#1 KINDLE STORE BESTSELLER · 2026
Dear Debbie
by Freida McFadden — Kindle Edition
An advice columnist spends years telling other women to stay calm and be reasonable. Then her own life falls apart, and she stops taking her own advice. It became the year’s most-downloaded Kindle book.
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What the book is about
Debbie Mullen writes a newspaper advice column read across New England. For years her answer to unhappy wives has been patience, perspective, and the high road. Then she loses the column, her daughters start behaving strangely, and a tracking app tells her that her husband is not where he says he is.
So Debbie stops giving advice and starts settling accounts. What follows is a dark, fast, funny revenge story about a woman who has finally run out of politeness. It is the sixth novel-length thriller from the author behind The Housemaid, and it spent 2026 at the top of the Kindle chart.
A revenge plot you root for
Debbie is not a hero and not quite a villain, which is exactly why readers keep turning pages.
Built for one-sitting reading
Short chapters and steady twists, the pacing McFadden built her name on.
From the Housemaid author
Freida McFadden is translated into more than forty languages and reliably tops the thriller charts.
Book details
Author: Freida McFadden
Format: Kindle eBook (also in paperback, hardcover and audiobook)
Genre: Psychological thriller / suspense
Chart position: #1 Kindle Store bestseller of 2026