Tell No One: A Novel by Harlan Coben (Epub)

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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, Elizabeth is alive.

Beck has been warned to tell no one. And he doesn’t. Instead, he runs from the people he trusts the most, plunging headlong into a search for the shadowy figure whose messages hold out a desperate hope.

But already Beck is being hunted down. He’s headed straight into the heart of a dark and deadly secret—and someone intends to stop him before he gets there.

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Review “Harlan Coben’s Tell No One begins at a run and in no time is moving at an all-out sprint…. The characters are engaging and the strange goings-on will leave readers rapidly turning pages in search of fresh clues…. [Coben] writes with wit and a shrewd sense of plotting.”— San Francisco Chronicle”Set to be one of the big thriller reads of the summer…. Fifteen pages into this book, you’re sucked in and Coben never lets the pace stall…. If it takes more than two days to finish this one, you’re working too many hours. A hot summer rush.”— Detroit News”Compelling, cinematic … with surprises in store for the reader until the very last page…. [readers will] savor every clue, every detail.”— USA Today”Coben knows how to move pages, and he generates considerable suspense.”— Publishers Weekly”A gloriously exciting yarn. … A quest for answers that will have you burning the midnight oil till 3:00 a.m.”— Kirkus Reviews”Coben’s latest thriller is the book everyone should take to the beach this summer. … Tell everyone to read Tell No One.”— Library Journal”Tell No One is such a terrific thriller, you’ll want to tell everyone! Harlan Coben delivers the near-impossible — a can’t-put-it-down page-turner with a slam-bang surprise ending. You’ll read this book in one breathless gulp!”— Lisa Scottoline, New York Times bestselling author of Moment of Truth”Suspense at its finest.”— Jeffery Deaver”Non-stop action with plot twists galore.”— Phillip Margolin”A thriller of runaway tension.”— Iris JohansenFrom the Hardcover edition. From Booklist This thriller moves from heartbreaking to heartstopping without missing a beat. A young couple takes a moonlight swim at their family’s lakeside property. The wife swims to the dock. The husband’s reverie is broken by a scream and the sight of his wife struggling. The husband, once he flails to the dock, is knocked unconscious. His wife is viciously branded and murdered. Eight years later, Dr. David Beck, a walk-on in his own life, gets a call from the sheriff saying that two bodies have been found buried near the lake. Something buried with the bodies links them to Beck. And Beck receives an e-mail on his anniversary, directing him to a Web street camera. His wife appears, pleading with him to tell no one he’s seen her again. Edgar winner Coben makes Beck (and the reader) walk a tightrope where one false move or word can spell doom. A technologically savvy thriller. Connie FletcherCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. From the Back Cover “Suspense at its finest…” –Jeffrey Deaver“A can’t-put-it-down page-turner…”–Lisa Scottoline“Non-stop action with plot twists galore…”–Phillip Margolin“A thriller of runaway tension…”–Iris Johansen –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. From Library Journal Coben’s latest thriller is the book everyone should take to the beach this summer. David Beck and his wife, Elizabeth, are celebrating their anniversary when things go horribly wrong, as Elizabeth is kidnapped and Beck is injured. Her battered body is later found, apparently the latest victim of a serial killer. Eight years later, still devastated by his loss, Beck receives a cryptic E-mail with a mysterious hyperlink that will activate at a specific time. When it activates, it shows a current video feed on a street that Beck can’t identify. He watches in shock as Elizabeth looks up at the camera and mouths, “I’m sorry.” What follows is Beck’s quest for the truth, and what he finds will destroy his life as he knows it. Tell everyone to read Tell No One. Highly recommended for all public libraries.- Jeff Ayers, Seattle P.L. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. From Publishers Weekly 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 novel, is a breezy enough read, but it’s not up to snuff. It’s got a nifty setup, though. David Beck and Elizabeth Parker, just-married childhood sweethearts, are vacationing at the Beck family retreat when Beck is knocked unconscious and Elizabeth is kidnapped. Cut to eight years later: Beck is a young physician working with ghetto kids in Manhattan, and Elizabeth, we learn, is dead, victim of a serial killer known as KillRoy. Or is she? For immediately after two bodies eight years old are uncovered on the Beck land, Beck receives a series of e-mails apparently from Elizabeth. His frantic search to find out if she lives dovetails with the equally frenzied efforts of cops to pin Elizabeth’s murder on Beck, as well as the antic moves of a mysterious billionaire an old friend of the Beck family and his two hired thugs to frame Beck for that murder. Beck finds himself a man on the run from the cops his only ally a black drug dealer whose child he’s treating for hemophilia caught in an overcomplicated tangle of lies and vengeance. Coben knows how to move pages, and he generates considerable suspense, but there’s little new here. The narrative style is cloned from James Patterson, alternating first-person with third. The villains, particularly the billionaire and a Chinese martial artist, are as old as mid-Elmore Leonard or even Chandler. The black drug dealer isn’t a character, he’s a plot device, and the climax packs the emotional wallop of a strong episode of The Rockford Files. (June 19)Forecast: Heavy-hitting blurbs from Jeffery Deaver and Phillip Margolin, among others, indicate more about the solidarity of the mystery community than about this book’s excellence, but should attract browsers. The publisher will pitch this as a summer beach read, and it’s not a bad one. In fact, it may outsell Coben’s mysteries, despite its flaws.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. Review “Suspense at its finest…” —Jeffrey Deaver“A can’t-put-it-down page-turner…”—Lisa Scottoline“Non-stop action with plot twists galore…”—Phillip Margolin“A thriller of runaway tension…”—Iris JohansenFrom the Paperback edition. –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. From School Library Journal Adult/High School-Dr. David Beck’s wife was murdered by a serial killer, or so the police told him. After eight years of struggles with his grief, on the anniversary of their first kiss, a message appears on David’s home computer, a phrase he shared only with her. A current, digital image of Elizabeth follows and David’s hopes soar that she is alive. His search for her is hampered by the FBI, who consider him a suspect in her death, and by a billionaire whose son plays a role in the plot. Coben has written a gripping thriller with page-turning suspense and enough humor to break the tension on occasion. His use of state-of-the-art technological devices to move the story along will keep YAs reading. Those familiar with Coben’s “Myron Bolitar” series (Dell) will welcome his new protagonist.Katherine Fitch, Rachel Carson Middle School, Fairfax, VACopyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. From AudioFile Eight years after the death of his wife at the hands of a serial killer, Dr. David Beck receives an anonymous email directing him to a Web site from which it seems his wife is trying to reach him. Is he losing his mind, or is she alive? Steven Weber brings an emotional immediacy to this story of a man caught in a web of lies and corruption; he is compelled by one dictum: Tell no one. Weber, star of television’s “Wings,” is a natural for the audiobook medium. His voice is seductive and penetrating, giving his interpretation an intimate quality that takes little effort to completely absorb and that thrills the listener. S.E.S. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine– Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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⭐ One of the best thriller books I have ever read! Kept me so interested with unpredictable twists and turns! Plus no vulgar language or sex which was nice. Made for an enjoyable easy beach read I thoughorlly enjoyed!! Ordered more of his books! I like his style and the way he writes with some humor and current word plays.

