Tell No One

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Summary: This Book Is So Good!
Review: This book is so Good I just want to read all over aign and aign,

In this story is about when Dr. David Beck, the loss was-

shattering. And every day the past eight years, he has relived

The horror,I pick this book at a school liarbriy.

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Summary: Fast paced suspense thriller
Review: This book is fast paced and well written. With a few twist to make it an excellent book to read.

Dr. david Beck's wife, Elizabeth, was killed 8 years ago. On the eve of their 8th anniversary, he receives an email from her, using words and terms only they know about.

The story moves on quickly from there. With david trying to find out if the email was a hoax, the police got involved, some baddies came about. The story twists and turns from here at a very fast pace, keeping the reader, ie me, hooked.

Wonderful!

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Summary: I Didn't Rush Out To Tell Anyone about "Tell No One"
Review: Let me begin by saying that I am not a major fan of suspense-thriller novels, so I read this book after my wife walked away from it feeling confused and disappointed. I was intrigued by the fragments of the story she shared with me, and so I picked it up and gave it a read.

The novel, "Tell No One" by Harlan Coben, is a somewhat dis-jointed novel about a husband who loses his wife while on a getaway with her at a family cabin. He is attacked and left for dead, and when he recovers, he discovers his wife is taken.

Eight years later, having long believed that his wife is dead, he receives a strange Email that suggests that she is anything but. Before long, the story delves into a tale of deceit, murder, corruption which ultimately leads the husband into a world that put his life in great peril.

Sounds like fun, doesn't it?

It is, but the novel, written partially in the first person, partially in the third, reads more like a screenplay than a novel. The characters are shallow, with little or no development which often leaves the reader feeling indifferent about the situations they are placed in. Coben's ability to depict some of the graphic acts taken on various characters throughout the novel read more like a "how-to" manual than descriptive narrative, leaving the reader feeling grossed out and unsettled (which may be the desired effect), but his inability to translate that method of storytelling to the thoughts and motivations of his characters again leave the reader feeling unsympathetic to the plight of the victims.

To his credit, this story moves quickly, and does not drone on with the exposition so many writers of this genre employ, placing and presenting background for the situations and events in a way that can often bore the reader, or be insulting to their intelligence, but I think this novel could have used a little character expositon to give them depth and belivability.

For those looking for an incredible, unbelievable story that they can escape into for a few hours, this novel is probably for you. However, do not expect it to be a great literary work-its not. Its very predictable, relying on graphic violence to fill the void of genuine suspense. If you are looking for a more intense novel in this genre, try Thomas Harris's "Lecter" novels. They hit the mark far more solidly than this effort.

Scott Kolecki

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Summary: Great entertainment!
Review: This is the second book by Harlan Coben I read (first is 'Gone For Good'). Both are exceptionally well written and have everything: great plot that keeps you guessing till the end, good characters development, etc. The only thing that prevented me from giving this book five stars is that somehow it reminds me the first his book I read (I am not sure which one was printed first). The theme of missing woman, which is actually hiding, is just too similar. Other than that great mistery novel.

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Summary: More than 5 stars
Review: If there was a higher rating available, this book would receive it from me. I dont know how anybody could rate this book any lower. Mr. Coben has such a great talent. You are hooked from the very first page, and just cant get enough of his writing. A++++

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Summary: Back from the Dead
Review: Dr. David Beck boots up his computer to check his e-mail and finds a message from his dead wife that tells him to click on a link. He does and he sees her on the screen. She's aged, but then she's been dead for a long time. At first he thinks it's a hoax, but the woman on the screen looks so much like her, and she knows things that only his wife knew. She tells him in a further e-mail that he's being watched and to, "Tell no one."

David is forced to go back and examine the mysterious circumstances surrounding his wife's murder and all of a sudden he finds that someone is indeed watching him, then someone tries to kill him and now the police are after him for murder and there is nowhere he can hide.

