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The Inmate- Freida McFadden

Rating- 🤩🤩🤩🤩
Format- Ebook
Genre- Thriller

Originally, I had requested this book on NetGalley thinking that there was no way that I would be approved. I am really new to the world of requesting ARCs there and have been turned down from a lot of the more ‘famous’ authors. I was ecstatic when I was accepted as an ARC reader, especially since Freida McFadden is so well known in the world of thriller books. I really appreciate the opportunity.

Brooke Sullivan was a normal teenager. She was a cheerleader, had a group of friends, and she was madly in love with her boyfriend Shane Nelson. When Shane’s mom goes out of town, Brooke and her friends have a sleepover at his house. It seemed like it was going to be a normal night of drinking and pizza, it was going to be the first time that Brooke and Shane sleep together. Everything was perfect until one of her friends turns up dead, then another, and soon someone attacks Brooke. She manages to escape and her testimony of that night lands Shane in jail for killing the others.

Ten years later, she is the new nurse practitioner at a maximum security men’s prison. She recently moved back to her hometown with her 10 year old son Josh, into the house that she grew up in. Brooke had been estranged from her family for years but when both of her parents died, instead of selling their house she moved into it. When Brooke takes the job at the prison, she keeps one critical piece of information to herself. Shane is an inmate at the prison, locked away for life because of her testimony. When she gave her testimony, she was so sure that Shane was the one who killed their friends and attacked her but 10 years later she isn’t so sure. Brooke is about to find about what really happened that night, and it’s not at all what she had thought.

I didn’t want to give away the spoiler of who done it, so I will leave it on that cliffhanger for you to read. The thing about Freida is that she writes books that have a twist that you never see coming. When I read The Housemaid and The Housemaid’s Secret, I was so impressed when I was actually surprised at the ending. It was the same with this book. Just when you think you have it all figured out, something unexpected happens that you never saw coming. This book did not disappoint and it was a really exciting thriller.