Published by Orion,
29 March 2015.
ISBN: 978-1-4091-4463-2
29 March 2015.
ISBN: 978-1-4091-4463-2
Considering the
numerous books Harlan Coben has written he still does not disappoint his
readers especially with his latest offering “The Stranger”.
Adam Price is living in suburban
heaven. He has a good job and lives in a big house with his beautiful wife,
Corinne, and two children. But his life is turned upside down when a stranger
walks up to him in a bar and reveals a secret about his wife. It cannot
possibly be true or can it? It puts a nagging doubt in Adam’s head.
Why would a stranger tell him something which has such an impact on his life
and walk away without explanation?
Adam follows the trail and finds the stranger was speaking the truth but then his wife doesn’t arrive home for dinner and he gets a text from her. ‘We need to spend some time apart. Don’t try to contact me’
What then unfolds has the reader hooked. Other secrets are uncovered and the tangled web of the internet puts others in danger as Adam finds more and more people are involved in this operation and some don’t survive.
Adam follows the trail and finds the stranger was speaking the truth but then his wife doesn’t arrive home for dinner and he gets a text from her. ‘We need to spend some time apart. Don’t try to contact me’
What then unfolds has the reader hooked. Other secrets are uncovered and the tangled web of the internet puts others in danger as Adam finds more and more people are involved in this operation and some don’t survive.
The Stranger is a gripping read which
shows the reader danger of going online and how much information is out there
about us all, perhaps waiting to bite us.
As always, Harlan Coben delivers a
compelling read which holds our interest to the very last page.
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Reviewer: Ellen
Campbell
Harlan Coben was
born 4 January 1962 in
Newark, New Jersey. He was the
first ever author to win all three major crime awards in the US. He is now
global bestseller with his mix of powerful stand-alone thrillers and Myron
Bolitar crime novels. He has appeared in the bestseller lists of The Times, the
New York Times, Le Monde, Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. He currently lives in New Jersey with his
wife and four children.
Ellen Campbell lives in Southport
and writes theatre reviews for the Southport Champion and the Lancashire
Evening Post. An avid reader, her favourite authors are Harlan Coben, Lee
Child, Mary Higgins Clark, Jane Fallon, Joanna Trollope, Robert
Neill and Robert Goddard.
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