⭐ Harlan Coben is easily one of my favorite mystery writers. He has a knack for building suspense from the beginning of his books and building the tension until it’s almost unbearable. Tell No One is a perfect example of this skill. From the first page the reader knows something bad is going to happen. Even as Coben weaves a strand of romance through his introduction of Dr. David Beck and his wife Elizabeth as they go for an anniversary drive, there is an underlying note of danger that will make you hold your breath. As David remembers their thirteenth anniversary, glimmers of warning shift into the memories. By the end of the first chapter the foundation of the tale. I already felt as though I knew the happy couple. The story picks up eight years later as Dr. Beck cares for his patients in a low-income neighborhood. He’s everyone’s dream of a good guy, a doctor who cares more about his patients than making big bucks. He’s the kind of character you root for from the beginning. And when he is thrust into situations where painful memories are rejuvenated you ache for him. The good doctor starts receiving mysterious e-mails and they send him into a tail spin. Although warned to tell no one, he is desperate to talk about the bizarre occurrences. Is his beloved wife Elizabeth alive or is someone playing a terrible and cruel joke on him? And who can he trust? This is a brilliantly woven tale of dark secrets, deadly misunderstandings, and a love that won’t die. Even when things seem most bleak, David hangs on by a thread, desperate to believe Elizabeth has survived. But why has she been hiding for eight years and why won’t she come out now? Most people have favorite characters in the books they read. While all the characters in this book have solid personalities, my favorite is Tyrese Barton. The only thing I’ll say about him is he reminds me a lot of guys I knew growing up in New York City. I think Coben must know the people in the neighborhood where I was raised, and I thank him for representing Tyrese with a raw honesty that gives a genuine picture of New York “gangstas”. There is a delightful twist at the end of the book that I confess took me completely by surprise. There was a secret hinted at throughout the book and I believed I had figured it out. But Coben tricked me again and I’m grateful. Mystery lovers, readers who need suspense with the flavor of reality, and the kind of tension that makes you clench your teeth and stay awake all night reading, need to grab a copy of this book and settle in for a ride down a dark and dirty road.

