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The Housemaid

By: Freida McFadden
Narrated by: Lauryn Allman
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“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own....

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

But I reassure myself: The Winchesters don’t know who I really am.

They don’t know what I’m capable of....

©2022 Freida McFadden (P)2023 Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd. Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women's Voices Marriage Exciting Fiction Psychological Suspense
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I enjoyed this one. It was a good listen and went for long enough to let us get involved in everything.

Very good book

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This story had a lot of unexpected twists and turns, which I enjoyed. However, the narration could have been better. Most characters sounded the same, and there were occasions where there was some accidental crossovers in voice (for example, a female's voice being accidentally spoken with the deeper tones of her husband), which made things a little confusing here and there. That said, I would still recommend this as a good, engaging listen.

Good story, narration just okay

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And I'm still waiting for the big twist .... oh thats right I guessed it prior to part 2 of the book. Bit disappointing given the reviews I had read.

Called it!

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Such a great book with a clever twist at the end that I didn't see coming. Extremely well narrated!

An Excellent Book.

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Great storyline really enjoyed this book, I couldn’t stop listening and have just downloaded the next book in this series. I’m a Freida fangirl!

Loved this one!

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Read this in a day! Disliked the Brooklyn accent of Millie but the voice of Nina was fine.

Kept me hooked

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So well written and narrated - I devoured this book in 3 days! Full of suspense and plot twists that I don’t want to give away in a review but the timing in which they all unfolded was 👌 . Highly recommend!

The plot twists!! I couldn’t put it down! No wonder this is a best seller ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Overall an alright listen. The story is interesting, nothing spectacular but good to zone out to. There are a few farfetched elements but tolerable - until you get to the epilogue. The ending itself was a bit unbelievable but I still would have walked away satisfied. However the epilogue is just stupid and makes zero sense if you think about it for even 10 seconds. My advice: read for a good ol trashy crime book, but skip the epilogue - it doesn't add anything to the ending except eye rolls.

skip the epilogue to avoid frustration

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Thrilling, good story, plot twists, great characters. Highly recommend. Am off to read more from this author

Grippingly good story

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loved it..ready for the next. thank you great narrating also. Just long enough in length.

made me hold my beath

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