Books Like The Coworker

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Alyson Krawchuk narrates McFadden's workplace thriller with a performance that splits cleanly between the two women at the story's center — the sociable, surface-confident sales rep and the quiet, eccentric coworker read as genuinely distinct, and the eight-hour runtime keeps the paranoia efficiently paced. Ten other McFadden novels fill the recommendations, which means this list is essentially a complete guide to the author's output for anyone who wants to stay in that same unreliable-, domestic-suspense register.

10 books for fans of The Coworker

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    The Surrogate Mother

    by Freida McFadden

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    After years of failed fertility treatments, Abby gratefully accepts when her personal assistant Monica offers to carry her baby. But Monica has been lying about her identity, and her real motives for helping Abby are far more sinister than generous.

    3.91 Goodreads (359.9K ratings)
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    One by One

    by Freida McFadden

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    A couples' retreat in the mountains becomes a deadly trap when Claire's group gets stranded and people start dying one by one. McFadden builds claustrophobic tension as friends turn into suspects in the wilderness.

    3.84 Goodreads (470.9K ratings)
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    The Housemaid

    The Housemaid • Book 1

    by Freida McFadden

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    A broke ex-convict becomes housemaid to a wealthy couple, but the picture-perfect family harbors twisted secrets that put her in mortal danger. McFadden constructs a psychological thriller where domestic duties become survival tactics and trust proves deadly.

    4.35 Goodreads (1.1K ratings)
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    The Housemaid's Secret

    The Housemaid • Book 2

    by Freida McFadden

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    McFadden's thriller traps her protagonist between employers who might be dangerous and a past that could destroy her if discovered.

    4.16 Goodreads (1.8M ratings)
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    Never Lie

    by Freida McFadden

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    McFadden weaves a claustrophobic thriller where house-hunting newlyweds become snowed-in detectives, uncovering their missing host's dark therapeutic practices through hidden recordings.

    4.08 Goodreads (1.5M ratings)
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    The Wife Upstairs

    by Freida McFadden

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    After a terrible accident leaves Victoria paralyzed and unable to speak, she's confined to her home's top floor with round-the-clock care. McFadden explores the horror of being trapped in your own body while dark secrets about the accident emerge.

    4.03 Goodreads (293.9K ratings)
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    Dear Debbie

    by Freida McFadden

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    What happens when a beloved advice columnist realizes her well-meaning guidance has been destroying lives? McFadden explores the dark side of good intentions with her signature psychological twists.

    4.02 Goodreads (244.1K ratings)
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    The Inmate

    by Freida McFadden

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    Taking a job at a men's maximum-security prison, nurse Brooke Sullivan must hide her intimate past connection to inmate Shane Nelson while following strict professional boundaries.

    4.00 Goodreads (1.1M ratings)
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    The Perfect Son

    by Freida McFadden

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    Erika's perfect suburban life crumbles when police suspect her son Liam in a classmate's disappearance. McFadden explores how well parents really know their children.

    3.99 Goodreads (527.0K ratings)
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    Brain Damage

    by Freida McFadden

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    Charly McKenna's bullet wound steals her career and marriage, but her damaged brain might be showing her truths she never saw before.

    3.97 Goodreads (159.8K ratings)