Harlan Coben, Author British American Publishing $20 (391p) ISBN 978-0-945167-39-6
Coben ( Play Dead ) adroitly applies the fundamental rules of thrillerdom (offer a raft of potential villains; keep the action moving at breakneck speed) in this highly entertaining novel about a conspiracy apparently designed to prevent the...
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Harlan Coben, Author Dell Publishing Company $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-440-22270-5
Coben, who just won the Edgar for best original paperback (Fade Away) scores a hole in one with this fourth outing for basketball star tuned sports agent Myron Bolitar. Golf takes center stage, but the sharp plotting and emotional density, as well...
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Harlan Coben, Author Delacorte Press $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-33433-4
Book seven in Coben's wonderfully rich series (after 1999's The Final Detail), which features sports agent Myron Bolitar, former basketball player and totally believable human being, is all about fathers, sons and the intricate and often painful...
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Harlan Coben, Author Penguin Audiobooks $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-305756-7
Once listeners get past an awkward prologue told in second person, present tense (""Your name is Matt Hunter. You are 20 years old...""), this twisty thriller reverts to the more familiar objective point of view, and the combination of Coben's yarn...
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Harlan Coben, Dutton, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-525-95206-0
Edgar-winner Coben's 10th Myron Bolitar novel (after Long Lost) is a perfect 10: providing readers with new information about the past of the former athlete turned agent and owner of MB Reps; a satisfyingly complex mystery; and the always...
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Harlan Coben, Author . Delacorte $22.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-33555-3
Every writer likes to stretch his legs, and here Coben, author of seven acclaimed Myron Bolitar mysteries (Darkest Fear, etc.), stretches his. He doesn't quite kick his reputation aside in the process. This thriller, Coben's first non-Bolitar
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Harlan Coben. Dutton, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-525-95227-5
Edgar-winner Coben (Caught) continues to mine rich veins of terror in his New Jersey novels of domestic suspense, exploring both the reality and the ideal of family ties and the ease with which evil can destroy both. In this masterful stand-alone,...
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Harlan Coben. Dutton, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-95348-7
In the prologue to this Kafkaesque stand-alone from bestseller Coben (Stay Close), Jake Fisher, a political science professor at Lanford College in Massachusetts, promises the love of his life, Natalie Avery, to leave her and the man she’s about to...
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Harlan Coben. Putnam, $18.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-25650-9
In this suspenseful, well-executed spinoff of his bestselling Myron Bolitar mystery series for adults, Coben introduces readers to Myron’s nephew Mickey, a high school sophomore who is reluctantly living with his uncle after his father died in a...
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Harlan Coben. Dutton, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-95349-4
An unlikely bond develops between NYPD detective Kat Donovan and 19-year-old Brandon Phelps in this page-turning, stomach-churning standalone from bestseller Coben (Six Years). While exploring a dating site called YouAreJustMyType.com, Kat discovers
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Harlan Coben. Dutton, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-95350-0
Bestseller Coben (Missing You) continues to turn out thrillers that put highly original spins on a current trend or problem, and while this standalone lacks the nail-biting suspense of his best, it's clever enough to be thoroughly entertaining. Adam
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Harlan Coben. Dutton, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-95509-2
Capt. Maya Stern Burkett, the heroine of this stellar standalone from Edgar-winner Coben (The Stranger), has suffered more than her fair share of tragedy. Her career as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot came to an end after whistle-blower Corey Rudzinski
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Harlan Coben. Dutton, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-95510-8
Edgar-winner Coben's action-packed 11th thriller featuring sports agent Myron Bolitar (after 2011's Live Wire) blends family drama with a twisty plot. Six-year-old Patrick Moore and his classmate Rhys Baldwin are abducted from Rhys's New Jersey home
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Harlan Coben, Author Delacorte Press $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-32371-0
You know things are getting tough for Myron Bolitar when the crime-solving sports agent finds that his favorite tipple--the chocolate drink Yoo-Hoo--has lost its kick. At a particularly harrowing point in his latest Bolitar book (after One False...
