Description: how well do you really know your coworkers? Dawn is known to be awkward and strange at the office but when one day she doesn’t show up at work, her beautiful coworker Natalie finds this unusual and feels the need to investigate. However, her interest in Dawn’s absence ends up getting her into a dangerous game of cat and mouse and caught in the messy web of secrets that Dawn holds.

my thoughts:
Another easy Freida book that I devoured! Thank you @netgalley for the ARC! I knew I’d love this because a) all Freida books are so easy to read and b) the description hooked me right away. I was instantly absorbed as soon as I picked the book up and loved how the twist unfolded. Was it jaw dropping and mind blowing like some of her other books I loved? No. Yet, it was still an easy and hard to put down thriller!

One of my favourite Freida McFadden books!!

Great disability & mental health representation

This made me so emotional at the same time it was realistic in a sense.

So worth the wait!

Let me start by saying that I am a huge Freida McFadden fan. I have read all but one of her thriller novels now. The Coworker was a fun, fast paced read that I struggled to put down. It had some really good twists that caught me completely off guard. I highly recommend reading this book, as well as all her others. Thank you so much for the opportunity to read this ARC!

A toxic workplace within a corporate organization that allows bullying to pervade their small little cubicles is a psychological nightmare.
"Secrets bind people together..."
With unlovable characters all the way to the finish and turtles all the way down, my head is spinning...for real! This author is one of my faves, however a character like Dawn who is obsessed with turtles got under my skin. As an accountant, she was tremendously obnoxious when she crawled under everyone else's skin, and she is now missing. Natalie's bully is arrested after being presumed dead by evidence in her home.
When Natalie is jailed for her murder, the narrative thickens and the story takes unexpected turns. Excellent work! You created a mystery around turtles and e-mails that left an incriminating path, but that ending!!!!

The Coworker
by Freida McFadden
Pub Date: 29 Aug 2023
McFadden does it again. This fast-paced thriller has a twists and turns to keep you guessing til the end.
Natalie is the gorgeous,hardworking, top sales person for a supplement company. New-hire Dawn is the nerdy math-minded, turtle-obsessed accountant. Natalie befriends Dawn and does her best to tolerant all her idiosyncrasies.
Then one day, the always punctual Dawn doesn't show up for work.. When half a day has gone by and she hasn't answered her phone and no one has heard from her, Vanessa feels she should go over to dawn's house and check on her. The discovery she makes inside the house has the cops asking Natalie a ton of questions. Siddlenlu, she becomes #1 on suspect list..
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This is probably the closest I got to figure out Freidas twist! Well written book. I don't know who I dislike more in this book Caleb, nat, or Dawn. Well written and kept me entertained until the end. Bravo!

Like every other Freida McFadden book I've read, I couldn't put it down! This was such an entertaining, fast- paced read.
As the characters develop you discover more and more secrets and connections. I couldn't put it down!
Thank you to netgalley and Poisoned Pen Press for this ARC!
This comes out August 29 and you need to check it out!

I really really enjoyed this book up until the last page. It’s one of those where you can put it down until you figure everything out. And anything you guess throughout the book is wrong the twists are great and will have you guessing the entire time ! Loved it

The coworker
This book blew my mind. I don’t normally read mystery books like ever but I needed a change of pace and this book brought me out of my slump. I don’t even know how to review this book without spoiling it. So I’m going to just say, if you think you know what’s happening, you don’t!

Another amazing book by Freida! I was very happy to be chosen to read an ARC of Freida’s new book!

Just think about how much time you spend with your coworkers. You see them every day at work. You socialize with them, eat with them, solve problems with them. But do you really know them? Do you know what kind of people they are? Do you know what they are capable of? Are you sure?

This book has the “weird coworker”, the popular coworker who is always over-exceeding but no one really knows how, and the not so trustworthy boss. When the “weird one” goes missing, everyone starts speculating what really happened to her. Was it the crooked boss or the overachiever? Was it someone else? Who had a motive?

But not everything is what it seems in this book - which is true of all Freida’s books. This book will have you guessing until the end. And even after you find out what is really going on, Freida adds some more surprises at the end.

What are your co-workers capable of?

My first ever ARC! I was so elated to get to read The Coworker pre-release, and it did not disappoint!

