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.
From #1 New York Times and international bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a biting, subversive thriller about what happens when women finally choose to take justice into their own hands – with killer results.
Book Info: 338 Pages. Publication Date: 27 January 2026
My Thoughts:
Freida McFadden’s latest book promises everything I adore in psychological thrillers; a slightly bat-sh*t crazy female protagonist who is hell bent on revenge, slightly delusional, but very, very entertaining and yet dark and disturbing enough to shock.
Dear Debbie delivers all this and more. A thoroughly entertaining novel which is equally dark in humour and consequences. Meet Debbie Mullen, on the surface she is an ordinary wife and mother in a small town in Massachusetts. Having dropped out of MIT due to a trauma, she now uses her brain and intellect to run her household and also writes a weekly advice column for a local newspaper.
Growing disillusioned and unsatisfied with her life, Debbie starts to cross the boundary between rational and terrifyingly psychopathic behaviour when her perfect life starts to crash around her which includes losing her job at the paper, her husband not getting a promotion and her neighbour stealing a garden feature in a local magazine. This is car-crash literature at it’s best. You can’t help Debbie’s decline, but you can’t stop reading.
I’m not going to give away exactly what Debbie does, but with the usual McFadden mischief, you can expect laughs, twists and jaw-dropping shocks which literally kept me reading this book in two sittings.
Fast-paced, funny, shocking, dark, disturbing and shows why this author deserves all the recognition and success she has.
