FICTION
Released: March 20, 2012
"A proficient but routine thriller in which you can tell for miles in advance who's disposable and who's slated for survival, marked by the virtual absence of the baroque plot twists fans of Coben (Live Wire, 2011, etc.) expect as their due."
The past comes knocking for a former stripper who thought she'd said goodbye to all that in an altogether less-successful distaff reworking of The Innocent (2005).
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CHILDREN'S
Released: Sept. 6, 2011
"A not-bad-at-all entry into the teen market for this adult author. (Mystery. 12 & up)"
Being the new kid at his high school is the least of Mickey Bolitar's worries; how about a missing girlfriend and dad's possible rising from the dead?
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FICTION
Released: March 22, 2011
"Fans will be rewarded by the nonstop plot twists Coben must have patented."
A client's case of online harassment brings the chickens home to roost for agent Myron Bolitar and his whole family.
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 2009
"Fans are strongly advised to leave plenty of time to plow through the case at one sitting, as any delay would be fatal to the suspension of disbelief it demands. On the other hand, those few hours will leave the easy chair smoking."
Agent Myron Bolitar returns in a case as twisty and ambitious as Coben's highly successful stand-alones (
Hold Tight, 2008, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: April 15, 2008
"There are surprises aplenty, but this time the ambitious scope--the anatomy of suburban vice--works against suspense; there are just too many cutaways to other embattled characters you want to root for but can't remember why."
How much do you trust your children, and what would you do if your efforts to keep tabs on them pushed them even further away?
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FICTION
Released: April 17, 2007
"All the surprises you'd expect from Coben, but a lot fewer thrills."
Twenty years after his teenaged sister and three of her friends were murdered at their summer camp, a New Jersey prosecutor learns that one of the victims--and maybe more than one--may have walked away.
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FICTION
Released: April 25, 2006
"As usual, Coben piles on the plot twists, false leads, violent set pieces and climactic surprises with the unfocused intensity that have made his thrillers (The Innocent, 2005, etc.) such a hot ticket."
After six years of spinning jaw-dropping stand-alone thrillers, Coben brings back his sports agent--make that everything agent--Myron Bolitar (
Darkest Fear, 2000, etc.) for an encore.
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FICTION
Released: April 26, 2005
"The gaping improbabilities won't bother fans of rose-tinted nightmares a bit as they gasp their way through Matt's free-fall, scared and happy as kids on a roller-coaster."
An ex-con's carefully constructed new life in the New Jersey suburbs comes crashing down with a single call from his wife's new camera phone.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2004
"Tepid terrors along the way to a mildly surprising end."
Suburban thriller from the prolific Coben (
No Second Chance, 2002, etc.), about a perfect husband who disappears when a photo from the past shows up in the latest batch from the photomat.
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FICTION
Released: April 28, 2003
"Irresistibly overstuffed. Coben has blossomed into the male Mary Higgins Clark."
Once again, Coben (
Gone for Good, 2002, etc.) expertly tugs at a suburban citizen's most ordinary fears until he finds a mind-boggling criminal conspiracy at the other end of the line.
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FICTION
Released: April 30, 2002
A betwixt-and-between thriller from the talented chronicler of sports agent Myron Bolitar (
Darkest Fear, 2000, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: June 12, 2001
"A gloriously exciting yarn whose spell will end the moment you turn the last page."
What's worse than learning that your wife's been abducted and murdered by a madman? Learning that she hasn't--in this taut, twisty dose of suspenseful hokum from the gifted chronicler of sleuthing sports-agent Myron Bolitar (
Darkest Fear, 2000, etc.).
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