There is no question it was a page-turner. I started it earlier today after downloading it to my kindle and it was finished by 4pm. I don't know exactly what it was but this story was more about curiousity than necessarily a cracking plot.
The book starts with local do-gooder Dan Mercer being setup in a sting which would seem to indicate he was having an inappropriate relationship with a 13 year old boy. Mercer's life is wrecked in a very public and humiliating manner on a sleaze TV show and his world falls apart... especially when it later appears that he may be implicated in other cases.
However when Wendy Tynes, the reporter who nailed Mercer witnesses him being killed, she begins looking more closely at Mercer and those around him. She finds out that he is not the only one to have been caught up in a high-profile scandal in the last year and the more she looks at it, the more obvious it is that she herself had played a part in convicting a man who may well have been innocent.
Now here is the rub - while you keep turning the pages to find out whodunit, you never feel like the book steps up a gear at all. Its like a plot unwinding but with no real tension points. This is a bit unusual considering a lot of Cobens' other books which always make for a grand finale.
Title: Caught
Author: Harlan Coben
ISBN: 978-0-525-95158-2
Rated the book a 3.5 out of 5.
You can buy the book from online retailer Loot for R226.00 (hardcover you save R55) or if you click on the book cover you can buy the book from online retailer Kalahari. Net
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