Harlan Coben built his reputation on a single, quietly devastating premise: the person you thought you'd lost might not be gone. All three novels begin with grief - a new widow, a haunted prosecutor, a doctor who has spent eight years learning to live with loss - and then detonate that grief with a discovery nobody was ready for. Coben is at his most addictive here. Read one and the other two become essential.
Harlan Coben, Play Dead - Celtics star David Baskin drowns on his honeymoon off Australia. Or does he? His widow Laura suspects otherwise - and as she starts asking questions, the people with answers start dying.
Harlan Coben, The Woods - Twenty years ago, Paul Copeland's sister walked into the woods at a summer camp and never came back. Now a murder victim has surfaced with evidence suggesting she may not have died after all.
Harlan Coben, Tell No One - Eight years after watching his wife Elizabeth be murdered, Dr David Beck receives an email containing a code only the two of them knew. Then her face appears on his screen.
Three masterfully plotted thrillers where every secret hides another waiting to surface.