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GoodReads Synopsis:  Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side. Now she’s got two kids, a perfect husband, a picket fence, and a growing sense of dissatisfaction. Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer, but at age forty he finds himself in a dead-end job posing as a paparazzo pandering to celebrity-obsessed rich kids. Jack is a detective who can’t let go of a cold case—a local husband and father disappeared seventeen years ago, and Jack spends the anniversary every year visiting a house frozen in time, the missing man’s family still waiting, his slippers left by the recliner as if he might show up any moment to step into them. Three people living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect, will find that the past doesn’t recede. Even as the terrible consequences of long-ago events crash together in the present and threaten to ruin lives, they will come to the startling realization that they may not want to forget the past at all. And as each confronts the dark side of the American Dream—the boredom of a nice suburban life, the excitement of temptation, the desperation and hunger that can lurk behind even the prettiest facades—they will discover the hard truth that the line between one kind of life and another can be as whisper-thin as a heartbeat.

My Thoughts: In the last two years, I've read every single one of Harlan Coben's books except one.  The was the next to last one I had to finish to finally catch up with his current publishing schedule.  He's easily one of my favorite writers.  But this was not my favorite of his books.  Perhaps it was because I've read so many recently that I was slightly burned out on them.  Or perhaps it genuinely was not as good as the others.  Who knows.  

It's a perfectly fine thriller, don't get me wrong.  The story was gripping, and there were plot twists that I did not anticipate.  But I guessed who the killer was early on and was proven right.  The journey to the end was entertaining and fun, just not up to Coben's usual standard.  Three stars.

(If you want to read some of his best work, go with Gone for Good, Tell No One, or the Myron Bolitar series.)