake. Then, a miracle, she is rescued by a couple who offer her a room in their warm cabin until the snow clears.

But something isn’t right. Tegan believed she was waiting out the storm, but as time ticks by, she realizes she is in grave danger. This safe haven isn’t what she thought it was, and staying here may have been her most deadly mistake yet.

20. The Tenant (2025)

Blake Porter is riding high until he’s not. Abruptly fired from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new brownstone that he shares with his fiancee, he’s desperate to make ends meet.

Enter Whitney. Beautiful, charming, down-to-earth, and looking for a room to rent. She’s exactly what Blake’s looking for. Or is she?

Because something isn’t quite right as the neighbors start treating Blake differently. The smell of decay permeates his home, no matter how hard he scrubs. Strange noises jar him awake in the middle of the night. Soon, Blake fears someone knows his darkest secrets.

Danger lives right at home, and by the time Blake realizes it, it’ll be far too late. The trap is already set!

Conclusion

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