Earlier this year I read 'The Wife Upstairs' from Freida McFadden. I had never read any of her books before, but after reading some of the reviews and a short introduction, I decided to go and read that book. And it wasn't a bad choice. The book was a real page turner for me. I read it in less than a week. When I finished another book last week and I was looking for something new to read, I came across some other books of Freida McFadden. She has written a couple of more psychological thrillers and I chose 'The teacher' to be the next book I was going to read.

The story

The book begins with a scene in a dark forest where 'a person' is burrying 'a body'. There are no clues about who this person or the body might be. The 'person' does mentioning that 'someone' is helping him/her. And then the story jumps 3 months back in time.

The story continues with a 16 year old Addie on her first day of the new school year. There were some issues between her and a teacher in the year before which caused the teacher to get fired. What it was isn't clear, but because of the situation, the girl is being bullied. She obiously hates school, but when her charming English teacher Nate, finds out she is good in writing poems, she joins his extra class.

Another part of the story is told from the viewpoint of Eve, the wife of Nate, the English teacher. They are both not very happy in their relationship. Eve is having an affair with a shoe salesman and Nate is getting closer with Addie.

Because I don't want to spoil too much I'll leave it with this.

My opninion

Just like the book I read earlier, this again is a page turner. It took me less than a week again to finish this book. From the start of the book with the burrying of the body I wanted to know who this was and who was being burried. Throughout the book there are many persons that could be the one being burried or the one that is burrying the body. As I already experienced in the first book, Freida Mc Fadden is genious in making plot twists. Things are often not what they seem to be. This really makes it a very enjoyable book. If you are a fan of phychological thrillers, I can really recommend the books of Freida Mc Fadden. At least the titles I've read (The women upstairs & The teacher). She has written a couple of more books in the same genre and these are surely on my 'reading list'.

Have you read any books from Freide Mc Fadden? Or did you even read this book? Let me know what you think about it in the comments!

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