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Just One Look
Author: Harlan Coben
Book Information
Publisher: Dutton Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Rating: 97

ISBN-13: 9780525947912 - ISBN-10: 0525947914
Publication Date: 4/26/2004
Pages: 352

Book Description:
Harlan Coben, author of the coast-to-coast bestseller No Second Chance, delivers an emotionally powerful thrill-ride of a novel that asks the question: How far would you go to protect your family?

An ordinary snapshot causes a mother’s world to unravel in an instant. After picking up her two young children from school, Grace Lawson looks through a newly developed set of photographs. She finds an odd one in the pack: a mysterious picture from perhaps twenty years ago, showing four strangers she can’t identify. But there is one face she recognizes—that of her husband, from before she knew him.

When her husband sees the photo that night, he leaves their home and drives off without explanation. She doesn’t know where he’s going, or why he’s leaving. Or if he’s ever coming back. Nor does she realize how dangerous the search for him will be. Because there are others interested in both her husband’s past and that photo, including Eric Wu: a fierce, silent killer who will not be stopped from finding his quarry, no matter who or what stands in his way.

Her world turned upside-down, filled with doubts about her herself and marriage, Grace must confront the dark corners of her own tragic past she struggles to learn the truth, find her husband, and save her family.


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Other Versions of this Book: Audio Cassette (Abridged), Audio CD (Abridged), Audio Cassette (Unabridged), Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover


Top Member Reviews

Mary W. (jane) from LOVELAND, OH wrote on 7/23/2006...

3 member(s) found this review helpful.

Oh my, what a thriller. Kept me on the edge all the way through. I couldn't put the book down. Will definitely have to read his other books. Hope they are as good as this one.

Kristen P. (KPfeifer) from OAKLAND PARK, FL wrote on 4/20/2007...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

Great mystery that kept you in suspense until the very end!

Nancy H. (NJ) from NASHWAUK, MN wrote on 3/7/2007...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

Very good reading from start to finish and keeps your interest till the end.

Amy J. (BoyzMommy) from FLINT, MI wrote on 8/16/2008...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

OMG!!! I had to finish the last 100 pages in one night, because I could not put it down until I knew the end. It was awesome. Each chapter ends just at that crucial moment and I had to keep reading. The twists and turns were compelling. Another great read by Coben!

Debbie B. (debs) from LOWELL, MA wrote on 10/7/2007...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

This was a book I couldn't put down. Every chapter layers the story with another puzzle piece, until the final chapter, which had some unexpected twists. Harlan Coben writes the "Myron Bolitar" series of suspense novels, which are fantastic! This book, while not one of the Bolitar series, makes some tiny references to characters or events in the Bolitar novels, and it's really fun to recognize them as such. (Don't worry, it's not at all necessary to have read the Bolitar novel, to enjoy this one!)

Mrs L R. (cyall8tr) from SPRING, TX wrote on 8/19/2007...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

IF YOU LIKE LABYRINTHS
This was my third Harlan Coben novel, after Tell No One and No Second Chance. Despite the thrills and chills, I couldn't quite connect with the characters. If you never identify with the main characters in some essential way, it's hard to care what ultimately happens to them. Some indefinable magnetism was missing this time. That's all I can blame. The plot and dialogue were as inventive as ever.

Barbara P. (bperk) from FORT PIERCE, FL wrote on 2/17/2007...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

This one kept me guessing til the end.

Becky B. from FARIBAULT, MN wrote on 2/13/2007...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

This book pulls you in. Imagine picking your photos up from the one hour photo and finding an old picture in with the new.

Joy K. (joylorraine) from WHITMORE LAKE, MI wrote on 1/25/2007...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Page-turner,easy,engrossing reading.

Debra B. from KENTWOOD, MI wrote on 11/7/2006...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

Excellent fast paced thriller


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Ashton A. (ashtonalverson) from JUPITER, FL wrote on 1/6/2008...


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Hollie B. from CUYAHOGA FLS, OH wrote on 5/30/2007...


An ordinary snapshot causes a suburban mother's world to unravel in an instant. When Grace Lawson picks up a newly developed set of family photographs, there is a picture that doesn't belong-a photo from at least twenty years ago. In the photo are five people: four Grace can't recognize and one that looks strikingly like her husband, Jack.
When Jack sees the photo, he denies he's the man in it. But later that night, while Grace lies in bed waiting, he drives away in the family's minivan without an explantion, taking the photograph with him.
Not knowing where he went or why he left, Grace struggles alone to sheild her children from Jack's absence in the days that follow. Each passing day brings only doubts about herself and her marriage and yet more unanswered questions about Jack, along with the realization that there are others looking for Jack and the photograph-including one, fierce, silent killer who will not be stopped from finding his quarry, no matter who or what stands in his way.
A great on the edge of your seat thriller.