Tell No One: A Novel (Crime Essentials)

by Harlan Coben

“A compelling and original suspense thriller.”—Los Angeles Times

“Harlan Coben is the modern master of the hook-and-twist.”—Dan Brown

For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive.

Everyone tells him it’s time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossible—that somewhere, somehow, his wife is alive . . . and he’s been warned to tell no one.

• ISBN10: 0440245907
• ISBN13: 9780440245902
• Publish Date: 25 August 2009 (first published 17 May 2001)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Dell
• Format: Paperback (US Tall Rack)
• Pages: 384
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780440245902

Reviews

[Bianca]

Well that was fun. And addictive. Great mystery thriller!

[ibeforem]

This was Coben’s first post-Bolitar stand-alone novel, and he starts out with a theme that reoccurs through many of his stand-alones — the missing and/or presumed dead loved one. It borders a little on over-used, yet it never fails to create suspense. It takes a while in this story before you’re really sure whether or not Elizabeth is alive, but figuring that out is far from the whole story. There’s a lot going on here — so much that I got a little lost in a few places — but Coben does a good job of tying it all up in the end. And I really did not guess the final twist. It was twisty enough to make you rethink some of Beck’s actions. Gotta love that!