Ken and Barbie just scared my socks off!!! And as far as I am concerned, Mr.

I have not read anything by this author before and in some respects it is like reading Poe with a splash here and there of De Sade. This book has lots of twists and turns and everyone has many secrets. I didnt know how long I could stick with that then finally his pitch and cadence changed. Master of domestic suspense Harlan Coben delivers his trademark combination of pause-resistant thrills and unrivaled insight into the dark shadows that creep into even the happiest communities.Īt the beginning I thought, Good Grief, Scott Brick sounds like he's reading Edgar Allan Poe with some sort of funeral dirge in the background. And as each confronts the dark side of the American dream-the boredom of a nice suburban life, the excitement of temptation, the desperation and hunger that can lurk behind even the prettiest façades-they will discover the hard truth that the line between one kind of life and another can be as whisper-thin as a heartbeat. Even as the terrible consequences of long-ago events crash together in the present and threaten to ruin lives, they will come to the startling realization that they may not want to forget the past at all. Three people living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect, will find that the past never truly fades away. Broome is a detective who can’t let go of a cold case-a local husband and father who disappeared 17 years ago-and spends the anniversary every year visiting a house frozen in time, the missing man’s family still waiting, his slippers left by the recliner as if he might show up at any moment to step into them. Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer, but at the age of 40 he finds himself in a dead-end job posing as a paparazzo, pandering to celebrity-obsessed rich kids. Now she’s got two kids, a perfect husband, a picket fence, and a growing sense of dissatisfaction. Megan is a suburban soccer mom who, once upon a time, walked on the wild side.

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