Tell No One

Tell No One

Author: Harlan Coben

Publisher: Dell (2002)

ISBN: 0440236703

pages: 400

genre: Thriller suspense

4.5 (out of 5) STARS

Annotation: It's been eight years since Dr. David Beck's wife, Elizabeth, was murdered by a serial killer. When Beck receives a message containing a phrase only Elizabeth should know, he falls apart. Either someone is playing a sick joke, or his wife is still alive.

Summary: For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive.

Everyone tells him it’s time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossible–that somewhere, somehow, Elizabeth is alive.

Beck has been warned to tell no one. And he doesn’t. Instead, he runs from the people he trusts the most, plunging headlong into a search for the shadowy figure whose messages hold out a desperate hope.

But already Beck is being hunted down. He’s headed straight into the heart of a dark and deadly secret–and someone intends to stop him before he gets there. (www.goodreads.com)

Evaluation: Tell No One was my very first thriller suspense novel to read ever. And it was a wonderful surprise. I could not put it down and read it in nearly one day, which is unusual for me. There may have been parts that were unrealistic about this book but it was not distracting. And I was able to guess who did what near the very end. That was a pleasant surprise for me as well. This is a great book to start the thriller suspense genre with.

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No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay

Look Again by Lisa Scottoline

Darkness Peering by Alice Blanchard