I am in so many different book-lover’s groups on Facebook, including several dedicated to one of my all-time favorite genres: the psychological thriller. In all of my thriller fan groups, one book has been dominating every recommendation post lately, and that’s Freida McFadden’s The Tenant.

McFadden is known as the modern-day queen of thrillers, and her work has never disappointed me. I’ve read many of her books, and I’ve even reviewed a few others before. You can check out my reviews for Do You Want to Know a Secret? and Death Row if you’re interested!

The Tenant is my most recent Freida read, and it definitely lives up to all the hype that precedes it. It falls in line with her usual outstanding quality of work – she always knows just the right moment to twist the narrative into a completely mind-blowing angle that her audience never sees coming. It’s layered with suspense and second-guessing, and whenever I read a Freida book, I always find myself questioning everything I thought I knew about the main characters in the immediate aftermath.

Usually, her work follows a strong female lead, but for a change of pace, this one tells the story of Blake, a young businessman in New York City who has it all: the recent promotion to vice president of the company, the beautiful fiancée, the newly purchased property in a nice part of the city. But all of that comes crashing down when he’s framed for selling classified information to a competitor – something he swears up and down he didn’t do. Barely holding his finances together (and unable to land a new position due to being blackballed all over the city), he and his fiancée decide to take in a tenant to offset some of their expenses. This is when Whitney moves in. At first, she seems like the classic girl-next-door type, but slowly, things around Blake’s house begin to take a more sinister turn.

This is a slow-burning page-turner that you’ll want to finish in one sitting, and every time you think you’ve got it all figured out, you’ll realize once again that you’re wrong. This book, along with most of Freida’s others, is available on both Amazon and Kindle Unlimited, so you don’t have to wait for a physical copy to miraculously become available at your local library! I’m always seeing people complain online that Freida McFadden books have endless library wait times, so grab a copy through my link today!