![]() ![]() 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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