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Harlan Coben, Author . Delacorte $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-33558-4
"We never forget our first love. Mine ended up being murdered." Newcomers and fans alike will know they're deep in Coben country with the author's ninth book, in which a counselor of runaways with his own history of broken hearts and
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Harlan Coben, Author . Dutton $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-94729-5
Supercharged by a father's fierce drive to rescue his kidnapped daughter, Coben's third stand-alone thriller proves far more gripping than his second, Tell No One. Marc Seidman, a plastic surgeon near New York City, wakes up in a hospital to
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Harlan Coben, Author . Dutton $25.95 (370p) ISBN 978-0-525-94791-2
Just one look at Coben's latest stand-alone thriller (after No Second Chance
) highlights the author's customary strengths (swift pacing, strong lead characters) but also his weaknesses, including limited originality and, in this case, a...
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Harlan Coben, Author . Dutton $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-94874-2
Coben seems to delight in making bad things happen to good people (Tell No One
; Gone for Good
; etc.), and he does it again in this, his best book to date. A paralegal, devoted husband and soon-to-be father, Matt Hunter has a not-so-secret past:...
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Harlan Coben, Author . Dutton $26.95 (370p) ISBN 978-0-525-94949-7
Last seen in bestseller Coben's Darkest Fear
(2000), Myron Bolitar, former basketball star (Boston Celtics) turned sports and entertainment agent and occasional knight in shining armor, is back in fighting form in his action-packed eighth...
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Harlan Coben, Author . Dutton $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-95012-7
At the start of this disappointing stand-alone from bestseller Coben (Promise Me
), Paul "Cope" Copeland, acting county prosecutor for Essex County, N.J., and Lucy Gold, his long-lost summer camp love, are still haunted by a fateful night,...
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Harlan Coben, Author . Dutton $26.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-525-95060-8
Parents will find this compulsive page-turner from Edgar-winner Coben (The Woods
) particularly unnerving. A sadistic killer is at play in suburban Glen Rock, N.J., outside New York City, but somehow he's less frightening than the more mundane...
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Harlan Coben, Author . Dutton $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-525-95105-6
Myron Bolitar takes on international terrorists in bestseller Coben's fast-paced ninth thriller to feature the sports and entertainment agent (after Promise Me
). With his romantic relationship with 9/11 widow Ali Wilder on the rocks, Myron is...
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Harlan Coben, Author Dutton $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-95158-2
Bestseller Coben (Hold Tight
) has a knack for taking everyday nightmares and playing with life’s endless “what ifs,” as shown in this stand-alone thriller, a tightly choreographed dance of guilt and innocence, forgiveness and...
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Harlan Coben, Author Dell Publishing Company $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-440-22268-2
Wisecracking sports agent Myron Bolitar returns with style in his third mystery (after Deal Breaker and Dropshot). This time, Myron is given a chance to return to professional basketball after being sidelined by a heartbreaking injury 10 years ago....
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Harlan Coben, Author Dell Publishing Company $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-440-22045-9
Quirky, sarcastic sports agent Myron Bolitar makes his second appearance (after Deal Breaker), pursuing the killer of a 24-year-old has-been tennis star on the verge of making her comeback. When someone shoots Valerie Simpson near the Food Court...
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Harlan Coben, read by Steven Weber. Brilliance, unabridged, eight CDs, 10 hrs., $36.99 ISBN 978-1-4418-9527-1
It's no surprise that Steven Weber, a familiar TV presence (Wings, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) who specializes in glib, wisecracking characters, would be a perfect fit for both Coben's protagonist, witty sports superagent, Myron Bolitar, and his...
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Harlan Coben, read by Scott Brick. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11 hrs., $36.99 ISBN 978-1-4418-9536-3
Coben's latest stand-alone thriller, a sophisticated look at the intersections of three people leading lives of quiet desperation, is vividly brought to life by Scott Brick's skillful, subtle narration. With multiple protagonists, it's essential...
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Harlan Coben, read by Nick Podehl. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 7.75 hrs., $24.99 ISBN 978-1-4558-0497-9
Action packed would be an understated description for Coben’s novel—the second spinoff of his bestselling Myron Bolitar series featuring 14-year-old Mickey Bolitar. Picking up where the last book left off, Mickey is stunned by the news, supplied by...
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Harlan Coben, read by January LaVoy. Brilliance Audio, , unabridged, 8 CDs, 10 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-5012-1758-6
In his new thriller, a seemingly unsolvable puzzle isn’t so unsolvable. Two weeks after witnessing her husband, Joe, murdered in Central Park, retired special-ops Army Captain Maya Stern consults her newly installed nanny cam and sees Joe enter...
