A happy relaxed team in a recruitment office have a rude awakening when a new head of department is employed to improved their profitability. She certainly shakes them up, setting one against another, playing ruthless games and manipulating them mercilessly. She is a tyrant of the first order. In alternating chapters we get an American psychiatrist’s involvement with a dreadful case of child abuse and are left wondering how this all ties in and who in the tangled office might be that child grown up.
Hypnotic, at times harrowing and frightening this is a compulsive read. Office life is beautifully portrayed and the dysfunctional family’s case drip fed to us in mounting horror. It is very good.
A 'Piece of Passion' from the Publisher
'This is Tammy Cohen’s fourth novel of psychological suspense and it is absolutely her best. If you think your workplace politics are bad, just step into the toxic atmosphere of previously friendly colleagues who are appointed a new boss, Rachel, who is setting them up to hate each other. It is narrated by the different people in the work place (a recruitment office). Their stories alternate with one voice from the past, Anne - a psychiatrist who is advising on a horrific case of child abuse.
Anne is convinced this abused child, now in the hands of carers, may one day kill, but the male psychiatrist working on the case believes the child is safe for rehabilitation into the community. It is his advice that is followed. In the present day workplace, we the reader must guess which of the workmates is the young child, now grown up and in custody for murder of Rachel the nasty boss.
This edge-of-your-seat chiller is filled with people we feel we might know.
It’s a recommended read for all those GIRL ON THE TRAIN fans.' ~ Jane Lawson, Editorial Director, Doubleday Transworld Publishers
You see them every day. You know how your colleagues like their coffee. You know who breaks the copier and doesn't fix it.
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When She Was Bad was written by Tammy Cohen and published by Black Swan an imprint of Transworld Publishers Ltd
When She Was Bad has 380 pages
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