Book Preview This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. Copyright © 2021 by Harlan Coben Cover design by Jonathan Bush Cover images by Getty Images and … Read more
Book Preview PROLOGUE SEE MY FATHER WITH THAT SHOVEL. SEE MY FATHER WITH THAT SHOVEL. There are tears streaming down his face. An awful, guttural sob forces its way up from deep in his lungs and out through his lips. He raises the shovel up and strikes the ground. The blade rips into the earth … Read more
Book Preview PRAISE FORTHE FINAL DETAIL “In a genre crowded with accidental detectives who seem invented only to lure cat-loving vegetarians and other special-interest readers, Myron Bolitar stands out. The Edgar Award–winning author gives his characters memorable personalities … they are never plain-vanilla.” —USA Today “The Final Detail captures the author’s trademark humor, but don’t … Read more
Book Preview This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. Copyright © 2020 by Harlan Coben Cover design by Jaya Miceli Cover copyright © 2020 by Hachette … Read more
Book Preview Copyright © 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Introduction copyright © 2011 by Harlan Coben All rights reserved. The Best American Series® is a registered trademark of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. The Best American Mystery Stories ™ is a trademark of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. No part of this work … Read more
Book Preview Praise forTELL NO ONE “In this pulse-pounding hunt, Harlan Coben layers secret upon secret, crisscrossing years and crime scenes…. A BEACH-READ SO GRIPPING IT OUGHT TO COME WITH A JUMBO TUBE OF SUNSCREEN … BOTTOM LINE: TELL EVERYONE.” —People (Beach Book of the Week) “TELL NO ONE ROCKS THE HOUSE. My head felt … Read more
Book Preview DUTTON PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN GROUP (USA) INC. 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.); Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England;Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, … Read more
Book Preview ALSO BY HARLAN COBEN Play Dead Miracle Cure Deal Breaker Drop Shot Fade Away Back Spin One False Move The Final Detail Darkest Fear Tell No One Gone for Good No Second Chance Just One Look The Innocent Promise Me The Woods Hold Tight Long Lost Caught Live Wire Shelter Stay Close Seconds … Read more
Book Preview I WAS WALKING TO SCHOOL, lost in feeling sorry for myself—my dad was dead, my mom in rehab, my girlfriend missing—when I saw the Bat Lady for the first time. I had heard the rumors, of course. The Bat Lady supposedly lived alone in the dilapidated house on the corner of Hobart Gap … Read more
Book Preview CHAPTER 1 There are moments in your life that change everything. I don’t mean little things like, say, what cereal turns out to be your favorite or whether you get into any AP classes or what girl you fall in love with or where you wind up living for the next twenty years. … Read more
Book Preview CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6 CHAPTER 7 CHAPTER 8 CHAPTER 9 CHAPTER 10 CHAPTER 11 CHAPTER 12 CHAPTER 13 CHAPTER 14 CHAPTER 15 CHAPTER 16 CHAPTER 17 CHAPTER 18 CHAPTER 19 CHAPTER 20 CHAPTER 21 CHAPTER 22 CHAPTER 23 CHAPTER 24 CHAPTER 25 CHAPTER 26 … Read more
Book Preview A Note from the Author Okay, if this is the first book of mine you’re going to try, stop now. Return it. Grab another. It’s okay. I’ll wait. If you’re still here, please know that I haven’t read Play Dead in at least twenty years. I didn’t want to rewrite it and pass … Read more
Book Preview PRAISE FOR HARLAN COBEN ANDONE FALSE MOVE “The fast-paced plot spins the reader in a completely different direction than she expects to go. Myron is gallant, likable, and delightfully original. … His reflections on suburban life and racial divides are poignant and insightful.” —Los Angeles Times “The suspense is high in this twisty … Read more
Book Preview In loving memory of my mother-in-law, Nancy Armstrong And in celebration of her grandchildren: Thomas, Katharine, McCallum, Reilly, Charlotte, Dovey, Benjamin, Will, Ana, Eve, Mary, Sam, Caleb, and Annie In loving memory of my mother-in-law, Nancy Armstrong And in celebration of her grandchildren: Thomas, Katharine, McCallum, Reilly, Charlotte, Dovey, Benjamin, Will, Ana, Eve, … Read more
Book Preview Chapter 1 Kat Donovan spun off her father’s old stool, readying to leave O’Malley’s Pub, when Stacy said, “You’re not going to like what I did.” The tone made Kat stop mid-stride. “What?” O’Malley’s used to be an old-school cop bar. Kat’s grandfather had hung out here. So had her father and their … Read more
Book Preview A Note from the Author Okay, if this is the first book of mine you’re going to try, stop now. Return it. Grab another. It’s okay. I’ll wait. If you’re still here, please know that I haven’t read Miracle Cure in at least twenty years. It is my second published novel, one I … Read more
Book Preview “ YOU don’t know her secret,” Win said to me. “Then maybe I don’t want to know.” Two days before I learned the secret she’d kept buried for a decade—the seemingly personal secret that would not only devastate the two of us but change the world forever—Terese Collins called me at five AM, … Read more
Book Preview Published by Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.); Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England; Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, … Read more