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The international #1 bestselling author of The Boy from the Woods and The Match is back with another impossible-to-put-down thriller, now a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller!
'The absolute master' RICHARD OSMAN
'One of the all-time greats' GILLIAN FLYNN
'At the top of his game' PETER JAMES
'Never lets you down' LEE CHILD
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You think you know the truth. The truth is you know nothing.
If your husband was murdered.
And you were a witness.
How do you explain it when he appears on your nanny cam, back from the dead?
You thought you trusted him.
Now you can't even trust yourself.
Dark secrets and a terrifying hunt for the truth lie at the heart of this gripping thriller by the 'master of the double twist' Harlan Coben.
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Readers love Fool Me Once . . .
***** 'This book was such a spine tingling page turner!'
***** 'The story was fast-paced and very captivating. I couldn't wait to see how everything would turn out.'
***** 'Any reader who enjoys a cleverly plotted book filled with twists and turns will enjoy this one.'
***** 'An excellent thriller, packed with taut, edgy suspense, and is certainly entertaining.'
***** 'What a story. What a plot.'
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCornerstone Digital
- Publication date24 March 2016
- File size3720 KB
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Narrator January LaVoy's well-paced performance enhances the tension of this stand-alone thriller.... LaVoy's dynamic narration and distinct characterizations make this multilayered story a winning audiobook. (AudioFile)
"Coben is simply one of the all-time greats--pick up any one of his thrillers and you'll find a riveting, twisty, surprising story with a big, beating heart at its core."--Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of Gone Girl
"[A] stellar standalone...Coben is like a skilled magician saving the best, most stunning trick for the very end."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Coben hits the bull's eye again...masterfully paced plotting...a tale guaranteed to fool even the craftiest readers a lot more than once."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Coben proves his thriller mastery once more."--Entertainment Weekly
"Harlan Coben, master of the suburban thriller, has written another compelling and twist-filled tale with 'Fool Me Once.'...The unpredictability of the story will keep readers literally turning the pages to try and figure out what is really going on. Even those savvy enough to figure out some of the ending will not uncover everything, and the whopper of a payoff not only will have jaws dropping, but also demonstrates Coben's skill as a writer."--Associated Press
"Coben has done it again with this fast-paced, smart thriller."--Library Journal (starred review)
"Harlan Coben has long been the master of the jaw-dropping twist. But in Fool Me Once, he knocks our legs out from under us as well.... [It] just might be his crowning achievement."--Providence Journal
"This was one of Coben's greatest unexpected endings!"--Suspense Magazine
"Harlan Coben is a master of his craft and a wizard with words.... Fool Me Once is him at his best and there is no shame in having him trick us one more time. In fact, most of us will be begging him to fool us again and again and again."--Jackie K. Cooper, book critic, The Huffington Post
--This text refers to the mp3_cd edition.Product details
- ASIN : B015PEXCGO
- Publisher : Cornerstone Digital (24 March 2016)
- Language : English
- File size : 3720 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 402 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 15,022 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 505 in Psychological Thrillers (Kindle Store)
- 659 in Psychological Thrillers (Books)
- 1,022 in Crime Thrillers (Kindle Store)
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About the author

