Stay Close - Hardcover

Coben, Harlan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525952276 ISBN 13: 9780525952275

Publisher: E P Dutton, 2012

Synopsis

Harlan Coben follows four consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers with a stand-alone thriller in the vein of his beloved breakout novels Caught and Hold Tight.

Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side. Now she's got two kids, a perfect husband, a picket fence, and a growing sense of dissatisfaction. Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer, but at age forty he finds himself in a dead- end job posing as a paparazzo pandering to celebrity-obsessed rich kids. Jack is a detective who can't let go of a cold case-a local husband and father disappeared seventeen years ago, and Jack spends the anniversary every year visiting a house frozen in time, the missing man's family still waiting, his slippers left by the recliner as if he might show up any moment to step into them.

Three people living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect, will find that the past doesn't recede. Even as the terrible consequences of long-ago events crash together in the present and threaten to ruin lives, they will come to the startling realization that they may not want to forget the past at all. And as each confronts the dark side of the American Dream- the boredom of a nice suburban life, the excitement of temptation, the desperation and hunger that can lurk behind even the prettiest facades- they will discover the hard truth that the line between one kind of life and another can be as whisper-thin as a heartbeat.

With his trademark combination of page-turning thrills and unrivaled insight into the dark shadows that creep into even the happiest communities, Harlan Coben delivers a thriller that cements his status as the master of domestic suspense.

About this title

Review:

Praise for Harlan Coben:

"Nobody writes them better than Coben."
-Associated Press

"Harlan Coben's family thrillers touch us where we live."
-"The South Florida Sun-Sentinel"

"Fiction reading doesn't get much better than this."
-"The Huffington Post" on "Caught"

"Coben is one of the best authors around at writing page-turning suspense."
-"Chicago Sun-Times"

"Coben has perfected the ability to keep numerous balls in the air, plot threads twisting at once, the readers knowing they will all converge at some point, the suspense lying in just how the author will manage it."
-"The Daily Beast on Live Wire"

Book Description:

The brilliant new thriller from 'one of America's masters of the hook, the twist and the surprise ending' Literary Review

About this edition

• Publisher: E P Dutton
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0525952276
• ISBN 13: 9780525952275
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 387