Book Review: I Will Find You by Harlan Coben

Harlan Coben has been highly recommended to me more than once – so when I learned he had a new book coming out, just around the time I needed something new to read, I jumped at the chance. I wasn’t disappointed!

The plot? A guy is in prison for murdering his young son. He’s been there for five years. He doesn’t think he’s guilty, but that doesn’t matter: all the evidence says that he is. That’s until someone shows up with something that convinces him he’s not. In fact – his son might not even be dead at all.

Coben writes in a very straight forward way and I love that. It’s not that it isn’t exciting and gripping, it’s more that he doesn’t put anything in between. There’s a sense of getting exactly what you’ve asked for, and that’s never not appreciated in my book.

The plot is exciting. Straight off the first page you’re pulled into a mystery that won’t let you go, and it seems impossible that our protagonist is going to find a way to figure it all out. Every step of the way you catch yourself thinking, “well, that’s it, it’s over now,” but then somehow it manages to carry on rolling. Coben is very good at that.

I enjoy trying to figure out books, especially mystery thrillers like this, and I did perhaps feel a tiny bit disappointed in the ending. I wanted there to be something more, something I hadn’t understood. That doesn’t make it a bad book or bad ending, it just means I’m hard to please.

As a first time Coben-reader, I’m sold. His writing reminds of Don Winslow or Lee Child, and I’m very glad for the recommendation. If you’re into mystery thrillers that will set your gears into motion, I’d happily pass the recommendation on.

Oh, and as always, I’d love it if yo checked out my own thrillers. The third in my dark crime series was recently released and it’s definitely something else.

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