Coben has written a thriller that'll have you on the edge of your seat, biting your nails as he takes you on Dr. Beck's journey. Coben breaks all of a novelist's rules when he writes, slipping between first and second person, past and present tense with ease in his own gifted style. He is so good with words, so good with a story, but beware, once your read one of his books, you're going to have to go out and get them all.

Ken Douglas, Underpaid Writer

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Summary: I missed work because of this!!
Review: Please tell no one (sorry) that I missed work because of this. Wow...this is a page turner! I started the book last night at about 8pm, read non-stop until 3am, couldn't sleep because I was all riled up, took the following day off and finished it by 12 noon (even lost weight due to sweat-provoking anxiousness). In general, I have found Coben to be lightweight, with the characters and plot often unbelievable. The dialogue in his books walks the cutesy line a little too much for my tastes as well. This book has much of that (a bit unbelievable--both characters and plot....I especially found the lesbian and african-american "speak" particularly annoying), but it really didn't matter. I was so absorbed in the book, that I found it impossible to put it down. You really aren't allowed to breathe easy at the end of any chapter....constant trouble for our poor Beck. Great book.....lot's of fun.....save it for a day when you have nothing else to do and read it from start to finish.

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Summary: Exceptional
Review: I have read several Coben novels, all were winners but TELL NO ONE is by far my favorite. TELL NO ONE will hold you captive hours beyond your bedtime. Coben, who has a talent for creating rich, multi-dimensional characters and rivetingly original plots, has out done himself with this narrative. For eight long years Dr. David Beck has moved numbly through his existence. Since the day that his wife, Elizabeth, the woman he had loved since the age of seven, was kidnapped and murdered, David Beck has survived for his patients. Then a strange email pops up on his screen with information only Elizabeth knew and the words "Tell no one." The accounting that follows as Dr. Beck delves into his wife's death, hoping that she is still alive, will give you chills and raise the hairs on the back of your neck. TELL NO ONE will have you telling all your reading friends about this best seller.
Beverly J Scott author of "Righteous Revenge" and "Ruth Fever." Reviewer for Intriguing Authors and Their Books at http://www.funeralassociates.com/authors.htm

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Summary: No, Tell Everyone!
Review: Dr. David Beck and his wife Elizabeth have been participating in a ritual for years: Each year, they return to the tree where together they carved their initials as kids. During one celebration, Beck is beaten up and Elizabeth vanishes.

Eight years pass. Elizabeth's body has been found, her murderer has been jailed, and Beck has tried to get on with his life. It hasn't been easy, and it sure doesn't get any easier when Beck gets an email from a person who seems to know things that only Elizabeth could know. Now if he could only find her. That might be difficult: The police have uncovered evidence that Beck might have had something to do with Elizabeth's death. But they're not the only ones after him.

With 'Tell No One,' Harlan Coben has established himself as one of the genre's top mystery writers. And while I think his next book 'Gone for Good' is a better book, 'Tell No One' delivers mystery, suspense, action, thrills, deception, and danger on a very high level. I had a few quibbles here and there with some of the characters and their motivations, but the story was gripping and made me turn the pages at a pretty good rate. If you haven't tried Coben, 'Tell No One' is a good place to start. You certainly won't be bored. Tell everyone.

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Summary: Edge of my seat
Review: It's clique I know, but Coban's novels always have me on the edge of my seat. Well, at least this one and Gone for Good. I think I've found one of my new favorite suspense writers. This guy is great!

I loved this book because one- it's fast paced. You're not bored to death at the unimportant details of this guy's life. Two- the characters are likable. I love how at certain parts he's talking to you. Three- you don't have any idea how it will end up. But he feeds you enough along the way, so that you, like the character are figuring somethings out in the process.

This book was a fun read, it went by very quickly. If you're looking for a new author to try and you like authors like James Patterson, Michael Connelly or John Grisham, I'd recommend this book.