The Coworker
Freida McFadden, 2023
Mystery, thriller & crime Contemporary fiction
The office oddball doesn't show up for work, and the colleague who barely spoke to her is suddenly the one everyone suspects.
About death.
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What it means when the most predictable person you know doesn't appear.
As strange as Dawn’s schedule is, it’s even stranger that today she isn’t following it. I can’t help but think that Dawn’s absence must signify something ominous. After all, Dawn is never late. Never. Freida McFadden.McFadden is a practising physician, a specialist in brain injury, who wrote novels on the side for years before The Housemaid made her a bestseller.
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