Tell No One
by Harlan Coben
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Book Reviews of Tell No One
Book Review: Very Good Layered American Thriller (made into Excellent FRENCH movie)
Summary: 4 Stars
I first saw the movie, an excellent French movie. It was so good that when it was done I thought that I had not seen anything that good in years. My big surprise was that it was based on an American novel by Harlan Coben. I like Harlan Coben's novels. They are all 4 stars for me. They are enjoyable reads with great twists and turns. However, I forget them as soon as I'm done. The film however is unforgettable. Not only a great mystery but a great love story. I just read the novel, interested in seeing if Coben went beyond my usual 4 stars and no, he did not. The novel is his usual great rollicking plot based mystery thriller. However, it is not a great love story.
The plot is pure Coben where it grabs you on page one and just keeps getting unraveling from there until it comes together at the end. A pediatrician lost his wife to a serial killer eight years ago. Two other bodies are discovered that tie into her murder at the time the story begins, eight years after her death. This unleashes all sorts of inquiries into her death and most bizarrely, the husband receives an email message from her present day with a video showing she is alive. Her email message though is that he must tell no one that she is alive. So he tries to find out if she ever really died eight years ago and runs into obstacle after obstacle.
Book Review: Another page turner from Coben
Summary: 4 Stars
I first discovered Harlan Coben after picking up a second-hand copy of Gone for Good as was pleasantly suprised by the quickness of the read and his ability to keep the reader turning pages. With Tell No One, Coben has hit the bullseye again.
The story this time centers around David Beck, a very decent citizen and doctor whose wife and soulmate was supposedly murdered by a serial killer eight years ago. Everyone in David's life has told him to move on but no one he has met comes close to replacing his former wife in his heart. Then suddenly on the eigth anniversary of her death a message comes across David's computer screen that contains knowledge that only his dead wife could possess. Is she alive? Or his someone playing headgames with him?
From here Coben's novel zig-zag's through the usual plot twists and turns which will keep the reader turning the pages very quickly. Although the characters are not of incredible depth, Harlan Coben gives you just enough detail and dimension to keep you rooting for them as they try to overcome the obstacles set in their way.
Coben writes with a lean prose style which makes the action transpire very quickly and keeps the book moving at a breakneck pace. If you enjoy the thrillers of James Patterson then you will love Tell No One.
Book Review: Tell everyone about Tell No One
Summary: 5 Stars
There are three very good reasons to read this book, and one of them is that it's full of mysterious events. The book starts off with a married couple in there 20's who are off at their private cabin. One night the couple were at the lake swimming when out of no where the wife was kidnapped in the dark. The husband got smacked on the head and passed out in the lake. The husband, who is a well-known doctor in the small community that they live in survives. The wife is found on the side of the road dead, and a serial killer is to blame. The second reason to read this book is its full of surprises. Nine years goes by and the husband gets an e-mail from his dead wife, but it says to tell no one! Well, he keeps it a secret and tries to find out more about it, to see if he believes them or not. The third reason to read Tell No One, is because it has major suspense. As the husband investigates about these e-mails his friends keep dying out of no where. The big twist comes into play when his wife's case is re-opened and he is to be blamed for the mysterious murder. The husband gets more suspicious that the truth is being hidden from him. Throughout the book I kept having to change who I thought the real killer was. This book kept reading until the very last word, so tell everyone about Tell No One.Book Review: WOW - I could not put it down
Summary: 5 Stars
It's rare that I find books that I just have to keep reading, but TELL NO ONE by Harlan Coben is one such book.
Eight years ago, David Beck's wife was murdered. But out of the blue, he receives an e-mail that appears to be sent by his murdered wife - it contains information that only the two of them would know. How can that be? This is the start of the mystery that David Beck begins to unravel.
While trying to figure out who sent him the e-mail, he gradually discovers more and more secrets from the past. At the same time, David Beck realizes that someone is out to get him. As the book progresses, he finds himself in greater and greater danger. This is (in my mind) the perfect thriller set-up - the protagonist is being chased, while at the same time trying to solve a mystery.
TELL NO ONE is a quick and easy read. The plot unfolds at a good pace, as more and more is revealed, and it kept me hooked until the end (with some good final twists on the last few pages).
This is the first book I've read by Harlan Coben, and I will definitely read more by him. After I finished reading it, I told my wife about it. She ended up liking it as much as I did - once she started reading it, she basically devoured in a single day. Highly recommend.
Book Review: Coben's first stand-alone is still the best
Summary: 4 Stars
If only Amazon allowed us to review in half-stars. Frustration!
Coben's first stand-alone is still his best. I was so taken with this novel that it, along with Darkness, Take My Hand by Lehane and Cujo by King, created within me the irresistible urge to write genre fiction. The writing is crisp and at its most descriptive here than in any of his other books, the Bolitar series included. His characters are believable, albeit still overly quirky. For some reason Coben thinks a character can only be interesting if he crams them full of colorful idiosyncracies. Fans of Myron Bolitar know this tendency of Coben's to be true. Their eccentricities occasionally detract from the story, but the strength of the plot and the twists and turns provide the impetus to forge ahead.
And you're not disappointed. The twists come at a relentless clip (only Deaver can compare in the twist department), and as the pace picks up you gain the sensation of free-falling, as if Beck's life has gotten so out of control that there's no way he can right it again. Yet at the end it all comes together, and credibly at that. You're left with one heck of a ride, catching your breath and wanting to read the next stand-alone. A four and a half stars guaranteed thrill.