Published: March 9, 2026
Book: The Inmate
Author: Freida McFadden
# of pages: 336
Freida McFadden is a best-selling American author, known for her thriller novels. McFadden is also a physician specializing in traumatic brain injury.
Whether you have read a Freida McFadden book or not, The Inmate is truly an unimaginable experience for your mind. The gripping details that come from this author are out of the ordinary. The characters are very complex yet easy to understand. In this gripping psychological thriller, The Inmate follows the life of nurse practitioner Brooke Sullivan. With a troubled past hopefully behind her, she moves back to her hometown after news of her parents’ death. She lives in her childhood home with her 10-year-old son, Josh. Brooke is happy to start her new life and get a job at the state penitentiary as a nurse practitioner. We very quickly learn that someone from her past is an inmate at the penitentiary, someone that she helped put in there. This book flips back and forth between Brooke’s past and her current life, with every chapter serving as an entrance to a new and twisted part of Brooke’s unimaginable life.Â
This book is very easy to read and keeps you in a constant state of wonder. If you like Freida McFadden’s other books, this needs to be next on your list. And if you have not had the pleasure of reading one of her novels, then perhaps this is where you need to start.Â
The Inmate is available everywhere, including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and even Books-A-Million.
