The Stranger by Harlan Coben
The Stranger is a strange kind of book. Adam is a lawyer with a wife and 2 sons living the good life in suburbia. One day a total--yes you guessed it--stranger comes up to him and says his wife faked her last pregnancy and miscarriage. Then the stranger disappears. When Adam confronts his wife, she doesn't deny it--then she disappears. The sons want to know where Mom is and Adam has no clue.
He starts trying to track down the identity of the stranger to see if he can figure out what's going on.
Then the stranger strikes again, telling a happily married woman what her college-age daughter has been up to. Only this Stranger-victim ends up dead. The cop involved in this case also gets involved in Adam's case, even though Adam lives in a totally different state, which seemed a tad unlikely.
It's an interesting premise for a story and it held my interest. But there were a lot of implausibilities. And the ending kind of came out of nowhere. So I'd say it's a good beach book but not the best Harlan Coben book.
He starts trying to track down the identity of the stranger to see if he can figure out what's going on.
Then the stranger strikes again, telling a happily married woman what her college-age daughter has been up to. Only this Stranger-victim ends up dead. The cop involved in this case also gets involved in Adam's case, even though Adam lives in a totally different state, which seemed a tad unlikely.
It's an interesting premise for a story and it held my interest. But there were a lot of implausibilities. And the ending kind of came out of nowhere. So I'd say it's a good beach book but not the best Harlan Coben book.
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