Dear Debbie - Freida McFadden

Title: Dear Debbie
Author: Freida McFadden
Genre: Suspense
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 336 pages
Date read: March 2026

Sometimes, enough is enough…

Debbie Mullen is losing it. For years, she has compiled all of her best advice into her column, Dear Debbie, where the wives of New England come for sympathy and neighborly advice. Through her work, Debbie has heard from countless women who are ignored, belittled, or even abused by their husbands. And Debbie does her best to guide them in the right direction.

Or at least, she did.

These days, Debbie’s life seems to be spiraling out of control. She just lost her job. Something strange is happening with her teenage daughters. And her husband is keeping secrets, according to the tracking app she installed on his phone. Now, Debbie’s done being the bigger person. She’s done being reasonable and practical. It’s time to take her own advice.

And now it’s time for payback against all the people in her life who deserve it the most.


Possibly even more twisted than "The Housemaid"! And I think I actually preferred this one. Apparently I'd rather read about twisted people than about abusive ones :-P

I hadn't seen any of the twists ahead of time, but Freida McFadden stayed on the right side of "jumping the shark" to make it work. It perhaps wasn't terribly believable, but it stayed true to its own universe, so it worked for me. '

Ridiculously readable - I breezed through it in a day.