Freida McFadden is a best-selling psychological thriller author. She is American, born in New York City on May 1st, 1980, and currently living in Boston with her husband and two children. McFadden is her pen name. She is a doctor, specializing in brain injuries. Initially, she self-published her books, but found success with her 2022 thriller The Housemaid and its two sequels, The Housemaid’s Secret (2023) and The Housemaid is Watching (2024). Since finding success with her writing, she has curtailed her medical practice to part-time hours to devote more time to creating new thrillers.

Central to McFadden’s work is her focus on human psychology. She primarily uses the first-person point of view, as she does in Do Not Disturb, to emphasize her characters’ subjectivity and limited point of view. Her narrative style also helps to build suspense, as she often features unreliable narrators who share varying amounts of guilt and culpability. For example, in The Coworker (2023), Natalie reports her missing coworker, Dawn. As the narrative unfolds through Natalie’s

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