Coben really can tell a story. For writers, he's an education. Multiple POVs but you never get lost or disoriented. He leads you through the time and location changes very carefully. He also knows just how much backstory you want on the characters, and when to doll it out. A master, really. My own fiction writing will improve if I keep reading this man. No five stars because the plot was so freaking complicated, not all the rough edges folded together. I'd headed to the bookstore for another Coben.