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The Match

The Match, March 2022
Wilde #2
by Harlan Coben

Grand Central Publishing
Featuring: Wilde
400 pages
ISBN: 1538748282
EAN: 9781538748282
Kindle: B096RVLPV8
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"A real page turner!"

Fresh Fiction Review

The Match
Harlan Coben

Reviewed by Evie Harris
Posted March 21, 2022

Mystery Private Eye | Thriller Domestic

It was time. Wilde, known as the child who was found living in the woods by himself, wanted to know who his parents were and why he had been abandoned.  A match on an ancestry site left him with more questions than answers.

This is the second book in the Wilde series, but it can be read as a stand alone book. Well plotted, the story moves very quickly.  There is a large group of varied characters and their backstories add depth to the story.  As Wilde continues his search, people start dying and his personal life becomes even more complicated.  There are twists and turns and surprises as the mystery surrounding Wilde's early life deepens.

I found this story to well told.  It is complex and engrossing and as for the ending-it was a total surprise.  For readers looking for a page turner, THE MATCH is that book.  Highly recommended.

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SUMMARY

After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failed bid at domesticity that confirms what he’s known all along: He belongs on his own, free from the comforts and constraints of modern life.

Suddenly, a DNA match on an online ancestry database brings Wilde closer to his past than he’s ever dreamed, and finally gives Wilde the opening he needs to track down his father. But meeting the man brings up more questions than answers. So Wilde reaches out to his last, most desperate lead, a second cousin who disappears as quickly as he resurfaces, having experienced an epic fall from grace that can only be described as a waking nightmare.

Was his cousin’s downfall a long time coming? Or was he the victim of a conspiracy as cunning as it is complex? And how does it all connect to the man once known as The Stranger, a treacherous fugitive with a growing following whose mission and methods have only turned more dangerous with time?


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