Freida McFadden is the pen name of an American novelist and practising physician specialising in brain injury. She began writing under that name with The Devil Wears Scrubs (2013), a medical comedy, keeping her fiction apart from her work with patients, and revealed her identity only in April 2026. She then turned to psychological thrillers, and The Housemaid (2022) made her an international bestseller, followed by further Housemaid novels and standalones such as The Coworker, The Teacher and The Boyfriend. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages.
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Freida McFadden is the pen name of an American novelist and practising physician specialising in brain injury. She began writing under that name with The Devil Wears Scrubs (2013), a medical comedy, keeping her fiction apart from her work with patients, and revealed her identity only in April 2026. She then turned to psychological thrillers, and The Housemaid (2022) made her an international bestseller, followed by further Housemaid novels and standalones such as The Coworker, The Teacher and The Boyfriend. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages.
