The Woods - Harlan Corban

[melt66]

Loved it!!! It's a page turner ... great thriller :wink: for a day at the beach.

[like2bike]

Thanks Mare! We're going to the beach in July--I may have to add this to my "must read" list!

[tracik]

Loved it!!! It's a page turner ... great thriller :wink: for a day at the beach.

Is this one of Coben's stories that's independent of the series he writes? I love the individual stories (Tell No One, No Second Chance, etc.), but I've never read any of the Myron Bolitar series. His books are so much fun to read! Thanks for the suggestion. :D

[jsejt]

Can you give a brief bio on this, I was thinking about getting it but wanted to know more about it. Pretty Please.

[melt66]

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
At the start of this disappointing stand-alone from bestseller Coben (Promise Me), Paul "Cope" Copeland, acting county prosecutor for Essex County, N.J., and Lucy Gold, his long-lost summer camp love, are still haunted by a fateful night, decades earlier, when their nighttime tryst allowed some younger campers, including Cope's sister, to venture into the nearby forest, where they apparently fell victim to the Summer Slasher, a serial killer. Cope's intense focus on a high-profile rape prosecution of some wealthy college students shifts after one of the Slasher's victims, whose body was never found, turns up as a recent corpse in Manhattan, casting doubt on the official theory of the old case. Cope's own actions on that night again come under scrutiny, even as the highly placed fathers of the men he's prosecuting work to unearth as many skeletons as possible to pressure him into dropping the rape case. Less than compelling characters fail to compensate for a host of implausibilities. Hopefully, Coben will return to form with his next book. (Apr.)
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Library Journal
Paul Copeland is a county prosecutor working on a difficult case when two policemen arrive and take him to the morgue to identify a body. The case sets up echoes from Paul's past, forcing him to relive 20-year-old events and the day that destroyed his innocence. When he was a teenager, Paul was at a summer camp with his sister. He neglected his duties, instead rendezvousing with a girl, and in the end what started as a prank resulted in four deaths. Haunted daily by his actions, Paul now sees an opportunity for redemption. Can he sort out what really happened on that fateful night?
The exploration of ordinary people with life-shattering secrets is a common thread in Coben's novels. Instead of this premise becoming stale, though, he has created another surprising and emotional story that will remain with the reader long after the last page is finished. One of Coben's best, and a necessary purchase.

[jsejt]

Hey thanks! As I started to read the review I was thinking, "duh, you could of looked it up."

[jsejt]

Got it last night, I'll let you know. My summer reading has begun!