David Beck has just received an email from his dead wife... The thriller which made SUNDAY TIMES No.1 bestselling author Harlan Coben a household name.
Harlan Coben is an international number one bestselling thriller author. He is the winner of the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards - the first to receive all three. His books are published in forty languages, with over forty-seven million copies in print worldwide. Both his standalone thrillers and series featuring the indomitable Myron Bolitar have been number one bestsellers in over a dozen countries, gracing the lists of the Sunday Times and the New York Times. His novel TELL NO ONE was turned into the smash hit French film of the same name, and received the highly coveted Lumiere (French Golden Globe) for best picture as well as four Cesars (French Oscar). Harlan lives in New Jersey with his family. www.harlancoben.com
A pulsing, pacy, devour-at-one-sitting thriller . . . Coben grabs
you with the opening paragraph and never lets you go. A class
act
*OBSERVER*
A thriller that recalls Vertigo. If the resolution of the mystery
is more straightforward than Hitchcock's, it gains resonance
because it keeps coming back to family issues
*TELEGRAPH*
This book will keep you up until 2 a.m.
*TIMES*
Highly suspenseful thriller, high on excitement
*LITERARY REVIEW*
Intelligent and gripping this is a real white-knuckle read of a
thriller
*DAILY MAIL*
Harlan Coben writes brilliant page-turners. Try Tell No One, a
guaranteed one-sitting read, then catch up on his earlier
masterpieces of crime storytelling
*SUNDAY HERALD*
If you like a good page-turner, you'll love this. The story of a
dead wife sending her husband an e-mail eight years after her
murder and the chain of events that follows will have you on the
edge of your seat. A fast-paced thriller of the highest order
*FAMILY CIRCLE*
Highly suspenseful thriller, high on excitement
*LITERARY REVIEW*
A pulsing, pacy, devour-at-one-sitting thriller ... Coben grabs you
with the opening paragraph and never lets you go. A class act
*OBSERVER*
A thriller that recalls Vertigo. If the resolution of the mystery
is more straightforward than Hitchcock's, it gains resonance
because it keeps coming back to family issues
*TELEGRAPH*
Intelligent and gripping this is a real white-knuckle read of a
thriller
*DAILY MAIL*
This book will keep you up until 2am
*TIMES PLAY*
Coben's style is as relaxed as ever, but he still manages to make
this a story which is hard to put down
*SUNDAY TELEGRAPH*
Every writer likes to stretch his legs, and here Coben, author of seven acclaimed Myron Bolitar mysteries (Darkest Fear, etc.), stretches his. He doesn't quite kick his reputation aside in the process. This thriller, Coben's first non-Bolitar novel, is a breezy enough read, but it's not up to snuff. It's got a nifty setup, though. David Beck and Elizabeth Parker, just-married childhood sweethearts, are vacationing at the Beck family retreat when Beck is knocked unconscious and Elizabeth is kidnapped. Cut to eight years later: Beck is a young physician working with ghetto kids in Manhattan, and Elizabeth, we learn, is dead, victim of a serial killer known as KillRoy. Or is she? For immediately after two bodies eight years old are uncovered on the Beck land, Beck receives a series of e-mails apparently from Elizabeth. His frantic search to find out if she lives dovetails with the equally frenzied efforts of cops to pin Elizabeth's murder on Beck, as well as the antic moves of a mysterious billionaire an old friend of the Beck family and his two hired thugs to frame Beck for that murder. Beck finds himself a man on the run from the cops his only ally a black drug dealer whose child he's treating for hemophilia caught in an overcomplicated tangle of lies and vengeance. Coben knows how to move pages, and he generates considerable suspense, but there's little new here. The narrative style is cloned from James Patterson, alternating first-person with third. The villains, particularly the billionaire and a Chinese martial artist, are as old as mid-Elmore Leonard or even Chandler. The black drug dealer isn't a character, he's a plot device, and the climax packs the emotional wallop of a strong episode of The Rockford Files. (June 19) Forecast: Heavy-hitting blurbs from Jeffery Deaver and Phillip Margolin, among others, indicate more about the solidarity of the mystery community than about this book's excellence, but should attract browsers. The publisher will pitch this as a summer beach read, and it's not a bad one. In fact, it may outsell Coben's mysteries, despite its flaws. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Coben briefly abandons protagonist Myron Bolitar for this story of a man who lost his bride to a serial killer, only to find himself implicated in her murder eight years later. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
A pulsing, pacy, devour-at-one-sitting thriller . . . Coben
grabs you with the opening paragraph and never lets you go. A
class act * OBSERVER *
A thriller that recalls Vertigo. If the resolution of
the mystery is more straightforward than Hitchcock's, it gains
resonance because it keeps coming back to family issues * TELEGRAPH
*
This book will keep you up until 2 a.m. * TIMES *
Highly suspenseful thriller, high on excitement * LITERARY REVIEW
*
Intelligent and gripping this is a real white-knuckle read of a
thriller * DAILY MAIL *
Harlan Coben writes brilliant page-turners. Try Tell No One,
a guaranteed one-sitting read, then catch up on his earlier
masterpieces of crime storytelling * SUNDAY HERALD *
If you like a good page-turner, you'll love this. The story
of a dead wife sending her husband an e-mail eight years after her
murder and the chain of events that follows will have you on the
edge of your seat. A fast-paced thriller of the highest
order * FAMILY CIRCLE *
Highly suspenseful thriller, high on excitement * LITERARY REVIEW
*
A pulsing, pacy, devour-at-one-sitting thriller ... Coben grabs you
with the opening paragraph and never lets you go. A class act *
OBSERVER *
A thriller that recalls Vertigo. If the resolution of the
mystery is more straightforward than Hitchcock's, it gains
resonance because it keeps coming back to family issues * TELEGRAPH
*
Intelligent and gripping this is a real white-knuckle read of a
thriller * DAILY MAIL *
This book will keep you up until 2am * TIMES PLAY *
Coben's style is as relaxed as ever, but he still manages to make
this a story which is hard to put down * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
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