With over 70 million books in print worldwide, Harlan Coben is the #1 New York Times author of thirty one novels including RUN AWAY, FOOL ME ONCE, TELL NO ONE, NO SECOND CHANCE and the renowned Myron Bolitar series. His books are published in 43 languages around the globe.
Harlan is the creator and executive producer for the Netflix television dramas SAFE starring Michael C. Hall, Audrey Fleurot and Amanda Abbington, and THE FIVE starring Tom Cullen and OT Fagbenle. He is currently filming THE STRANGER, based on his novel, for Netflix starring Richard Armitage, Siobhan Finneran, Jennifer Saunders and Stephen Rea. Harlan was also showrunner and executive producer for two French TV mini-series, UNE CHANCE DE TROP (NO SECOND CHANCE) with Alexandra Lamy and JUST UN REGARD (JUST ONE LOOK) with Virginie Ledoyen. KEINE ZWEIT CHANCE, also based on Harlan’s novel, aired in Germany on Sat1.
Harlan’s novel TELL NO ONE (NE LE DIS A PERSONNE) was turned into the renowned French film, directed by Guillaume Canet and starring Francois Cluzet. The movie was the top box office foreign-language film of the year in USA, won the Lumiere (French Golden Globe) for best picture and was nominated for nine Cesars (French Oscar) and won four, including best actor, best director and best music. The movie with subtitles is now available on Netflix, Amazon Prime and DVD/Blu-Ray.
Winner of the Edgar Award, Shamus Award and Anthony Award – the first author to win all three – international bestselling author Harlan Coben’s critically-acclaimed novels have been called “ingenious” (New York Times), “poignant and insightful” (Los Angeles Times), “consistently entertaining” (Houston Chronicle), “superb” (Chicago Tribune) and “must reading” (Philadelphia Inquirer).
In his first books, Coben immersed himself in the exploits of sports agent Myron Bolitar. Critics loved the series, saying, “You race to turn pages…both suspenseful and often surprisingly funny” (People). After seven books Coben wanted to try something different. “I came up with a great idea that simply would not work for Myron,” says Coben. The result was the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller TELL NO ONE, which became the most decorated thriller of the year. Two books later, Bookspan, recognizing Coben’s broad international appeal, named NO SECOND CHANCE its first ever International Book of the Month in 2003 – the Main Selection in 15 different countries.
Harlan was the first writer in more than a decade to be invited to write fiction for the NEW YORK TIMES op-ed page. His Father’s Day short story, THE KEY TO MY FATHER, appeared June 15, 2003. His essays and columns have appeared in many top publications including the New York Times, Parade Magazine and Bloomberg Views.
Harlan has received an eclectic variety of honors from all over the world. In Paris, he was awarded the prestigious Vermeil Medal of Honor for contributions to culture and society by the Mayor of Paris. He was won the El Premio del Novela Negra RBA in Spain, the Grand Prix de Lectrices in France, and the CWA/ITV3 Bestseller Dagger for favorite crime novelist in England. On the other end of the spectrum, Little League Baseball inducted Harlan into their Hall of Excellence in 2013, and Harlan is also a member of the New England Basketball Hall of Fame from his playing days at Amherst College.
Harlan was born in Newark, New Jersey. He still lives in New Jersey with his wife, Anne Armstrong-Coben MD, a pediatrician, and their four children.
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The novel opens at Joe's funeral. He has been killed while with Maya at Central Park in New York; seemingly during a robbery gone sour.
Now Maya is a widow with a two-year-old daughter, Lily, who she loves very much and wants to protect. When a friend gives her a nanny cam, just after the funeral she sets it up in the den where Lily plays. Everything goes well until watching the pictures from the nanny cam she sees her dead husband enter the room and play with her daughter.
The shock of seeing Joe still alive and walking around their house galvanises her into wondering what is really the truth about her husband's murder. This is not Maya's first experience with death. Her sister was recently murdered. While in Iraq, Maya was responsible for the death of civilians. These deaths haunt her and now she has to deal with what happened to her husband and how he could have appeared on the nanny cam. I really can't provide any detail without spoiling this incredible book. Let me just say if you enjoy thrillers with lots of twists, outstanding characters, and a riveting plot, don't miss this one. Maya is one of the strongest female characters I've read in a long time. She's well trained military and completely fearless. Her friends in the book and even the evil characters are engaging. The plot is filled with twists. Every time you think you've figured out what's happening the frame shifts and you see it from a different angle.
The ending is completely unexpected but one that is logical and a result of everything established. An extremely mesmerising read.
Five stars for a book that is so much more. Mr Coben, you are a genius. Thank you.
It's challenging, gritty and a mind bender that focuses on Maya - the grieving widow, ex-war pilot with PTSD.
Thus story is like watching a loaded powder keg with a long wick on slow burn.
You know it's gonna go boom, not sure of the fallout or who will get caught in the cross hairs.
Gripping read.
Coben is an expert writer and No doubt, he has written some absolute crackers that keep you on the edge of your seat... But if that's what you're used to, and what you're looking for with this one, you might be disappointed. Sorry Mr Coben.
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The end of the book is disappointing and seemed an easy way out for what could have been a good plot.
Would not recommend to anyone looking for a halfway decent crime thriller.

But because I so liked the story I have given him a pass on this particular one, since I know I've penalised him fairly before !! I really liked Maya and how she tackled things head-on and brooked no nonsense or BS from anybody. Good girl. The ending had me howling, though....sat in the garden in the sun with tears.....not the best look !!
Errors, now....like words dropped out of sentences, "They all just didn't have clue" or, "But now we need to take a closer at the home life" and "...Olympic-sized pain the ass"....just highly irritating.
He used the word prenatally violent when I'm pretty sure he actually meant preternaturally, but then I'm not inside his head, so who knows ? It makes more sense my way, however, Mr Coben !! Then charge charges and not card charges was written and not picked up, either, which was sloppy.
Errors aside, I thought it was a terrific book and I'm always going to be reading this author, Myron Bolitar collection aside.


This is presented as a quest by a woman to right so many wrongs, and to answer questions, however improbable. That entire premise is blown away in the final pages, not just in what is now a typical trademark Cobenesque about-face, but in a complete abandonment of the main theme of the entire plot. Never again.