⭐ I finished reading TELL NO ONE by Harlan Coben this past Friday, August 16th, and I am glad that a coincidental confluence of circumstances led to my finally sampling this popular and best selling author’s works. I had been occasionally reading the Comments that were posted on Goodreads’ discussion topic (the 100 best thrillers of all time? you be the judge) THE MYSTERY, CRIME, AND THRILLER GROUP. One day, I took the time to briefly peruse the list in question, and I noted that Coben’s TELL NO ONE was included. Naturally I have seen Harlan Coben’s name and read reviews by readers that are convinced that his thrillers are simply unsurpassed by any other author writing today. I have also seen customers allege that he deploys a formulaic plot and if you’ve read one, you’ve read them all. The fact is, I’d been toying with the idea of reading a book of his in order to form my own opinion. Then, again coincidentally, I stumbled across a sale on Amazon for one of his books. Yeah, you guessed it, TELL NO ONE.First of all, the author was able to get my attention from the first page, and I knew immediately that this was a book I was definitely going to finish reading. This standalone novel from Coben was published a decade ago if I recall (2009), thus I really can’t see the point in regurgitating a brief synopsis of the story line, or similarly revealing any “spoilers” that may inadvertently be read and spoil some future reader’s enjoyment. It was a quick, and generally interesting read which is why I am unable to go below a rating of Three Stars.By the time I read the last line of this book, I felt a blend of disappointment, puzzlement, and irritation. I knew that I had to think about it in order to put my finger on what it was that really put me off the novel and the author. I picked up on a liberal bias or slant at the outset, that is our two protagonists David and Elizabeth were the quintessential young liberals in both attitudes and actions. We then add a liberal sister who manages a charity for the underprivileged and downtrodden young people in the streets, and a gay lover in the fashion industry (also our main hero’s best friend). The father-in-law and his brother (both in law enforcement and comfortable with firearms) were not depicted with the charitable, loving nobility of the characters populating this book. The billionaire with a blind eye to the faults of his boy, and his two primary henchman, lacked depth, and WU (the lethal villain) was right out of Ian Fleming’s foes pitted against 007.It finally came to me what I was so disgruntled about. The author wrote a novel chock full of stereotypes! The whole cast of characters were good hearted wholesome liberal do-gooders and the bad guys were “typecast” as well! One self-reflection made me want to gag—it was when David pondered whether his beloved Elizabeth would maintain her idealistic, giving nature, seeing everyone as basically good—up until the very end of her life at the hands of a sexual sadist.I wasn’t able to relate to David, or to any of the protagonists. They did not come across as genuine or real people to me. In my 20’s I held many lofty notions about many serious issues in society, and coupled with an alternative life style it is safe to say that I can understand a liberal point of view. However, all of us are inherently human and three dimensional, not cardboard characters with scripted ideals. This book satisfied my curiosity about Cohen’s writing and I am glad I read it.

⭐ I usually don’t write 5-star reviews because I don’t read them and I don’t think many people do. But I have to leave a 5-star for one of my all time favorite books.I had never heard of Harlan Coben and happened to see a signed copy of this in a bookstore. I bought it just because it was signed and the story looked good. Yes, I am THAT shallow. 🙂 This is one of those books that I keep handy and read again and again and again….Lots of others have described what the book is about. I’ll just say that I read a lot. I am rarely shocked. The ending of this book had me GOBSMACKED. It was amazing.

⭐ While the writing style, head-hopping, editing, character introduction, and formatting was horrendous, I greatly enjoy the storyline. I will not be reading anything else by this author as I didn’t like the writing itself, but I stuck it out solely for the story.Granted, I was able to figure it out about 75% in, the author did throw a lightly (when I say lightly I mean LIGHTLY) foreshadowed twist in at the end. I’d recommend this book to people who care more about the story than the writing, formatting, etc. It was a great story.

⭐ A very good mystery/thriller with lots of twists and turns and a few surprises. The writing is very good with lots of very likable characters and some humor along the way. This would make a great movie. This is my first Harlan Coben and I will certainly read more of his works.

⭐ Like many readers, I really like to read Harlan Coben’s suspense books. But I must admit that I am less enthusiastic about the stories built around the Bolitar character. His other novels are fiendishly clever with surprises and suspenseful development that keeps me turning the pages. With this book, I tended to lay it aside and come back to it later when I had lost the flow. It never really grabbed my attention in a compelling way. Of course my difficulty in giving my sustained attention to the book was not just because of a lack of interest but because of complications in my own schedule.

⭐ I’d never heard of Harlen Coben before when my physical therapist pointed him out to me while I was recuperating from knee surgery. (He wasn’t a patient that I know of but just stopped by.) She mentioned he was a good author of mysteries. Picked one of his many books & I was hooked. This is one of many of his books that I have read & I’ve enjoyed them all. Great characters & plots with unexpected twists that keep you guessing.

⭐ Well-plotted action with likeable characters makes this an easy but interesting read. This is my first novel by Coben, but I will definitely read more. Mostly told in first-person, the novel relates the aftermath of a husband’s life eight years after the murder of his wife when the neatly devised solution begins to fall apart. The shift in point of view the author used gives the reader more information that Beck, the protagonist, did not have; the author used the technique sparingly which makes it fairly effective without being distracting. The end had a nice twist which neatly wrapped up the various subplots. While not entirely believable, the novel didn’t ask me to entirely suspend faith in reality just to enjoy the story. Great literature? Perhaps not, but definitely entertainment.

⭐ Don’t start a Harlan Coben book unless you want to neglect everything and keep reading. Tell No One is no exception. You never know where the story is going next. This book involves a doctor whose wife has been missing for seven years. Is she dead? Did she go voluntarily? Who can he trust? You’ll have to find out for yourself by reading the book.

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