Maya Stern Burkett is an ex-military helicopter pilot who
has seen some terrible things during her time in the
service. She also understands all about personal loss. Her
sister, Claire, had been tortured and murdered. Now, her
husband, Joe, has been senselessly murdered right in front
of her. She is left to mourn him and is now a single mother
to their two year old daughter, Lily.
Joe's family is one of the wealthiest in the state and they
have known their share of loss as well. Joe's younger
brother had died several years earlier. His father also
passed away. His mother Judith is a psychologist and very
successful at it. Yes, death does seem to follow this family.
Joe is no sooner in the ground than Maya experiences
something that cannot be possible. Suffering from severe
flashbacks, she is up quite early and viewing the new nanny
cam that a friend had given to her. It is disguised as an
animated photo frame and sits innocently on a table with
other like items. While viewing the footage from the day
before, she sees something that cannot possibly be true. Her
dead husband appears in the footage.
Maya knows that something else must be going on and she
begins to start investigating the Burkett family. As she
uncovers more and more horrible secrets, she begins to
wonder exactly what sort of family she had married into.
There are things that must be done to right some wrongs and
Maya knows that she might just be the only one to accomplish
this. The question is whether or not she will get out of it
with her life.
Fans of Harlan Coben knows that he has a way of spinning a
tale that will make his readers do more than scratch their
heads in puzzlement. He makes the impossible become quite
possible as he takes his readers on a journey of nerve
jangling suspense. Constant surprises and shocks wait around
every corner. FOOL ME ONCE contains all of the elements that
his readers have come to expect from him. In addition, if
you are able to crack this case before the ending; you are a
very good arm chair detective, indeed, because Harlan Coben
does not write plots that will be easy to solve early on.
This is one of his best qualities. You can be assured that
you will travel a twisting and turning road of evil but you
will not know what that evil is until the end.
FOOL ME ONCE is a little different in a couple of ways
because this one just might make you cry in places. There is
such emotion written into the characters here that you might
even see some people that you know in your life in them.
Whatever you decide about these people, FOOL ME ONCE will
grip you from the very beginning and will haunt you for days
after you read that final sentence. Do not miss this one!
In the course of eight consecutive #1 New York Times
bestsellers, millions of readers have discovered Harlan
Coben’s page-turning thrillers, filled with his trademark
edge-of-your-seat suspense and gut-wrenching emotion. In
Fool Me Once, Coben once again outdoes himself.
Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an
unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at
work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya’s husband,
Joe—who had been brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The
provocative question at the heart of the mystery: Can you
believe everything you see with your own eyes, even when you
desperately want to? To find the answer, Maya must finally
come to terms with deep secrets and deceit in her own past
before she can face the unbelievable truth about her
husband—and herself.
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