Brain Damage by Freida McFadden

Category:Mystery/Suspense/Thriller

Rating:3.96/5 

Pages:384 

About the Book:

Brain Damage is a psychological thriller by #1 bestselling author Freida McFadden, whose novels are known for fast pacing, shocking twists, secrets, and unreliable perspectives. McFadden is also a physician specializing in brain injury, giving the novel an especially fitting medical and psychological foundation. The story explores memory, trauma, recovery, trust, and the frightening possibility that the mind may hide painful truths in order to protect itself.

The novel follows Dr. Charly McKenna, a successful dermatologist whose life changes completely when a bullet passes through her skull in an attempted murder. She wakes in a rehabilitation hospital unable to walk, speak, or remember her own identity, knowing only that someone wanted her dead. As fragments of her memory gradually return, Charly begins questioning the people around her, including her husband and an attentive man who repeatedly visits her. She must reconstruct what happened before the person who tried to kill her gets another chance.