5 Psychological Suspense Books Featuring Caregivers, Nannies, and Maids
By Jaclyn Goldis
No one knows a family’s secrets more intimately than their staff. The nanny knows what makes the children tick or what food to prepare to make them happy. The housekeeper knows the best places to hide a body. In these tales, care givers sign up for more than what they’ve bargained for. Everyone is hiding their darkest secrets from each other, but no secret can stay hidden forever, especially when dead bodies start turning up. In these psychological suspense novels, protagonists must rely on their wits, instincts, cunning, and proximity to decipher the truth from lies if they want to make it out alive.
In this Gothic chiller, a young woman is assigned to care for Lenora, a woman accused of the Hope family murders that took place decades ago. Now, after a series of strikes, Lenora is confined to a wheelchair and communicates with Kit McDeere by typing on an old typewriter. Lenora is ready to tell Kit everything about the massacre and the tale Kit learns is very different from the one people know. But when Kit finds out how her predecessor left, she realizes Lenora may not be telling the complete truth and that Lenora may be more dangerous than she thought.
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The new housemaid at the Winchesters pretends to be what the family needs. Millie picks up their daughter, cooks for the family, and tries to overlook the increasingly strange happenings with the family. It’s hard not to imagine what her life could be like in Nina’s shoes, with the walk-in closet and perfect husband. One day when she decides to try on one of Nina’s dresses, her reality is turned upside down and she finds out too late when she learns her bedroom door locks from the outside. The Winchesters may be dangerous, but they don’t know what Millie is truly capable of.
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When Rowan Caine stumbles on a job posting for a live-in nanny, the job seems too good to be true with its generous salary. The Heatherbrae House is fitted with smart appliances and is home to a picture-perfect family. Unfortunately, it becomes a nightmare with a child dead and Rowan in prison awaiting trial for murder. Under the tense, constant surveillance from cameras around the house, the house’s technological malfunctions become more apparent. The children aren’t as well-mannered as when she first met them. But Rowan is in no way innocent, behaving toward the children in less than ideal ways and lying to obtain the post. But she certainly isn’t capable of murder. Will she be able to find the killer before her life is completely ruined.
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Trade Paperback
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With a lack of social skills and awareness of others’ intentions, Molly Gray isn’t like anyone else. Since her Gran passed away, she’s been trying to navigate life’s complexities on her own and throws herself into her work as a housekeeper at the Regency Grand Hotel. Just when she finally finds her footing, it’s upended when she enters Charles Black’s suite, with the man himself dead in his bed. She becomes the police’s lead suspect and gets entangled in a web of deception. Fortunately, friend she didn’t know she had join forces with her to find the truth.
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After having children, Myriam decides to go to work as a lawyer. She and her husband never imagined finding such a perfect nanny. Enter Louise: quiet, devoted, and willing to stay late. As Louise and the family grow more and more dependent of each other, suspicions and jealousies arise. The Perfect Nanny is a riveting exploration of power, race, class, domesticity, and motherhood.
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