Search - The Woods

Coben does it again and ruins all my plans to run errands, cook, clean and grocery shop today. I could not put it down! I need to plan when to start a Coben better! And just when I thought I had it all figured out, whammy a sneak attack! Loved it, Loved it!

Wow! A dynamite read! Twists and turns to keep you reading! No disappointment here!

This was a great book. It kept my interest so well that I read it in 2 days. Great reading!

This is the first book by him that I have read and it will not be the last.
I could not put this book down it grabbed me from the start and didn't let go until the last page.

Wow. My first Coben book & I was very pleasantly surprised. Characters are fantastic & the ploy twists & turns.. wonderful

Very good thriller/mystery! Paul Copeland is a county prosecutor that still mourns his sister's death twenty years ago. They were at summer camp and his sister, Camille, and three other teenagers walked into the woods and were never seen again. As Cope is trying one of his biggest cases, he is linked to a murder victim. As hope rises that Camille may be alive after all these years, family secrets begin to surface.

Keeps you turning the pages to the end and leaves you wanting more. Five stars.

County prosecutor Paul Copeland lost a lot of loved ones in his life: his sister was murdered 20 years ago, his mother left him and his father overnight, his wife died of cancer and recently his father died as well.

Raising his six-year-old daughter with the help of his sister-in-law he now faces an angry father who's son stands trial for the rape of a young stripper girl. The father promises to do everything possible to destroy Paul's life if his money offer isn't accepted and the plaintiff doesn't accept his money offer to spare his son jail.

On top of that the past reaches into the present when suddenly a long thought dead body surfaces. One who supposedly should have been dead for about 20 years - except that the dead body is fairly fresh.
20 years ago four teenagers were killed in the woods. Two bodies surfaced and two, including Paul's sister Camille, were never found. Now Paul's hope rises that his sister might have survived as well.

Something is going on - not only in Paul's life: 20 years ago Lucy Silverstein, now known as Lucy Gold, fell in love with Paul, the junior camp counselor in her father's camp. One night, the night that would change their lives forever. While Lucy and Paul were making out in the woods, four of the campers Paul was supposed to watch over, were killed in the very same woods.
Today, due to an assignment to her students, Lucy received an anonymous journal entry about the most traumatic event in their lives. Lucy is shocked to receive a journal entry describing the events in the woods, what she and Paul saw and never told to anyone. She reaches out to Paul, ripping open old but never really healed wounds.

Together they face the mystery of what really happened back then, who killed whom, who knows and ultimately: is it possible that Camille survived the tragedy as well ? And if yes, where is she ? Where does she hide ?

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What I like about Coben are his characters which almost always are believable and seem all to real. In all the stand alone Coben novels I've read or listened to, the main character could have been the beginning of a new series after the Myron Bolitar series hasn't been continued in a long time.
Coben knows how to do it: he spins a huge cobweb, with millions of different angles,
which meet in the middle to feast on the freshly caught fly.
The Woods exceeds the the readers expectations by far.
Thrilling and gripping from the beginning to the end.

Note:
Harlan Coben recently had his novel Tell No One made into a movie. Visit the movie site here.

Excellent book,great read! 5 Stars

This book was hard to put down. The main character was sexy and one you got involved with. He was empathetic, sympathetic & powerful. A great, twisting mystery.

This book will keep you wanting more. I couldn't put it down.

This was fantastic!! I absolutely couldn't put it down. Can't wait to start another book by Coben!

My first Coben read - and I am sooo coming back for more.

County prosecutor Paul Copeland is still getting over the loss of his sister twenty years ago-the night she walked into the the woods, never to be seen again. Now, as Cope struggles to raise his six-year-old daughter alone and try one of the biggest cases of his career, evidence links him to a man who has been viciously murdered. The victim could be the boy who disappeared along with Cope's sister. And, as hope rises that his sister could still be alive, dangerous secrets from his family's past threaten to tear apart everything he's been trying to hold together...

this was an excellent read, I couldn't put the book down.