The book The Intruder by Freida McFadden arrives in October 2025, and if you’ve read McFadden before — The Housemaid and its sequels built her a serious commercial following — you know what you’re getting: tight plotting, psychological misdirection, and a pace that makes it difficult to put down. The setup involves secrets, mounting suspicion, and the particular dread of realizing that danger might be closer than you’ve allowed yourself to believe.
McFadden is one of the more consistent writers in commercial psychological thriller right now, which is a genre that has a high rate of promising premises that collapse under their own twists. She tends to land her endings, which matters more than people give it credit for. If you have a long flight or a weekend where you want something that will keep you turning pages without asking too much of you between those turns, this is a reliable pick. Available through Amazon and Poisoned Pen Press.
