This page gathers Freida McFadden books in publication order, together with series reading paths and related works.
Quick Index
Author: Freida McFadden
Scope: the current official booklist categories on Freida McFadden’s website, including The Housemaid Series, standalone thrillers, women’s fiction, and separately listed short fiction. The official site presently shows 4 Housemaid entries, 22 standalone thrillers, 3 women’s fiction titles, and 4 short works.
Best starting points
- Publication entry: The Devil Wears Scrubs (2013)
- Breakout thriller entry: The Housemaid (2022)
- Standalone thriller entry: Never Lie (2022)
- Recent entry: The Tenant (2025) or Dear Debbie (2026)
Does order matter?
- Yes for The Housemaid Series
- Yes for Dr. Jane McGill
- No for the standalone thrillers
- No for most short fiction, unless you want to place The Housemaid’s Wedding inside the Housemaid sequence
Not to be confused with
- Dead Med is the available rewritten version of the out-of-print title Suicide Med.
- Ward D is the expanded book version connected to the out-of-print short work The Psyching.
- Baby City is co-written with Kelley Stoddard and sits in the women’s fiction grouping, not the thriller line.
Reading Paths
1. Publication order
This route follows first publication dates of the currently available books and short fiction on the official printable list.
- The Devil Wears Scrubs (Dr. Jane McGill #1, novel, 2013)
- Baby City (women’s fiction, co-written novel, 2015)
- Brain Damage (standalone thriller, novel, 2016)
- The Devil You Know (Dr. Jane McGill #2, novel, 2017)
- The Surrogate Mother (standalone thriller, novel, 2018)
- The Ex (standalone thriller, novel, 2019)
- The Perfect Son (standalone thriller, novel, 2019)
- The Wife Upstairs (standalone thriller, novel, 2020)
- One by One (standalone thriller, novel, 2020)
- Want to Know a Secret? (standalone thriller, novel, 2021)
- The Locked Door (standalone thriller, novel, 2021)
- Do Not Disturb (standalone thriller, novel, 2021)
- Do You Remember? (standalone thriller, novel, 2022)
- The Housemaid (The Housemaid Series #1, novel, 2022)
- The Inmate (standalone thriller, novel, 2022)
- Never Lie (standalone thriller, novel, 2022)
- The Gift (short story, 2022)
- The Housemaid’s Secret (The Housemaid Series #2, novel, 2023)
- Ward D (standalone thriller, novel, 2023)
- The Coworker (standalone thriller, novel, 2023)
- The Teacher (standalone thriller, novel, 2024)
- Dead Med (standalone thriller, novel, 2024)
- The Housemaid Is Watching (The Housemaid Series #3, novel, 2024)
- The Widow’s Husband’s Secret Lie (novella, 2024)
- The Boyfriend (standalone thriller, novel, 2024)
- The Housemaid’s Wedding (The Housemaid Series, short story, 2024)
- The Crash (standalone thriller, novel, 2025)
- The Tenant (standalone thriller, novel, 2025)
- Death Row (Alibis Collection #1, short read, 2025)
- Dear Debbie (standalone thriller, novel, 2026)
- The Dinner Party (short story, 2026)
- The Divorce (standalone thriller, novel, 2026)
2. Chronological order
A full cross-catalogue internal chronology is not published on the official site. For Freida McFadden, chronology mainly matters for The Housemaid books. The author’s FAQ gives the preferred sequence as follows.
The Housemaid Series
- The Housemaid
- The Housemaid’s Secret
- The Housemaid’s Wedding
- The Housemaid Is Watching
The same FAQ also notes that The Housemaid’s Wedding can be saved for the end as a flashback-style extra.
3. Beginner path
This path samples the author’s main lanes without requiring a full catalogue read.
- The Housemaid
- Never Lie
- The Teacher
- The Coworker
- The Boyfriend
- The Devil Wears Scrubs
4. Completionist path
Read everything in publication order, then place the out-of-print predecessor notes afterward for reference only. On the official FAQ page, McFadden states that Suicide Med was rewritten as Dead Med, and that The Psyching was expanded into Ward D.
