The Coworker – Book Review

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.

This wasn’t Freida McFadden’s best book in my opinion and probably one of the books that I gave the lowest rating on (I always give her books four to five stars)

Natalie is working in a company called Vixed and she is a successful saleswoman. One day, Natalie notices that her co-worker Dawn Schiff is missing. Dawn is very meticulous and punctual and so it was very unusual that Dawn would miss work. Not to mention that Dawn had arranged to meet her boss Seth in the afternoon and she even sent an email to Natalie, asking her to meet. However, Dawn did not turn up in the afternoon meeting either and Natalie sets out to find out what really happened to Dawn by going to her house. There she finds a pool of blood lying on the floor of the living room. Someone has done something horrible to Dawn Schiff. And when the police were contacted, the police suspect that Natalie must have done something to Dawn.

This was not really a great thriller. The story is told in Natalie’s POV with Dawn’s emails providing the backdrop of the story. The twist and turns were not really great in my opinion and the ending wasn’t really great either. This wasn’t her greatest thriller but then it wasn’t bad either. Compared to her other thrillers, that is.

Overall this is worth 3.5 stars.