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The Coworker

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER

"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: 6.91

770 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

MCarter59
Mar 31, 2025
10/10 stars
Well written and very interesting. Made me want to keep eeading!
aviationmet
Mar 31, 2025
6/10 stars
I'm not usually very good at figuring out McFadden's plot twists before they are revealed, but this one I nailed early on in the book. There was enough to the story and ick factor in several of the characters to keep me reading - if for no other reason than to see if my predictions were correct. Okay, but not my favorite read of hers.
Lauralee🧚‍♀️
Mar 25, 2025
6/10 stars
This book was very much plot driven from beginning until it hit part two. The development of this story from that point just felt off and rushed when so much was dragged on in the first part. It always seems as if the main characters can magically read minds and discover how to get themselves out of the situation so fast. All in all, the book was entertaining, got a couple laughs, this book did not seem like its genre at all. Why does the killer have a happy ending?
Michelle R.
Mar 22, 2025
10/10 stars
I freaking love it
Booksoverpeople2025
Mar 08, 2025
2/10 stars
I finished this book in hopes I would fall in love with this as I have all the other books I've read of hers. But I couldn't. I could not understand what the hype was about this book.

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