The Divorce by Freida McFadden

The Divorce by Freida McFadden — Published by Poisoned Pen Press (May 26, 2026)

#1 New York Times Bestseller — from the author honored as one of TIME 100's most influential people in the world for 2026, and winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Paperback Original and the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Thriller.

McFadden brings readers into the world of suburban mom Naomi Roth as it's turned upside down when her husband Jeremy tricks her into moving out of their house and then initiates divorce proceedings. What begins as a devastating personal betrayal quickly mutates into something far darker. Jeremy is having an affair with Veronica — a beautiful younger woman — and as Naomi fights to hold onto her son, her home, and her sense of reality, she begins to suspect that someone is gaslighting her, and that danger is closing in from every direction. With three main characters who may each be unreliable narrators, the plot is packed with dark, gasp-inducing twists in a story about how highly emotional people engage in risky behavior to get what they want — but not everyone will survive.

A razor-sharp, subversive domestic thriller where love curdles into vengeance and survival becomes the most dangerous game of all, The Divorce delivers the relentless pacing, short punchy chapters, and jaw-dropping twists that have made McFadden one of the most compulsively readable thriller writers working today.

Freida McFadden is a #1 New York Times, #1 Sunday Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and internationally bestselling author and physician who lives in Boston with her family. Her novels have been translated into more than forty-five languages.