Is "The Housemaid Is Watching" the last book in the series?

Yes. It is positioned as the concluding installment of Millie’s story.

How much time has passed since the earlier books?

It is set roughly thirteen years after book 2, about seventeen years after the first book.

What’s Millie’s life like now?

She is married to Enzo, has two children (Nico and Ada), and works as a social worker in the suburbs.

What’s the setting?

A small suburban cul-de-sac shared with two other households, where the neighbors hide disturbing secrets.

Yes. It won the 2024 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Thriller.

Do I need to read the others first?

Yes. It resolves arcs that run across the whole series.

The Housemaid Is Watching

Reader reviews of The Housemaid Is Watching

Amal chebbi · 2026-05-04T10:00:22.000000Z

I still kind of enjoyed it, but I couldn’t turn a blind eye to the many issues of this book. The first third was boring. It didn’t feel like reading a thriller. Enzo and Millie are 12 years older in this book. I thought years were supposed to add wisdom, but these two only got stupider and more naive. Millie especially was aggravating. As someone who has spent a decade in jail, killed people, is supposed to be a badass, how oblivious can you be? And why was she such a pushover? Why did she just watch her next door neighbour continuously flirt with her husband and not say anything? It just pissed me off. The lack of communication between them was abhorring. I hate when books take everything that characterises a protagonist and just throw it out the window for the sake of a plot. These two are supposed to be soulmates, yet they failed to share very important things with each other. Particularly Enzo. How is the name Ada short for Antonia???????? Also, I hope I never have to read the term « cul-de-sac » every again in my life. My God was it overused in this book. The plot twist was just unsatisfactory and the epilogue underwhelming. Freida should’ve stopped at #2, maybe even #1.

Suspense Domestic Thriller

Pages: 400
Published: 2024
Language: English

Synopsis

Years after she left housekeeping behind, Millie has the life she once couldn’t imagine: married to Enzo, mother to two children, and working as a social worker. The family moves into a house on a quiet suburban cul-de-sac shared with just two other households, a fresh start in a neighborhood that looks like everything they’ve earned.

But the polished surface cracks quickly. Millie senses she’s being watched, and the more she learns about the people next door, the clearer it becomes that her new neighbors are hiding secrets as dark as anything in her own past.

Told partly through new perspectives and set well after the earlier books, the third installment brings Millie’s story to a close with the series’ trademark reversals, this time trading the claustrophobia of a single grand house for the curated menace of suburbia.

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