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Average rating3.9
The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger delivers a twisted #1 New York Times bestseller about a man who—with the best of intentions—opens the wrong door... Reporter Wendy Tynes is making a name for herself, bringing down sexual offenders on nationally televised sting operations. But when social worker Dan Mercer walks into her trap, Wendy gets thrown into a story more complicated than she could ever imagine. Dan is tied to the disappearance of a seventeen-year-old New Jersey girl, and the shocking consequences will have Wendy doubting her instincts about the motives of the people around her, while confronting the true nature of guilt, grief, and her own capacity for forgiveness...
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Harlan Coben is one of my favourite authors but it took me a while to get into this one.
Once I did, it was worth the effort.
Head-snapping twists abound. Good stuff.
This is my second Harlan Coben book and, like the other, it never made me really care about the characters or the situation. I often criticize books for being over the top with the plot but Coben's books are equally underwhelming to me. The plot seemed to change mid course from the search to prove a man's innocence to... what? That wasn't really made clear until the end of the book. The conclusion had the typical double-twist, which is over-used, and it even included a semi-twist after that for a preachy ending.