Fool Me Once : A Novel (Paperback)

from maneekuhi

"Fool Me Once" (FMO) by Harlan Coben is a very good crime fiction novel with two very appealing features, both unique in today's glut of mysteries and crime stories. First, though the FMO plot eventually hinges on events of 20-30 years ago (yawn), it does so without using flashbacks! What, no fla...

from Darcia

I think Harlan Coben can see through walls, and somehow he incorporates that superpower into his storytelling. He's the kind of writer who keeps us slightly off balance. He ensures that we are in constant doubt of our assumptions, both of the characters and the story's direction. And that is inde...

from pegmcdaniel

Harlan Coben is a new author for me. I kept seeing his latest novel, Fool Me Once, on the best-seller list. It's a fast-paced, skillfully-plotted murder mystery/thriller that held my attention with its many twists and turns. The protagonist is Maya who has an interesting background as a military ...

from Twink

Harlan Coben's latest book is Fool Me Once. Coben returns to a format he does very well - a lead character thrust into an impossible situation that couldn't be possibly be true....could it? Special-ops vet Maya has returned home from war, suffering from PTSD. Her sister was murdered while she was...

from lcarter11

Library copy. Fool Me Once is probably the best murder mystery I've ever read. He could've tipped his hand early; he didn't. It could've been formulaic; it wasn't. It could've stayed a snarl of confusing facts that makes untangling Christmas lights look like untying a slip knot; it didn't. I didn...