From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of
suspense comes a fast-paced, emotion-packed novel about
guilt, grief, and our capacity to forgive
17-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her
suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team,
headed off to college next year with all the hopes and
dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when
her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came
home the night before, and three months quickly pass without
word from the girl, the community assumes the worst.
Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission, to identify
and bring down sexual predators via elaborate—and nationally
televised—sting operations. Working with local police on her
news program Caught in the Act, Wendy and her team have
publicly shamed dozens of men by the time she encounters her
latest target. Dan Mercer is a social worker known as a
friend to troubled teens, but his story soon becomes more
complicated than Wendy could have imagined.
In a
novel that challenges as much as it thrills, filled with the
astonishing tension and unseen suburban machinations that
have become Coben’s trademark, Caught tells the story
of a missing girl, the community stunned by her loss, the
predator who may have taken her, and the reporter who
suddenly realizes she can’t trust her own instincts about
this story—or the motives of the people around her.