The Housemaid is Watching

The Housemaid Is Watching is a 2024 mystery/thriller novel by bestselling author Freida McFadden, who is also a medical doctor specializing in brain injuries. McFadden has written 25 books that have been translated into 40 languages. Besides The Housemaid series, McFadden is also the author of The Coworker (2023), Ward D (2023), Never Lie (2022), and The Teacher (2024).

The Housemaid Is Watching is the third book in McFadden’s The Housemaid series, The Housemaid (2022) and The Housemaid’s Secret (2023). The entire series follows Millie Accardi, née Calloway, who in the first two novels works as a housemaid for wealthy families but by the third novel, has become a social worker. Before finding work as a housemaid, Millie spent a decade in prison for killing a boy who had tried to rape her friend when they were teenagers.

Throughout the series, McFadden wrestles with themes of domesticity, secrecy, deception, and the impact of trauma and abuse. In The Housemaid Is Watching, McFadden specifically explores The Danger of Family Secrets,

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