
BPL · Book · 2025
The tenant
Freida McFadden
Blake Porter is riding high, until he's not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make his mortgage payments on his new brownstone, he's desperate to make ends meet for his fiancee, Krista. Enter: Whitney. Beautiful, charming, down-to-earth, and looking for a room to rent, she's exactly what Blake's looking for. Or is she? Because something isn't quite right. The neighbors start treating Blake differently. The smell of decay permeates the kitchen, no matter how hard he scrubs. And Whitney claims she knows what he's done.... Soon it's obvious that danger lives right at home. And by the time Blake realizes it, it'll be far too late. He'll be dead before he realizes the trap is set"--
- Demand pressureDemand pressure: composite score across the 12 tracked branches — rewards low availability, branches all out, recent drops, and (when exposed) public hold counts. Higher = harder to get borough-wide.
- 830
- Available
- 0/13
- Branches all out
- 9/9
- Public holdsPublic holds: BPL exposes 'people waiting' at the bib (record) level — one number per work for the entire 60+ branch BPL system, NOT just the 12 tracked branches. We capture the number when it's there. 'Not exposed' means BPL didn't expose it on this scrape — we never substitute zero for missing data.
- not exposed
ISBN 9781464227318
NYT Bestseller
Trade Paperback Fiction
- Weeks on list
- 8 weeks
- Peak rank
- #8
- reached Oct 18, 2025
- Last rank
- #15
- Dec 20, 2025
Source: NYT Best Sellers. List membership is national, not Brooklyn-specific.
Current availability across the 12 tracked branches
| Branch | Available | Total | Holds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Ridge | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Bedford | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Brooklyn Heights | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Bushwick | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Coney Island | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Crown Heights | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Flatbush | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Sunset Park | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Williamsburgh | 0 | 1 | 0 |
7-day movement
Recent movement

Crown Heights · 1 → 0 available

Crown Heights · 0 → 1 available