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Kate’s 2¢: “The Housemate’s Secret” by Freida McFadden
“The Housemate’s Secret” by Freida McFadden
If you’ve read any of McFadden’s novels, you know that the first part is not what it seems. This story will live up to your expectations.
Gabriella Cavallero does an outstanding job of reading this novel. I love listening to her narrating any story.
#1 New York Times, Amazon Charts, USA Today, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Sunday Times, and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author Freida McFadden is a practicing physician specializing in brain injury who has penned multiple bestselling psychological thrillers and medical humor novels. Freida’s work has been selected as one of Amazon Editors’ best books of the year, she is the winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for best paperback, and she is a Goodreads Choice Award winner. Her novels have been translated into 40 languages.
Freida lives with her family and black cat in a centuries-old three-story home overlooking the ocean, with staircases that creak and moan with each step, and nobody could hear you if you scream. Unless you scream really loudly, maybe.
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Freida McFadden (born May 1) is an American author and practicing physician specializing in brain injury from New York City.
Biography[edit]
McFadden self-published her first book through Amazon KDP in 2013. Her 2022 book The Housemaid was an international bestseller. A movie adaptation of the book is set to be adapted for Lionsgate with Rebecca Sonnenshine to pen the screenplay, and Hidden Pictures’ Todd Lieberman and Alex Young to produce.[1]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
The housemaid’s secret DB117095
McFadden, Freida. Reading time: 9 hours, 5 minutes.
Read by Gabriella Cavallero.
Suspense Fiction
Psychological Fiction
“It’s hard to find an employer who doesn’t ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want. It’s almost perfect. But I still haven’t met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I’m sure I hear her crying. I notice spots of blood around the neck of her white nightgowns when I’m doing laundry. And one day I can’t help but knock on the door. When it gently swings open, what I see inside changes everything… That’s when I make a promise. After all, I’ve done this before. I can protect Mrs Garrick while keeping my own secrets locked up safe. Douglas Garrick has done wrong. He is going to pay. It’s simply a question of how far I’m willing to go…” — Provided by publisher. Strong language and some violence.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Toxic Prey” by John Sandford (pseudonym of John Roswell Camp)
“Toxic Prey” by John Sandford (pseudonym of John Roswell Camp)
I enjoyed this action-packed book. Robert Petkoff did a good job of narrating the story.
It comes scarily close to what could happen.
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John Sandford, pseudonym of John Roswell Camp (born February 23, 1944), is an American New York Times best-selling author, novelist, former journalist, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize.[1][2][3]
Early life[edit]
Camp was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the son of Anne Agnes (Barron) and Roswell Sandford Camp.[4][5] His mother’s family was German and Lithuanian.[6] He received a bachelor’s degree in American history and literature[7] and a master’s in journalism, both from the University of Iowa.[8]
From 1971 to 1978, Camp wrote for The Miami Herald. In 1978, he moved to Minneapolis and started writing for The Saint Paul Pioneer Press as a features reporter; in 1980 he became a daily columnist. That year, he was a Pulitzer finalist for a series of stories on Native American culture.[9] In 1985, during the Midwest farm crisis, he wrote a series titled “Life on the Land: an American Farm Family,” which followed a typical southwest Minnesota farm family through the course of a full year. For that work, he won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing[9] and the American Society of Newspaper Editors award for Non-Deadline Feature Writing. He worked part-time at the Pioneer Press in 1989[10] and left the following year.
Camp is an avid fiction reader himself. When asked in 2018, “What’s your favorite book of all time?” by the New York Times, he responded, “An impossible question. If you put a gun to my head—say a .40-caliber Walther PPQ, or maybe a .45 ACP Colt Gold Cup—I’d say The Once and Future King by T. H. White.”[11] Both weapons he mentioned make appearances in many of his novels.
Camp is a personal friend and hunting companion of fellow Minnesota author Chuck Logan.[12]
Fiction writer[edit]
In 1989, Camp wrote two novels that would each spawn a popular series. The Fool’s Run (Kidd series) was published under his own name, but the publisher asked him to provide a pseudonym for Rules of Prey (“Prey” series), so it was published under the name John Sandford. After the “Prey” series proved to be more popular, with its charismatic protagonist Lucas Davenport, The Fool’s Run and all of its sequels were published under John Sandford.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Toxic prey DB120267
Sandford, John. Reading time: 11 hours, 21 minutes.
Read by Robert Petkoff.
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
“When a renowned expert in infectious diseases disappears without a trace, Letty Davenport, with the world on high alert, calls in her father, Lucas, to locate him, and when their worst fears are confirmed, they must race against time to stop the virus he created from becoming the perfect weapon.”– OCLC. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Rock Bottom” by Fern Michaels
“Rock Bottom” by Fern Michaels
Laural Merlington did a great job of narrating this story for us. I agree that perpatrators deserve their just dessert, however, the punishment seemed a bit sadistic and inhuman. Okay. Okay. Purposely building with subpar materials is a terrible thing.
I liked the swapping of the semi carrying bakchoy with one with the cheap cinder blocks. That was just desserts and saved the children, to boot.
www.fernmichael.com:
Fern Michaels (born Mary Ruth Kuczkir; April 9, 1933) is an American writer of romance and thriller novels. Her books include Family Blessings, Pretty Woman, and Crown Jewel, as well as the Texas quartet and the Captive series. Fern Michaels is the pen name of Mary Ruth Kuczkir, who was born in Hastings, Pennsylvania on April 9, 1933.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Rock bottom DB120975
Michaels, Fern. Reading time: 8 hours, 57 minutes.
Read by Laural Merlington.
Suspense Fiction
Mystery and Detective Stories
“Isabelle “Izzy” Flanders and Yoko Akia are beginning a new project–an indoor/outdoor café that will be the cornerstone of a market village. Izzy knows just where to get the project off the ground: her old college classmate, Zoe Danfield, now vice president of a huge construction corporation. But the Zoe that Izzy reencounters doesn’t seem like her old, confident friend. This Zoe is tense and stressed, and Izzy eventually learns why. Buildings and bridges have been collapsing all over the world, causing hundreds of deaths, and Zoe suspects her firm’s inferior foundation materials are the cause. When she asks questions, she gets told to keep her nose out of what doesn’t concern her. Zoe knows someone has to blow the whistle and reveal the truth. Who better than the Sisterhood? But this adversary has money, power, and resources to match the Sisterhood’s–and no intention of giving up without a fight…”– Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
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