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Harlan Coben, illus. by Leah Tinari. Dial, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-525-42803-9
A boy named Walden, bored stiff at the prospect of another weekly dinner with his extended family, is magically dragged into one of his own drawings displayed on the family refrigerator, kicking off an adventure through two-dimensional, magnet-held...
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Harlan Coben, read by Steven Weber. Brilliance Audio, , unabridged, 7 CDs, 9 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-5012-1767-8
Coben’s new protagonist, suburban New Jersey cop Nap Dumas, is a witty and heroic sleuth who is not afraid to break the law when it comes to giving woman-batterers a bit of their own back. Nap’s everyday world is shaken up when he receives word that
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Harlan Coben, Author, Carrington MacDuffie, Read by , read by Carrington MacDuffie. Penguin Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-280056-0
Coben's latest thriller (after No Second Chance
) is a riveting, albeit perplexing, nightmare that finds hapless New Jersey wife and mother Grace Lawson dealing with an assortment of fearful developments, including a missing spouse, a...
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Harlan Coben, Author, Harlan Coben, Read by , read by the author. Brilliance Audio $36.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59737-627-3
After a six-year hiatus, it's good to herald the return of Myron Bolitar, the former Boston Celtics basketball star who became a sports agent and crime solver in Coben's sprightly, exciting series. Even better, it's great fun to hear...
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Harlan Coben, Author, Steven Weber, Read by , read by Steven Weber. Brilliance $36.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-2757-8
Crime-stopper extraordinaire Myron Bolitar returns in this rousing thriller by bestseller Coben. This time around, Bolitar heads to Paris to heed the distress call from his former lover, Terese Collins, whom he hasn't seen in more than 10 years.
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Harlan Coben, Author, Richard Lipez, Editor British American Publishing $19.95 (452p) ISBN 978-0-945167-28-0
Terrible secrets lead basketball star David Baskin to fake his death while honeymooning in the tropics in this manipulative but otherwise engaging first novel. His bereaved bride, supermodel Laura Ayars, not sure that David's drowning was accidental,
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Harlan Coben. Grand Central, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5387-5631-7
Bestseller Coben’s anemic 12th thriller featuring basketball-star-turned-sports agent Myron Bolitar (after 2016’s Home) suggests the series may be losing its bounce. Bolitar is stunned when the FBI demands the whereabouts of his former client Greg...
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Harlan Coben. Grand Central, $30 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5387-4836-7
David Burroughs, the protagonist of this disappointing standalone from bestseller Coben (the Myron Bolitar series), has been incarcerated in a Maine penitentiary for five years, convicted of murdering his three-year-old son, Matthew, by beating his...
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Harlan Coben. Grand Central, $29 (352p) ISBN 978-1-5387-4828-2
Could Wilde, a 40-something man who was discovered living on his own three decades earlier in the New Jersey woods, finally learn how he came to grow up feral? Bestseller Coben provides some answers in this uneven sequel to 2020’s The Boy from the...
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Harlan Coben. Grand Central, $29 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5387-4821-3
Early in this disappointing thriller from bestseller Coben (the Myron Bolitar series), FBI agents ask sports agent Myron’s wealthy blueblood sidekick, Windsor “Win” Horne Lockwood III, to accompany them to the Beresford, “one of the most prestigious
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Harlan Coben. Grand Central, $29 (432p) ISBN 978-1-5387-4814-5
This subpar thriller from Edgar winner Coben (the Myron Bolitar series) pairs an improbable lead with an improbable plot. In 1986, a boy, who looks to be between six and eight years old, is found living on his own in the woods near Westville, N.J....
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Harlan Coben. Grand Central, $29 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5387-4846-6
In this bombshell-laden thriller from bestseller Coben (Don’t Let Go), Wall Street financial adviser Simon Greene and his pediatrician wife have a perfect life by all outward appearances—except that they haven’t seen their drug-addicted daughter,...
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Harlan Coben. Dutton, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-95511-5
New Jersey cop Nap Dumas, the hero of this outstanding standalone from bestseller Coben (Fool Me Once), is shocked to learn that fingerprints at the scene of a crime—the shooting death of a fellow cop and high school classmate during a traffic stop—b
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