The Coworker

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Housemaid!

"Don't start a Freida McFadden book late at night. You won't be able to put it down!"-- Natalie Barelli, bestselling author of Unforgivable

Two women. An office filled with secrets. One terrible crime that can't be taken back.

Dawn Schiff is strange.

At least, everyone thinks so at Vixed, the nutritional supplement company where Dawn works as an accountant. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m.

So when Dawn doesn't show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrell--beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running--is surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything...

It turns out Dawn wasn't just an awkward outsider--she was being targeted by someone close. And now Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn as she finds herself caught in a twisted game of cat and mouse that leaves her wondering: who's the real victim?

But one thing is incredibly clear: somebody hated Dawn Schiff. Enough to kill.

The Coworker is a tense, unputdownable thriller from New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden that explores the dark ways the past can echo through the present--with deadly consequences.

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368 pages

Average rating: 6.98

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Blueeyedfriaz

Oct 26, 2023

10/10 stars

This is the first book that I have read by Freida McFadden, so far this book by her was really good. It really had me in the end he if my seat the whole time and making me think and get into the mystery of what was going on. In the last few chapters of the book it’s really had me shocked that Dawn would have sat there and framed Natalie for her own murder for something that had happened 14-15 years ago. Especially when Natalie was trying to make it up to Mia who she bullied so bad that Mia ended her own life, with a 5K run for the disability that Mia had. In the end everything has been out to where somewhat of everything should be Natalie not in Jail for a murder that she didn’t do, even tho that she did indeed steel from her job and her boss Seth doesn’t know that she did when she put the money back. And then Dawn getting some more friends when she was all alone also getting engaged to her best friend’s brother, though she had killed someone in the process of trying to frame Natalie for a murder that she didn’t do

AShroom

Oct 22, 2023

9/10 stars

It was a page turner and kept me guessing. I enjoyed it until the end, it didn't wrap up as well as it could have.

Katiemayeller

Oct 18, 2023

7/10 stars

With Freida, there's always a twist you don't see coming!

Lbrandenburgh4

Oct 18, 2023

8/10 stars

Did not the that ending coming! As always Freida did an excellent job keeping me guessing until the end.

Nesie.marie

Oct 12, 2023

7/10 stars

I highly anticipated this being a 4 or 5 star read because Freida really did it for me with The Housemaid & The Housemaids Secret. While it isn’t a 4/5 star for me, I would give it a solid 3.5 stars. The book was interesting enough that I wanted to keep reading it, but it didn’t have me in a chokehold to pick it up every chance I had. Some of the plot twists, I seen coming. I definitely thought that Caleb was suspect, even though he acted like lying to the police was an incredibly wrong thing to do. Something just didn’t seem right with him. I also knew that Dawn wasn’t completely innocent either. When I was reading the emails that she wrong to Mia, I was assuming that either she was lying about how mean Nat was or that Nat was being mean to her but the person she was writing to didn’t exist. I felt like maybe Mia didn’t exist because her emails were always so truncated compared to the emails Dawn sent. It just didn’t seem like real responses to her drawn out emails. I did go back and forth though, trying to figure out if Nat was actually mean or if Dawn was just crazy. However, I was surprised about the twist in the Epilogue with Nat. I did not see that coming. I’d recommend this book as a good casual read.