About the book
As she observes the fraught marriage below her, the household's secrets, and her own, begin to surface.
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Mystery, Crime & Thriller
The Housemaid
None (marketed as a psychological thriller)
FM
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Bookouture (Hachette UK)
A young woman with a troubled past takes a live-in job cleaning for a wealthy couple, moving into a cramped attic room in their large house.
- Published
- 2022
- Pages
- 338
- Format
- Digital-first (Bookouture); first...
- Language
- English
A desperate young woman with a criminal record talks her way into a live-in maid's job for a glamorous suburban couple, and climbs the stairs to a tiny attic room whose door locks only from the outside.
Freida McFadden's runaway thriller weaponizes that setup for maximum unease, doling out short, cliff-edged chapters and shifting perspectives to keep the reader perpetually off-balance about who is preying on whom.
It makes no claim to literary grandeur; its ambitions are pure velocity and misdirection, and on those terms it is ruthlessly effective, engineered around the kind of mid-book turn that launched a thousand online recommendations. McFadden understands exactly what a certain reader wants - momentum, twists, a sense of vertiginous control shifting hands - and delivers it without padding.
For anyone seeking a fast, twisty, gulp-it-in-a-sitting thriller, this is the book that came to define the recent wave, and a genuine publishing phenomenon.
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Pages
338
Published
2022
Bookouture (Hachette UK)
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Format
Digital-first (Bookouture); first...
Language
English
Mystery, Crime & Thriller
ISBN
978-1803144382
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