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The Housemaid Book Series Recap

See below for a recap of all the books (in order) in The Housemaid Series by Freida McFadden, a mystery-thriller book series consisting of three titles — The Housemaid (2022), The Housemaid’s Secret (2023) and The Housemaid is Watching (2024). The books in this series function as standalone books, but it’s generally recommended to read …

Never Lie: Ending & Explanations (Spoilers)

How does the book Never Lie end? Through the tapes and flashbacks, we learn the Adrienne was being blackmailed by a patient, “EJ”, after she tried to terminate their sessions. He had a video of her slashing someone’s tires, and he forced her to continue their sessions and escalated to other demands. Adrienne’s boyfriend, Luke, …

Never Lie

Never Lie by Freida McFadden came out a while ago, back in late 2022, but I’ve been binging a bunch of her thrillers lately so I’m just reading it now. In Never Lie, a young couple, Trisha and Ethan, go to an open house in a snowstorm and end up stranded in an extravagant house …

Never Lie: Recap, Summary & Spoilers

Prologue The book opens by discussing an experiment involving a “broken” vending machine that dispenses candy while returning the money. The experiment showed that the subjects happily took the free candy, often going back for more, and ignored the sign with a number to report if the machine is malfunctioning. The narrator then discusses how …

Funny Story: Recap, Chapter Summary & Spoilers

Chapter 1 WEDNESDAY, MAY 1ST / 108 DAYS UNTIL I CAN LEAVE Three years ago, Daphne Vincent, 33, met Peter Collins. They were each living in Richmond and five blocks away from each other at the time. That day, the weather was perfect so Daphne decided to take a detour through the park. Daphne was …