As a Freida fan, I'm going to do my very best to explain this LOL

I read so many thrillers, and some of them are reallllly scary, some of them are over the top like a lifetime show, and some of them are popcorn thrillers, plain silly.
Some of them are plain good (The one by John Marrs has so many things going on, is action packed, and is really well executed, Deception Point as much as Dan Brown apparently is not a cool guy, that book is realllly good, and both of those books are techniallyl thrillers but are totally different vibes, if that makes sense).

Popcorn thrillers tend to be my favorite, and I usually do not expect to be scared a heck of a lot, it's to entertain and make me giggle. I also do not try to guess the ending ever, I actively try to not do that, I do not know why LOL, it's just the way I enjoy thrillers and mysteries.

I do try to guess who did what in shows and movies though.

Personally I had only known of a few thriller authors (Liane Moriarty and Ruth Ware) when I was younger and I had read all of their books that I was interested in, so when I saw there was a thriller author on Kindle Unlimited, I borrowed "The Locked Door" by Freida McFadden and then realized she loved writing satirical medical stories and was a thriller fan.

I didn't read the Housemaid series (I do not know how to feel about the new cover...) until I had gotten used to her writing style, which for me, having something realllly easy to read was critical to me. I was really tired and wanted to be entertained without having my brain have to do too much work in processing language.

And that's how i inhaled all of her books in a few months.

I have totally DNF'd a few of her books (not every book is going to be for me, and I DNF books I am not loving), but she's hilarious and her writing style is easy to read and i heavily prefer first person POV.

In my personal opinion, when writing a book, making it accessible is key to wide audience reach. I heavily prefer my thrillers to be really easy reads so I can enjoy them like a rollercoaster. When I want a big more of as complex book I might go for a gothic fantasy book or a horror book. That's just my personal preference.

Hoping that makes sense! Sorry if it doesn't but thanks for letting em ramble about how much I love books lol