One awful night, eighteen years ago, the lives of these three people were changed for all time. Now living lives they really don’t want, each one is hiding some very deep, dark secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect. Led by a past that will never go away, the trio return to the place of their trials to find out the truth at long last. As each one faces their own private hell, they soon find a story that has been lurking between the lines of their boring present and their dark, exciting past. Issue 1234 – Thursday, February 18, 2021". Production Weekly. 18 February 2021. Archived from the original on 28 February 2021 . Retrieved 28 February 2021. As her wedding approaches, Megan Pierce is troubled by a visitor from her past. Det. Mike Broome finds a new disappearance reminiscent of a cold case. Cush Jumbo as Megan Pierce-Shaw / Cassie Morris, a former stripper, now engaged with three children.

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Secondly, If you think you know who did it like 1/4 of the way in, you're right but the author adds an extra cup of cheesy pathos to the motive that undermines the only thing that was even mildly interesting about the killer. Megan Pierce is an ordinary soccer mom with an interesting past - one where she had to change her name to escape. Ray, her former love, is also muddling through life as a photographer, pining over the one that got away. And then there is a police detective (who seems to have a lot of free time to hang out with various ladies) who is committed to solving a crime from long ago. Did I guess who the serial killer was? Yes, about three quarters of the way through but I did keep reading to the end anyway just to make sure I was right and also to get one or two things straight in my mind which just were not making any sense to me. These little niggles were ironed out in the epilogue but I have to say that something just still did not seem right, it all felt just a little tenuous to me. 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. Dave's mother's claims of an unwanted visitor prove unsettling for Megan. Ray and Kayleigh both revisit the night Carlton — and others — went missing.

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Meanwhile, Carlton's father, a wealthy developer who distrusts the cops, hires a pair of psychopaths - blonde and beautiful Ken and Barbie - to find out what happened to Carlton. This horrific pair love inflicting pain and go on a torture spree to get information, an endeavor aided by a corrupt cop. Toward the end of the finale, Lorraine confesses to killing Carlton, too. Her confession is suspect, though, since his body is not with the rest of her countless victims in the underground bunker. As we soon learn, Lorraine is lying. She didn’t kill Carlton; she wasn’t even connected to his still technically unconfirmed death. Instead, Megan’s husband Dave (Daniel Francis) and daughter Kayleigh Shaw (Bethany Antonia) may have inadvertently killed Carlton. This was my third book by Harlan Coben, and will likely be my last. While he is undeniably a deft plotter, even when dealing with various strings and many characters to tie together, the characters are what really fall flat in my opinion. I am one of those readers who can be won over by compelling characters even if the plot is slightly weak, but decent plot AND weak characters leave no impression on me (except this negative one I am writing now, though the book as a whole is enormously forgettable. In fact, I cannot remember the plot of the other two I read by him either, except that in the end, the person with the gun won. Not particularly elegant...)

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I came across this author only a couple of years ago and have since enjoyed quite a few of his books.

So if I'm able to work with this cast of characters in front of me that you see, who wouldn't move [on] the story?" Harlan Coben has long been one of my favourite authors. I may not have read every single one of his books, but I haven’t missed many of them because he writes damn good thrillers. Megan enlists help from an old friend as she seeks out the truth about Stewart. Broome suspects a connection as more missing persons start piling up. The Character: Broome is a dedicated detective who hasn’t been able to let go of Stewart Green’s unsolved disappearance 17 years earlier. So when a new man — Carlton Flynn — similarly goes missing, Broome throws himself into the new case. Eventually, using informaton provided by Megan, Ray, and others, the police are able to figure out what's going on, but the solution is not satisfying or believable. Moreover, it was difficult (for me) to reconcile what happened to Green with the very profound changes in the lives of the main characters. Green was an abusive and unpleasant guy and it seemed to me that everyone was better off with him gone.