Over the last few years, Harlan Coben has pretty much cornered the market on the middle-class suburban New Jersey family thriller genre. Some will survive and some will not but even for the survivors life will never be the same.Ī high speed thriller that will keep you glued and guessing right to the very end. When that collision happens it will become a force of nature. Six very different stories all with one thing in common, they are all racing towards the same collision point. Then last, but definitely not least, there is the monster with the worst case of uncontrolled anger you have ever seen. Then there is the much respected teacher whose life also went down the toilet after the said callous comment. There is the young girl whose life went down the toilet after an off hand, callous comment by a much respected teacher. There are the parents desperately seeking a kidney donor before it is too late to save their son from an early death. There are the parents who are worried sick about a son who is becoming emotionally removed and is now missing. There are the parents, grieving for a dead son, cause of death, suicide. There are many tales just waiting to be told. I have yet to read a book by Harlan Coben that didn’t grab me in the first few pages and hold me fixed until the final jaw dropping conclusion and this book is no exception.Īn affluent neighbourhood where the residents seem to live privileged prosperous lives but is it a happy prosperous life? Behind closed door the veneer of the privilege is stripped bare. Stand alone thriller by Harlan Coben published 2008.
No one wanted to prosecute the Bayes."Ĭould you have wrapped it up a bit neater in one paragraph, Harlan? I think my favourite sentences in this paragraph are the first ("I can't be bothered actually writing any sort of moving scene, so I'll just say that the room pretty much exploded - that'll do") and the wounds being ripped open and closed - what the hell kind of imagery is that? Lazy, boring writing, crappy cardboard characters, no more Harlan Coben for me. A confession has been made - Hester is the bitch lawyer, LeCrue and Duncan are cops. The writing was the last straw really - the paragraph below is the dramatic ending. Ridiculous plot (the "crazed" killer was laughable), and very cardboard characters - the parents trying to decide in a very stagey way whether or not to install spy software on their son's computer and then discovering a strange exchange of instant messages, the bitch lawyer who has never had kids, blah blah blah.
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