Several years ago, while visiting my cousin Becky in St. Louis for some concert or another, she passed along some books that she thought my mom and I would enjoy. I come from a long line of book passers. One of them was Seabiscuit which was excellent. The second was a book I’d never heard of written by an author that ditto on the hearing of part. The book was No Second Chance by Harlan Coben. It was of the thriller/mystery genre that I so enjoy. I was under the impression it was the author’s first book and for some reason I never looked to see if he had written anything else. Rather odd for me since I found the book so completely compelling in that great “you just can’t put it down” way.
Fast forward a few years and I’m wandering around on amazon.com looking at new releases and I see “Harlan Coben” and the name sparks some recognition. I read on to see that it is the author of the book I had enjoyed. Delighted with a new book possibility, I headed over to my library’s online catalog to see if they had the book. And they did.
The Innocent was another fast-moving page turner. The story revolves around a man who gets involved in a stupid fight at a college party where one person ends up dead and the main character goes to jail. The story continues after he is released and has seemingly put his life back together and is about to enjoy becoming a father for the first time. But that’s just way to neat and tidy for a book of this genre. So there are secrets revealed and police investigations and man-hunts and people running for their lives. Its a fast moving read. A bit James Patterson in that respect, but not nearly as creepy.
The worst part was that I started reading this book about three days before I moved while I was on Thanksgiving vacation. I so didn’t have the time to want to keep reading it every night, but I did. It was the first book I finished after moving into my new place.
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