The CoWorker

Dawn Schiff reaches her desk at 8:45 every single morning, so the day she fails to appear, the whole office notices. Natalie Farrell, the polished top sales rep, takes an anonymous call that turns an absence into something criminal. Freida McFadden sets the two women against each other through workplace detail, the gossip, the small humiliations and the paper trail each of them leaves behind, while the question of who was really being targeted keeps shifting. The result works as a portrait of office cruelty at least as much as a missing-person mystery. Worth noting: • Two contrasting female leads whose accounts pull in opposite directions • An office environment used as both crime scene and motive • Brief chapters and shifting testimony that keep the pace high • A standalone thriller from the author of the Housemaid novels Suited to readers of workplace suspense and to anyone who enjoys a mystery with an unreliable cast. Available at Boipoka.