Tell No One - Hardcover

Coben, Harlan

4.08

160,846 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0752846027 ISBN 13: 9780752846026

Publisher: Orion, 2001

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Every year, the Doctor David Beck and his young wife, Elizabeth, meet at the same deserted lake to rediscover their love for each other, and inscribe one more year into 'their' tree. But that year was the last. Elizabeth was kidnapped and Beck knocked unconscious. By the time he woke up, his wife had been discovered dead, and horribly mutilated.

For eight years he grieves. Then one afternoon, he receives an anonymous e-mail telling him to log on to a certain web-site at a certain time, using a code that only the two of them knew. The screen opens onto a web cam and it is her face he sees.

This starts an inexorable chain of events as Beck tries to find out if Elizabeth is truly alive and what really happened that summer night. Soon he's a wanted man, as the FBI try to pin Elizabeth's murder on him, and everyone he turns to seems to end up dead...

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Review:

Elizabeth was taken from David one night, tortured, killed and abandoned by the serial murderer known as KillRoy; he was left for dead. Eight years later, he gets an e-mail which leads him to a camera feed, and sees her standing on a street corner looking at him. And suddenly he is on the run, accused of her murder and of others, dependent on the whim of a violent pusher whose child's life he saved. Harlan Coben's new thriller Tell No One is a terrifying kinetic novel of abuse of power, false accusation and the things that go wrong with the most careful of schemes. David Beck is a memorable character--a dedicated doctor whose mourning for his wife has gradually become itself a sort of paralysis, but who has a surprising resilience under stress; he has not got much going for him in the terrible situations in which he finds himself, but he makes ingenious use of what he has got. This is an intelligent thriller in which we get to watch suspect, police and some very unpleasant heavies chase each other around in impressively convoluted circles. Coben is one of the best multiple-bluffers in the business. --Roz Kaveney

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
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"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 Johansen

"From the Hardcover edition.""

"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 Johansen

From the Hardcover edition.

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