Thriller
The Housemaid
A woman desperate for work takes a live-in job cleaning for a wealthy family in a perfect house. Things quickly feel wrong, as the wife behaves unpredictably and the husband appears kind, but she is not telling the full story either.
- First published
- 2022
- Pace
- fast
- Length
- medium
- Format
- Standalone
Read this if you want a quick, twisty, addictive thriller with a narrator you will second-guess.
Skip this if you want realistic characters or dislike thrillers that rely on sharp reversals.
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