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Play Dead

By Harlan Coben

By Harlan Coben

By Harlan Coben

By Harlan Coben

By Harlan Coben

By Harlan Coben

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Paperback $16.00

Dec 31, 2012 | ISBN 9780451239136

Mass Market Paperback $9.99

Sep 28, 2010 | ISBN 9780451231741

Ebook $9.99

Sep 28, 2010 | ISBN 9781101443613

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    About Play Dead

    The worlds of celebrity and sports are brilliantly dissected and turned upside down in the debut thriller from the bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger.

    Theirs was a marriage made in tabloid heaven, but no sooner had supermodel Laura Ayars and Celtics star David Baskin said “I do” than tragedy struck. While honeymooning on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, David went out for a swim—and never returned.

    Now widowed and grieving, Laura has a thousand questions and no answers. Her search for the truth will draw her into a web of lies and deception that stretches back thirty years—while on the court at Boston Garden, a rookie phenom makes his spectacular debut…

    About Play Dead

    The worlds of celebrity and sports are brilliantly dissected and turned upside down in the debut thriller from the bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger.

    Theirs was a marriage made in tabloid heaven, but no sooner had supermodel Laura Ayars and Celtics star David Baskin said “I do” than tragedy struck. While honeymooning on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, David went out for a swim—and never returned.

    Now widowed and grieving, Laura has a thousand questions and no answers. Her search for the truth will draw her into a web of lies and deception that stretches back thirty years—while on the court at Boston Garden, a rookie phenom makes his spectacular debut…

    About Play Dead

    The worlds of celebrity and sports are brilliantly dissected and turned upside down in the debut thriller from the bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger.

    Theirs was a marriage made in tabloid heaven, but no sooner had supermodel Laura Ayars and Celtics star David Baskin said “I do” than tragedy struck. While honeymooning on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, David went out for a swim—and never returned.

    Now widowed and grieving, Laura has a thousand questions and no answers. Her search for the truth will draw her into a web of lies and deception that stretches back thirty years—while on the court at Boston Garden, a rookie phenom makes his spectacular debut…

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    Gone for Good
    Tell No One
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    About Harlan Coben

    With more than seventy million books in print worldwide, Harlan Coben is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including the Myron Bolitar series and a series aimed at young adults featuring Myron’s nephew, Mickey… More about Harlan Coben

    About Harlan Coben

    With more than seventy million books in print worldwide, Harlan Coben is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including the Myron Bolitar series and a series aimed at young adults featuring Myron’s nephew, Mickey… More about Harlan Coben

    About Harlan Coben

    With more than seventy million books in print worldwide, Harlan Coben is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including the Myron Bolitar series and a series aimed at young adults featuring Myron’s nephew, Mickey… More about Harlan Coben

    Product Details

    Category: Crime Mysteries | Suspense & Thriller

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Dutton
    Dec 31, 2012 | 512 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780451239136

    Category: Crime Mysteries | Suspense & Thriller

    Mass Market Paperback | $9.99
    Published by Dutton
    Sep 28, 2010 | 560 Pages | 4-3/16 x 7-1/2 | ISBN 9780451231741

    Category: Crime Mysteries | Suspense & Thriller

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Dutton
    Sep 28, 2010 | 560 Pages | ISBN 9781101443613
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    Praise

    Praise for Play Dead

    “Coben…keeps the reader off balance with innovative story lines and diabolical bad guys.”—People

    “Truly surprising.”—Entertaiment Weekly

    “Kept me riveted in suspense and eager anticipation.”—New York Daily News

    More Praise for Harlan Coben

    “Coben is one of the best authors around at writing page-turning suspense…He has a knack for hooking readers right away and holding their interest as they zoom through his plots.”—Chicago Sun-Times

    “Nobody writes them better than Coben.”—Associated Press
     
    “What Coben does best is take readers into his characters’ hearts and minds.”—USA Today
     
    “Every time you think Harlan Coben couldn’t get any better at uncoiling a whipsnake of a page-turner, he comes along with a new novel that somehow surpasses its predecessor.”—The San Francisco Chronicle
     
    “Coben is the undisputed modern master of the suburban thriller.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer


     

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