Freida McFadden Read-Alikes
If you’re a fan of Freida McFadden, try these authors and novels!
May 23, 2024
#1 New York Times, Amazon Charts, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Sunday Times, and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author Freida McFadden is a practicing physician specializing in brain injury who has penned multiple bestselling psychological thrillers and medical humor novels. Freida’s work has been selected as one of Amazon Editors’ best books of the year, she is the winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for best paperback, and she is a Goodreads Choice Award winner. Her novels have been translated into 40 languages.
Freida 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.
Author Read-Alikes
Looking for something similar to Freida McFadden? Here are nine authors suggested by NoveList, our favorite book recommendation database.
- Ruth Ware: Both authors’ works are menacing and intensifying. They often write about rich families, missing persons, and dishonesty.
- S.A. Prentiss: Both authors’ works are menacing, intricately plotted, and intensifying. They often write about dysfunctional families, married people, and married women.
- Camilla Way: Both authors’ works are menacing. They often write about dysfunctional families, missing persons, and married people.
- Samantha Downing: Both authors’ works are darkly humorous, menacing, and intensifying. They often write about teacher-student relationships, married people, and murderers.
- Lynne Reeves: Both authors’ works are menacing and disturbing. They often write about high school students, dysfunctional families, and missing persons.
- Rebecca Drake: Both authors’ works are menacing and stylistically complex. They often write about missing persons, married people, and murderers.
- Paula Daly: Both authors’ works are in the psychological suspense, thriller, and suspense genres. They often write about missing persons, married people, and prisoners.
- Kate Moretti: Both authors’ works are menacing and creepy. They often write about high school students, rich families, and missing persons.
- Darcey Bell: Both authors’ works are menacing and intensifying. They often write about dysfunctional families, missing persons, and married people.
No Exit
Taylor Adams
Trapped at a Colorado rest stop with four strangers during a snowstorm, Darby Thomas must figure out which of them kidnapped the girl locked in a crate in the van parked next to Darby’s car.
The Widow
Fiona Barton
After Jean’s husband dies, the community wants to know the real truth about the crime he was suspected of—but Jean has secrets of her own.
Dear Wife
Kimberly Belle
A woman who has changed her identity to escape domestic abuse and a woman who has gone missing under suspicious circumstances find their lives connected in unexpected ways.
You Never Know
Connie Briscoe
After someone breaks into her home and tries to assault her, Alexis Roberts, who is hearing impaired, believes the intruder is her husband, who, after she made a horrifying discovery, disappeared without a trace, and finds herself trapped in a nightmare of fear and uncertainty.
The Ex
Alafair Burke
After agreeing to defend her ex-fiance when he is arrested for a triple homicide, top criminal lawyer, Olivia Randall begins to have doubts as the evidence mounts against him.
Stillhouse Lake
Rachel Caine
Gina Royal is the definition of average–a shy Midwestern housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. But when a car accident reveals her husband’s secret life as a serial killer, she must remake herself as Gwen Proctor–the ultimate warrior mom.With her ex now in prison, Gwen has finally found refuge in a new home on remote Stillhouse Lake. Though still the target of stalkers and Internet trolls who think she had something to do with her husband’s crimes, Gwen dares to think her kids can finally grow up in peace.But just when she’s starting to feel at ease in her new identity, a body turns up in the lake–and threatening letters start arriving from an all-too-familiar address. Gwen Proctor must keep friends close and enemies at bay to avoid being exposed–or watch her kids fall victim to a killer who takes pleasure in tormenting her. One thing is certain: she’s learned how to fight evil. And she’ll never stop.
The Last Mrs Parrish
Liv Constantine
A coolly manipulative woman worms her way into the lives of a wealthy golden couple from Connecticut as part of her plot to achieve a privileged life, unveiling dark secrets along the way.
Clear My Name
Paula Daly
A jaded investigator from a UK charity that helps exonerate wrongly convicted people teams up with a naive trainee to follow leads related to a witness who could clear an innocent woman’s name. By the author of Open Your Eyes.
My Lovely Wife
Samantha Downing
A seemingly typical suburban husband discloses the secret ways that he and his wife of fifteen years keep their marriage alive and chase away domestic boredom by orchestrating creative ways to get away with murder.
Just Between Us
Rebecca Drake
Desperate to save their friend Heather before her husband’s abuse kills her, three friends must decide what lengths they will go to when Heather isn’t the one who’s dead.
