Tell No One

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Summary: I challenge you to "TELL NO ONE!"
Review: Has someone ever told you a secret, and asked you not to tell anyone? In this story, someone has dug up a secret from the past, that others want to keep burried. The main character is told, to "tell no one." He finds out, if he tells anyone, it could be deadly. Can he trust anyone? Is this some kind of sick joke, or is he just dreaming? Read it and find out. I think you'll be suprised! I will "tell you this," the truth comes out in the end. If you love mystery/suspence stories, I highly recommend, Harlan Coben's, Tell No One!

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Summary: The Master Of Suspense
Review: This book was so amazing, I read it in just one sitting. I recommend this book to anyone who is simply a fan of great books. A non-stop thriller!

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Summary: More Twists than a Box of Pretzels!!!
Review: Harlan Coben's "Tell No One" is a terrific mystery-thriller--it's the story of a pediatrician for the indigent, Dr. David Beck, who's still trying to get on with his life after the apparent murder of his wife eight years ago. Beck and his wife had been best friends since they were seven years old and eventually (after going to separate colleges) get married. Eight short months after (and several important events occur in these eight short months...events the author reveals as the story progresses) they're wed, Beck is hit over the head with a bat, and his wife is taken and believed to be murdered by a notorious serial killer. If this all sounds far-fetched, it doesn't come off that way in the text. The novel moves rapidly as it is revealed (the author skips eight years) or made clear that perhaps Beck's wife is still alive. The reader is treated to many twists and turns and a slew of suspects and suspicious behavior as Beck attempts to make sense out of what happened eight years ago (and in the months prior) and whether or not he will be reunited with his wife, or tried for her murder.
The only real complaint is the switching (and subsequent alternation) of the narrator about midway through the book. Initially told in the first person voice of Dr. Beck, for some reason (likely convenience as it doesn't really enhance the story at all) the author resorts to a third person narrator in order to reveal the actions of some of the other major characters in this mystery. The book would have been more powerful if the entire mystery and its solution had been told through Beck's character.
Nevertheless: a rapid read (easy to finish in a weekend) and a heckuva thriller/mystery. Highly recommended.

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Summary: brilliant
Review: edge of your seat suspense,sometimes i find it hard to get into a book,it has to catch me for word one and this book did.I read like i was watching a brilliantly entertaining and thrilling movie,keeping me engaged from page 1 to page 339.For anyone who like crime novels with twists and turns your will love this.

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Summary: Real Page Turner
Review: This is the best mystery/thriller I have read in years--and I read A Lot! Though I had never heard of this author, the synopsis intrigued me so much, I purchased it. From the very beginning I was not sorry. I read into the early morning hours, literally until my eyes crossed, and finished it the next day. I have to admire the author for thinking up such a intriguing plot and for being able to put down the words in such a way that I couldn't stop reading.

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Summary: Why switch narrators???
Review: I was wowed up until chapter 5, very Hitchcockian. BUT!! Suddenly he switches narrators, from 1st to third, then every other chapter the narrator switches back and forth, even within the chapters themselves. Most annoying. Harlan is clearly a good writer but this book would have been so much better if it were all in the third person or he wrote a slightly different story with the 1st person point of view.

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Summary: Excellent read
Review: First book I'd read by Harlan Coben - it was a page turner until the end. I've read one other by Coben - one of his Myron Bolitar series - didn't get to me like Tell No One, but I felt compelled to read to the end to find out what happens. I'm reading his "Spin Back" now and it's holding my interest. I'm not into sports at all, but find that his Myron Bolitar stories are fairly interesting and can be quite amusing in spite of the sports aspect. Would recommend his books.

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Summary: Shades of The Fujitive
Review: Harlan Coben's newest tome has more than a little in common with The Fujitive: doctor, dead wife, police manhunt, lots of seemingly trivial clues. Dr. David Beck's idealic marriage to Elizabeth is shattered when she is murdered under strange circumstances, and eight years after the event it appears that she may not be dead. When new evidence turns up associating Dr. Beck with the past "crime" and a new murder of an old friend, the doctor goes on the lam. There is an assortment of secondary characters, ranging from a vengeful billionaire to a drug dealer to a pair of deadly hitmen, that spice up the plot as it moves forward to a suprising conclusion with several twists and turns along the way. The usual humor and wisecracks associated with Coben's Myron Bolitar series are missing from ths book, and may disappoint fans expecting another seriocomic romp, but Tell No One should attract a wider audiencer for the writer. Coben knows how to create a suspense scene, even when the reader knows the protagonist will somehow make his escape to continue his adventure. All of the miscellaneous plot points are neatly pulled together, and at the conclusion of the book the reader finally understands the true meaning of the title.

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Summary: Terrible writer
Review: I couldn't finish the book. The writing, I am not talking about the story yet, is what you might expect from a High School freshman. It is clumsy, predictable, and has little imagination. The writer also tries to save himself by having quirky charcters yet ruins it by giving them traits from a typical sitcom. The story is not much better although the idea could taken off with a interesting writer. Here is one writer who tries to follow all the formulas for writing a mystery but without any of the talent that makes a story a good ride.

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Summary: Poor Beyond Belief
Review: Here are some tips from your humble reviewer.
1. Never buy a book by an author you do not know where the only
blurb on the book is from other authors.
2. Never buy a book where the blurb from the "author-reviewers"
includes cliches like "gut wrenching suspense".
3. Never buy a "Scooby Doo" novel. That is one with so few
characters that either (a) the bad guy is obvious or (b) you
realise they all could have done it and you are just waiting for
the author to pick the guilty party.
4. "Scooby Doo" never had ( cliche alert ) a "slam bang surprise
ending" - and neither does this book, despite what one of the
earnest "author-reviewers" says.
This book is incredibly poor. AND it is going to be a movie ????
My recommendation is.........Avoid.