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Book club questions · Chapters 1–5

The Housemaid Is Watching book club questions

For the first 5 chapters, the way a good group chat asks them: a quick take-a-side question first, then one to chew on. This page stops at chapter 5, so nothing here spoils what comes after.

by Freida McFadden2024 · 82 chapters · 398 pages · Poisoned Pen Press
Cover of The Housemaid Is Watching by Freida McFadden

Chapter 1

  1. Running from the doorbell with blood on both hands: smart call or the worst one?
  2. Which hits harder in that blood-soaked living room, the dead body or the visitor's hand already turning the unlocked knob?
  3. The visitor rings twice then just tries the door, so how much do the speaker's frozen silence and that unlocked door tell us about who this caller is to them?

Chapter 2

  1. Snapped shutters after Millie's wave: plain rude or just a shy neighbor?
  2. Millie is busy loving the house while Nico throws a baseball at the walls, so why does that silhouette at 13 Locust land as the chapter's real chill?

Chapter 3

  1. Suzette's worst dig: the pregnancy guess, calling the house small, or the phrasing lesson?
  2. Suzette insults Millie four ways then invites the whole family to dinner, so which of those moments stings most and why does the invite still land?
  3. Suzette praises Enzo and warns about watchful Janice in the same breath, so what's she actually after with Millie on day one?

Chapter 4

  1. Millie caving on the praying mantis egg that hatches hundreds: sweet or a mistake?
  2. Ada barely touching her takeout while Nico lobbies for the bus and the mantis, which kid's first-dinner behavior worries more?
  3. Millie won't stop saying christen at the new kitchen table, so what is she trying so hard to make this dinner mean?

Chapter 5

  1. Lights out because of bare windows facing 13 Locust: sensible or already paranoid?
  2. The bed joke dies the second Millie remembers the bare picture windows, so what makes that turn from flirting to fear land so hard?
  3. Below asking price, a dream house, and Millie still can't relax in her own bedroom on night one, so what's really getting to her?

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