Look Closer
David Ellis
When the murder of a beautiful socialite in a nearby suburb blows up their lives, Simon and Vicky, a’normal,’ well-respected, wealthy Chicago couple, find their secrets and lies having devastating consequences as it comes to light that one of them may be a killer.
Sometimes I Lie
Alice Feeney
A psychological thriller by a former BBC News producer depicts the harrowing experiences of a coma patient with shut-in syndrome who, while unable to move or speak, must listen to those around her to figure out what happened and who is responsible for her injuries.
The Housekeeper
Joy Fielding
Hiring a housekeeper named Elyse to help care for her father and his wife Audrey, who has Parkinsons, successful real estate agent Jodi Bishop soon discovers that the attractive 60-something widow is attempting to take over their lives when Audreys condition rapidly worsens.
Stay Awake
Megan Goldin
Liv Reese, waking up holding a bloodstained knife and her hands covered in scribbled messages, remembers nothing from the past two years and goes on the run for a crime she doesn’t remember committing, followed by someone who will do anything to stop her from remembering permanently.
The Wife Between Us
Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen
The divorce has just become final, and Richard is already engaged to someone. One woman is determined to change that situation– no matter what it takes. Soon a tangle of lies binds her life with those of Richard and his new fiancee. A tangle of lies– that hide some dangerous truths.
Little Secrets
Jennifer Hillier
A year after the disappearance of her son, Marin, a shadow of herself, hires a P.I. to pick up where the police left off, only to discover that her husband is having an affair with a younger woman, which is a problem Marin wants to fix by any means necessary.
None Of This Is True
Lisa Jewell
Popular podcaster Alix Summer becomes the subject of her own podcast after a woman named Josie Fair comes into her life and then disappears, leaving behind a terrible and terrifying legacy that puts her life and her family’s lives in mortal danger.
The Other Mrs
Mary Kubica
Unnerved by her husband’s inheritance of a decrepit coastal property and the presence of a disturbed relative, community newcomer Sadie uncovers harrowing facts about her family’s possible role in a neighbor’s murder.
A Good Marriage
Kimberly McCreight
Begged for help by an old friend, an overworked lawyer investigates a suspicious death in a Brooklyn brownstone before she is confronted by a close-knit circle of parents who would protect an exclusive school.
The Spires
Kate Moretti
When the past comes knocking at her door in the form of her old roommate, Willa Blaine, who needs refuge from an abusive husband, Penelope Cox, remembering the deadly events long ago when they were known as ‘the Spires,’ feels the cracks in her life widen as she questions Willa’s motives.
The Breakdown
B.A. Paris
Plagued with guilt for not stopping for a stranded driver who was later reported murdered, Cass struggles with an increasingly compromised memory before she begins receiving silent phone calls she believes are from the killer.
You Will Never Know
S.A. Prentiss
A woman’s carefully rebuilt life is upended by a local murder that casts suspicion on her daughter and stepson amid revelations of her husband’s failing business and a private investigator’s inquiries into the death of her first husband.
Hidden Pictures
Jason Rekulak
Hired as nanny in an affluent New Jersey suburb, Mallory enjoys the stability of the job and bonds with Teddy, a sweet, five-year-old boy who is never without his sketchbook until his drawings suddenly become increasingly sinister.
The Only One Left
Riley Sager
In 1983, home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora Hope, helping her write about the events leading up to her family’s massacre in 1929 ,and soon discovers this seemingly harmless woman could be far more dangerous than she first thought.
Don’t Let Her Stay
Nicola Sanders
Joanne knows how lucky she is. Richard is a wonderful husband, Evie is the most gorgeous baby girl, they live in a beautiful house… Life couldn’t be better. Until Richard’s twenty-year-old daughter Chloe turns up. Chloe hasn’t spoken to her father since the day he married Joanne two years ago. But Chloe wants to make peace. She’ll even move in for a few weeks to help Joanne with the new baby. It sounds perfect, but when things happen that make Joanne feel like she’s losing her mind, she begins to wonder: Is Chloe really here to help? Or has Joanne made a terrible mistake by letting her move in? And is it too late to ask her to leave?
The Woman In Cabin 10
Ruth Ware
Assigned to review an exclusive North Sea luxury cruise, travel journalist Lo Blacklock witnesses a woman being thrown overboard and is baffled when all passengers remain unruffled and accounted for, a nightmare that unravels as Lo struggles to convince everyone that what she saw was real.
A Flicker In The Dark
Stacy Willingham
Twenty years after her father was arrested as a serial killer, Louisiana psychologist Chloe Davis becomes alarmed when local teenage girls once again go missing and she begins seeing parallels that may or may not be there.