Publication Order Master List
Dr. Jane McGill
- The Devil Wears Scrubs
- Series: Dr. Jane McGill #1
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2013
- Notes: Earliest currently listed book on the official printable booklist
- The Devil You Know
- Series: Dr. Jane McGill #2
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2017
- Notes: Read after The Devil Wears Scrubs for direct sequence continuity
The Housemaid Series
- The Housemaid
- Series: The Housemaid Series #1
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2022
- Notes: Main entry point for the author’s best-known series
- The Housemaid’s Secret
- Series: The Housemaid Series #2
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2023
- Notes: Second Housemaid novel
- The Housemaid’s Wedding
- Series: The Housemaid Series
- Format: Short story
- Year: 2024
- Notes: Official FAQ places it between The Housemaid’s Secret and The Housemaid Is Watching
- The Housemaid Is Watching
- Series: The Housemaid Series #3
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2024
- Notes: Third full-length Housemaid novel
Standalone Thrillers
- Brain Damage
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2016
- Notes: Medical thriller listed in the standalone thriller category
- The Surrogate Mother
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2018
- Notes: Early standalone psychological thriller
- The Ex
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2019
- Notes: Standalone suspense title
- The Perfect Son
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2019
- Notes: Standalone crime-leaning psychological thriller
- The Wife Upstairs
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2020
- Notes: Standalone domestic thriller
- One by One
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2020
- Notes: Standalone mystery-thriller
- Want to Know a Secret?
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2021
- Notes: Standalone domestic suspense title
- The Locked Door
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2021
- Notes: Standalone thriller with medical-crime adjacency in some catalogues, but officially shelved as standalone thriller
- Do Not Disturb
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2021
- Notes: Standalone thriller
- Do You Remember?
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2022
- Notes: Standalone suspense novel
- The Inmate
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2022
- Notes: Standalone thriller
- Never Lie
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2022
- Notes: One of the simplest entry points among the standalones
- Ward D
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2023
- Notes: Official FAQ says the out-of-print The Psyching was expanded into this book
- The Coworker
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2023
- Notes: Standalone thriller
- The Teacher
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2024
- Notes: Standalone thriller
- Dead Med
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2024
- Notes: Rewritten available version of the out-of-print Suicide Med
- The Boyfriend
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2024
- Notes: Standalone thriller
- The Crash
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2025
- Notes: Standalone thriller
- The Tenant
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2025
- Notes: Standalone thriller
- The Intruder
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2025
- Notes: Standalone thriller
- Dear Debbie
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2026
- Notes: Current 2026 standalone thriller release
- The Divorce
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2026
- Notes: Newest named standalone thriller currently on the official printable list
Women’s Fiction
- Baby City
- Series: Standalone
- Format: Novel
- Year: 2015
- Notes: Co-written with Kelley Stoddard
Related Works and Where They Fit
These titles are officially listed, but they sit outside the core novel sequence above.
- The Gift
- Format: Short story
- Placement: Read anytime
- Notes: Holiday-themed psychological thriller short story
- The Widow’s Husband’s Secret Lie
- Format: Novella
- Placement: Read anytime
- Notes: Satirical novella, separate from the main thriller novels
- Death Row
- Format: Short read
- Placement: Start of the Alibis Collection
- Notes: Official printable list identifies it as “Book 1: Alibis Collection”
- The Dinner Party
- Format: Short story
- Placement: Read anytime
- Notes: Pick Your Poison adventure short story
Dependencies & Notes
- The official FAQ says the Housemaid books do not have to be read in order, but the reading experience is better in sequence because later entries can spoil earlier ones.
- The same FAQ gives the preferred Housemaid order as The Housemaid, The Housemaid’s Secret, The Housemaid’s Wedding, and The Housemaid Is Watching. It also notes that The Housemaid’s Wedding can be saved for the end.
- The standalone thrillers are presented by the official site as individual titles rather than a linked numbered universe. Publication order is the cleanest way to read across them.
- The Devil Wears Scrubs and The Devil You Know form the Dr. Jane McGill sequence and should be read in numbered order.
- Dead Med replaces the unavailable Suicide Med, and Ward D expands the unavailable The Psyching. For this page, only the currently available versions are placed in the master list.
- Baby City is grouped by the official site under women’s fiction, not under thriller series reading order.
FAQs
What is the best order to read Freida McFadden books?
Publication order works best for a full-catalogue read. For series-only reading, use the Housemaid order from the official FAQ.
Do the Housemaid books need to be read in order?
They do not strictly have to be read in order, but the author says the experience is better that way because later books may reveal earlier-book information.
Which Freida McFadden books are series books?
The currently identified series on the official site are The Housemaid Series and Dr. Jane McGill. Death Row is also marked as Book 1 of the Alibis Collection on the printable list.
What happened to Suicide Med?
The author’s FAQ says Suicide Med is out of print and was rewritten as Dead Med.
What is Freida McFadden’s newest book?
On the official printable booklist as of April 18, 2026, the newest listed release is The Divorce (May 26, 2026).
Change Log
- Last checked: April 18, 2026
- What changed: aligned the page to the current official printable booklist; included 2025 and 2026 titles such as The Tenant, The Intruder, Dear Debbie, and The Divorce; treated The Housemaid’s Wedding as a Housemaid side entry using the author FAQ order; noted the replacement status of Dead Med and the expansion history behind Ward D
- Most recent known release included: The Divorce (2026)