I have fully enjoyed each of Frieda’s books that I have read, and I am convinced that she only gets better with time.
The Coworker was a fun ride from beginning to end. In it, Freida strikes a perfect balance of memorable, quirky characters, mystery that keeps you guessing, a fast-paced storyline, and twists that leave you reeling.
Early on, I thought I had it figured out, but knew it was too easy so I just sat back and let Freida surprise me!

The ending had me gasping as each event unfolded!
Though in keeping with Freida’s excellent writing style and page-turning pace, the ending of The Coworker felt different to me from her other books. I was left with the impression that she is simply a master of her craft.

Thank you to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for the advance copy. I can’t wait for release day on August 29!

I enjoyed The Coworker and finished it in about a day. Dawn and her turtles will stick with me for a long time. I enjoy the author's sense of humor and will continue to pick up her books as they come out. She also has an uncanny ability to make you really hate a character and deliver a great twist.

It's always exciting to get approved for an ARC, especially for one of my favorite authors. Thank you to Net Galley and the publisher for this advance copy.

Another winner by Frieda McFadden. This thriller had some really good twists. The writing flowed and I was hooked from the first page. An unreliable narrator, sympathetic characters, and some really good turns make this a great end of the summer beach read!

Freida does it again!

Another fast-paced suspenseful thriller that kept the pages turning. The book kept me guessing the entire time and the twists were impossible to guess! Highly recommend!

Freida McFadden is my favorite thriller author and this book was just as addicting as her others! I will say, the beginning felt a bit slower to me than most of her others, but if definitely picked up about half way through. This was also the first of her books (I’ve read almost all of them) that I guessed one of the plot twists in. I don’t think it took away from my enjoyment though, as it was still super entertaining and the other twists shocked me. Overall, a fun reading experience and got me out of my slump! Will continue to read anything she writes.

Every Freida book I read makes me want to go on a thriller binge, and this book did the same.

While it took me a little to get into, at about the 40% mark things starting coming together and I was hooked.

In pure Freida fashion, I thought I had it all figured out…only to have my theory kind of happen but not in the way I thought it would happen and then it was blown wide open.

If you enjoy psychological thrillers and a wild ride, I think you will enjoy this in one sitting.

This is another fabulous Frieda McFadden book, full of interesting, quirky characters and twisty plots!
The story revolves around two women in an office, who sit in adjacent cubbies.
Natalie is the beautiful and popular superstar sales rep, and Dawn is the quiet, awkward, turtle obsessed accountant. The two are not exactly friends, but when Dawn fails to show up for work, it’s Natalie who looks for her.
Thus begins the bizarre events surrounding Dawn’s disappearance.
There are several “suspects” which keep the reader guessing. Of course, there are several twists as well, before the exciting ending and epilogue!
Thank you, NetGalley and Poisoned Pen publishers for the ARC and the opportunity to review this book!
5 stars!!

This was my first thriller and from start to finish I was absolutely enthralled. For all of part one, I was boomeranging on who I thought was behind the “murder” of Dawn. I found myself speculating every detail, and trying to find any possible Easter egg, or foreshadowing so I could solve the mystery myself. The twists and turns of this book did not stop coming, and I can 100% say with certainty, that I did not expect that ending. I devoured this book in one sitting and will without a doubt be reading more of this authors work.

Amazing!!!!

Not far into the book, I was like this is totally gonna end up being “this”. And it was. BUT it wasn’t! Freida seems to have intentionally written this book for you to think you’ve got it all figured out. And you do. Until you don’t lol. Seriously, how many twists or “but wait, there’s more” moments can a book have??? And I’m not mad at a single one of them.

This book is a must read! A fun roller coaster of a ride that I’m sad ended so soon.

Wow!! This was book was SO GOOD! I’ve been on a Freida binge so getting an early copy of one of her newest books was such a shock but perfectly timed. I was wanting something fresh from her and this was it! I loved the many plot twists and that despite that it was super easy to keep up with the plot. I loved the dual timelines in this book and the email formatting within the book, too. I found it a bit obnoxious when we had to read pages and pages and info on turtles but I understand that was for to give us an idea of this characters obsession with them. I just found myself getting really sleepy during those parts, LOL.

Other than that, the plot development was great. There was something chilling about the internal monologue of Natalie even though she isn’t meant to be creepy in this book. I just still feel like I don’t believe everything she’s said in the book, I’ve got trust issues… what can I say?