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Average rating3.8
David and Cheryl Burroughs are living the dream - married, a beautiful house in the suburbs, a three year old son named Matthew - when tragedy strikes one night in the worst possible way. David awakes to find himself covered in blood, but not his own - his son's. And while he knows he did not murder his son, the overwhelming evidence against him puts him behind bars indefinitely. Five years into his imprisonment, Cheryl's sister arrives - and drops a bombshell. She's come with a photograph that a friend took on vacation at a theme park. The boy in the background seems familiar - and even though David realizes it can't be, he knows it is. It's Matthew, and he's still alive. David plans a harrowing escape from prison, determined to do what seems impossible - save his son, clear his own name, and discover the real story of what happened that devastating night.
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My first Harlan Coben book, even though I have watched the Netflix series based on his book Fool Me Once. Interesting story, fast paced, action packed, kept me engaged throughout with no dull pages. Every once in a while, I had to skip a few sentences because my heart was in my mouth, and I wanted to know what happens without waiting for the sequence to play through. (Fast forward please). Very unbelievable plot developments and details are employed but in the pace of the story, they can be forgiven. I may be feeling generous with the rating, it looks like I enjoy everything I get my hands on!
3.5 stars!!!
This was my first Harlan Coben and I had a good time! I didn't go into this expecting anything but I enjoyed the book enough to read the whole thing in one day. I'm not normally a fan of mysteries that have a police officer point of view, but the cop in this was super shady and downright horrible so I enjoyed it? My biggest complaint is that it felt unrealistic how easily the main character was able to avoid cops and just get away with everything that he did. I did enjoy the writing enough to read some of this author's backlog, so I'm excited for that!
Thank you to Grand Central Publishing and NetGalley for providing me with an eBook copy to review.
More of a 3.5 for me. There were no plot twists and I could guess the ending at about two third of the book